The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-10-22
rest of the Mississippi and yush Of the Afs.

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hut il must not be supposed that cur salt
" crks are confined 10 the interior. The
sea coas, pr senis some handsome establish |
nents. AT Cape Cpd AID The contiguous
places in Massachusetts,, the manufacture
vas first established From small begin
nings during the revolutionary war. it has
grown to IN important business, and it can
be extended to any degree tina, The demand
may authorize Near ag-Harbour on Long
Island, are also erected works to procure
salt from ocean water. In these, as in the
others. there is a most remarkable saving
OF labor. The tide gives the water first
hit; windmilis next raise it to it's requisite
height; spontaneous evaporation carries of
the fresh water, and disposes the saline
particles to crystalline. Thus. by process
OF uDcom mon ease, the ocean is n. adc to
surrender his salt This material is as
pure and elegant as ever was produc
ed. Millions OF bushels can be readily
prepared in this way, on our Atlantic bor-
der.
That you may see at oncs how this mat
ter stands I shall give you small abstract
OF the sal heretofore imported into the Uni-
ted States from the British dominious In
1902 for example, it amounted to .242, 500
bushels of Sc pounds, from Great Britain
only. according to the statements from our
treasury. 1t experienced an increase, from
year to year, until it gradually rose, in 1907,
to the enormous amount of 1855 8l7 bush
els In the former of those years, the guam
tty brought into our country from the Bri-
fish West Indies was 300 All bushels, ma
king hat year; IN the whole, from Inc Br.
tish dominions alone, 0z872O bushels.--..-
The sum total of the importations, in 1902.
was 8 564 COS bushels SO that the 'aggre
gate oi lie supply from the dominions of
Spain p frugal, and from all other foreign
places. amounted to no more than 1915 885
bushels. There was steady Importation,
also from the British West Indies. though
rather declining one. until 1907 That
year the amount of 1T was 59S75S bushels
which addedtto The qnahti,y brough, from
Great Hrtein a. te re mentioned, made
a" aggregate Of s l49 $40 bushels from the
British dominions clone. During the same
lasr quoted year, the ;otaI importation into
the United States was q Cyl 62g bushels -
and, Consequently, the qoantity derived
frem all the other countries. with which
81 merchants traded, amounted but to
522 O59 Such AN ascendency had you
~ his BUSINESS alone. say nothing of
the q"anti,y exported again only that it
varied from firth TO fourth of the whole
impor', annually Think what you have
lost
COAL
Our dependence upon your country has
been CARED so far, that the sea- ports of the
United States expected their regular quotas
OF fuel from Ireland, Scotland and England.
It is a curious and interesting TACT. that the
A lantic cities were indebted to Dublin and
4 kenny, Leith and Greenock, Newcastle
and Liverpool, for the means Of comfort &
business during the winter The coal from
Virginia, with aili,s excellence, was UNDER
valued, and neglected in comparison of the
British article. Our forests were disap
peariDg. and nature has distributed coal
with sparng hand through our maritime
region
1. i'terly, however. the discovery of coal
In Rhode Island has disclosed to US an unex
pected quarry of fuel This, added to the
increasing supplies from James River, would
supercsde all foreign Importation for the
iHtuts
But we have other treasures in store,
Pennsylvania contains within her bosom, e.
nongh OF mineral coal, for the most remote
posterity. These are the exhaustless ma
gazines of fuel. The yuniata and the oiher
waters of the wide spreading Susqueh ma,
as well as the Lehigh, which pours its s,i-
butary floods into the Delaware, visit dis
tricts underlaid with deep and extensive
beds OF that conbustible material. Its qua.
l'ties are various and adapted to the differ
ent purposes of the consumer. You will in
stantly perceive what employment of hands
there will be in digging the coal from its
mines near Huntingdon WiIkesbarre and
Bethlehem and conveying it around the
C. pes of Virginia and Delaware TO he nor :.
the n a d eastern states, for mi,igat ing the
severity OF the colder ATTITUDES. You will
please to observe. at the same time, a diff
erence between your coal mines and these
IN now mentioning. While yours require
vast expense and exertion to raise the coal
from great depths in the earth. and TO keen
the mines free from water, ours present the
. rata far above the level of the rivers, and
will merely require to be started on an in
chned plain, TO travel by its own gravity
from the verge of the mine to the hold of
the vessel Can you imagine any more
promising and productive occupation than
our Golfers and coasters would thus have d
Is there any thing that can more effectually
fasten and dove tail the union Our re-
sources are so abundant, that we shall he
happier in procuring fuel from our own
mines, than deriving it from you.s, subject.
as It ever must be. to the impositions, inter.
rapoons and veXations Of foreign com.
merce. Moreover, our domestic coal will
De brought to the consumer cheaper than
yours And you know. where fuel is cheap.
all the arts are carried on with correspon- =
ding thriftiness and ease.
ECONOMICUs.
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