Show nig bis cotton of the many cotton presses which I 1 were in operation in now new orleans sixty silly al years ago the avio principal ones were 0 the levo lavoo cotton press anil and the orleans cotton press they were large an aal I 1 massive buildings each occupying like 1119 most lost of tho the others a square of grousl grou nl the levee cotton press was built in III 1 1132 by a company bearing the I 1 n aine at a 1 cost of and was two stories stores hibb it compressed some 20 bales of cotton a 1 year the orleans press also fronting on the river occupied tin an area of feet by SOS th tin building nearly covering tile whole space th this s press was begun la ill and completed in 1835 18 35 cost ovet over compressed about bales per annum and could store bales of cotton its immense luense 10 ti gave it a very imposing from the river |