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Title: The industries of New Orleans, her rank, resources, advantages, trade, commerce and manufactures, conditions of the past, present and future, representative industrial institutions, historical, descriptive, and statistical
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Morrison, Andrew
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Publisher: New Orleans, J. M. Elstner & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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f Lading issued from the office of the line at 82 Gravier (or on board thesteamers) signed over the principal railroads leading to all interior points, east, north,and west. The boats owned by this line are the Mary Houston, R. R. Springer,Guiding Star, Thorias Sherlock, Golden Rule, Golden City, Golden Crown, Paris C.Broxvn, U. P. Schenck, and Wyoming, all large, swift and comfortable steamers. Two■of these boats leave New Orleans each week. This line is so thoroughly establishedthat to say it is successful seems an unnecessary assurance. 76 The Industries of New Orleans. H. DUDLEY COLEMAN. Foundry and Plantation Machinery: Foundry and Machine Sliops, Erato, from Magnolia to Clarastreets; Office and Depot, No g Perdido street. The finest and presumably the largest machine works in the South, and, for thatraatter, fairly to be compared with any abroad, are those whore characteristics are brieflydelineated in this sketch. They were first established in the year 1S50, on their present
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location, by Willis P. Coleman, the father of the present public-minded and active pro-prietor. The circumstances attending their foundation were not striking, a moderatepatronage only attending the first efforts of the concern. It was not long, however, be-fore the high quality and enterprise of the institution began to be noted. Constant The Industries of New Orleans. 77 additions to the place were made from that time on, and the latest mechanical accessorieswere added, vintil now the works have the finest and most complete of plants. Thelathes, forging machinery, moulding shops, etc., ai-e on a scale commensurate with thesize and breadth of the operations to be performed. The immense engine which runs■all the apparatus in use, was made by the Works. It is a fine and elaborate piece ofmechanism. Among other manufactures of these magnificent shops may be mentionedSteam Engines, Boilers, Pumps, Pulleys, Shafting, Corn Mills, House Fronts and Col-umns, Saw Mills, Sugar Mills, Gearing

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