Show p S GREAT IS NEW ORLEANS eorge George Havercamp one of the suc sue successful successful mining men of ot Provo has long longheld longheld longheld held to the belief that New Orleans will within the century become the greatest city on the American continent And nd no man who carefully follows the trav tray travels travels els of ot President Taft and his friends will feel teel inclined to look lightly at the prophecy Of course as matters now stand there is no measure cf of the possibilities This big Journey of ot the notables has proved first of aH nil things thins the total Inadequacy of the river to do the work demanded by the geographical position of the Gulf city Boats however fed ted with fuel cannot make schedule time They can cannot cannot cannot not be depended on as can railroad trains But they can be depended on OD to carry I grain rain and ore and every product of the nation and deliver it safely and cheaply at tidewater It Is down stream all aU aUthe the way from the Canada border ex exclaims exclaims 1 claims the enthusiastic Mr Haver Havercamp HaverI Havercamp camp And there Is lg a good deal In that manner of stating the case Without doubt the opening of the Panama canal Is going to make New Now Orleans much more important as a port d I than it has over eyer been in the past And AndI I whatever of surplus may come from the I factories and ind the fields of the north forthe for tor forthe the markets of the Asiatic world will willI I most cheaply pass through New Or Orleans Orleans OrI I leans Increase of freights will bring an in increase crease creS of railroad accommodation And Anc the city at the water portal of at the mid midsection midsection section of the great republic can hardly help a mighty advancement But the rest of the country will have I to Join in developing the Mississippi river There will be opposition to that plan on the part of ot the far east But President Taft believes it a work that should be accomplished and with his usual courage he has committed himself to the task of helping persuade the na nation nation tion to make its mighty river equal to the demands of the nation and of the age |