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to sixty thousand bales annually; she has a large lumber and grain
commerce; has a foundry, oil mills, machine shops and wagon factories
—in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. She
has two railways, and is the commercial centre of a broad and prosper-
ous region* Her gross receipts of money, annually, from all sources,
are placed by the New Orleans * Times-Democrat' at $4,000,000.