Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-06-15

the government. more lIdD the aiH"N"'
Of interest accruing on the national debt
which the national creditors are ANXIOUS
should be paid, and also returning to
the people a portion oil the money paid
BIZ them into fine treasury, to promote
and cherish industry, trade, commerce,
and manufactures, and these profits and
advantages of course, increasing with
the increasing growth and population OF
the country.
3d. It's advantages to agriculture
These consist not so much in the saving
in the cost of transportation, as in the
powerful stimulus it would afford to agTI-
cultural industry in the interior, Slthe m
creased value it would give to agrcul-
tural produce, and of course to the ge-
neral wealth OF the country. The DIN
culties under which the interior at pre-
sent labors for want of facilities OF trans
portation to the proper markets, are
iudescribable. Immense districts OF the
finest land in the world lay waste I'M
cultivated, because the produce will not
bear transportation unless converted
into spirit to brutalize mankind; for
ests of the finest timber, which might
be sources OF wealth, but cucumber the
ground; and often that which is in the
| greatest demand in one portion OF the
country, lies neglected and useless in
another
To illustrate The Importance of this
work to the interests of agriculture, the
Committee beg leave to add one other
statement BY the census tal<enin 1910,
sixteen years ago, IT appears that there
was manufactured in that year. IN lew
of the western counties OF Pennsylvania,
,496 barrels Of flour, and 1922 OF
whskey, making together, 410.I 50 bar
rels, amounting to 81, 26i tons, which
transported on the anal, at cents per
ton per mile, would cost S4S0,S46 ~;
but II it had been transported in wagons
to Atlantic markets at that time, it
would have cost upwards of five millions
of dollars, and would at present cost
more than 100000; thus it appears,
that saving of more than five millions
of dollars might have been produced by
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on the
| transportation to the Atlantic market,
OF the flour and whiskey alone, manu-
featured in 1910, in few counties 10
, the western part of Pennsylvania!
What then would be the infinite vari-
city of agricultural, mineral, and man
ufactured products, not only OF the
VI estern part of Pennsy lvania. but also
of West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, In
diana, and, in short. all the interior and
! Western portions Of the Union, border
ing upon the Ohio and lis tributary
streams2 To which might be added an
equal saving on the back loading of mer-
chandise, transported on the canal, for
consumption in the West.
4th. lis advantages as to MintS Of
One, Coal, and Qua7ics Of Stone
The fact is too notorious 10 require re-
petition, that the mountains and espe-
cially the region through which the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is located,
abounds with inexhaustble mines OF the
richest ore, and the finest coal in the
world, which lie hidden and useless in
the bowels of the earth. for want OF the
means Of transportation. and which
, might be made sources of unbounded
profit and accommodation, adding Til-
lions annually to the National resource,
giving profitable employment to labor.
stimulating industry, increasing general
wealth, supplying our country with
means alike necessary in peace and
war, and for which we are now depen-
dent on foreign countries, and annually
paying them heavy tribute. Millions
are annually sent abroad to feed and
employ foreign labor. manufacturing
and agricultural, TO the neglect and in
Jury OF our own, to procure what abcunds
in the utmost profusion at home buried,
and dormant in the bowels of the Earth,
and requiring nothing but the plastic
and viVifying influence of these facilities
of transportation to spring at once into
useful and prosperous activity, Welding
not only an abundant domestic supply,
but surplus for expectation.
5th. It's advantages in reference to
Villages, Iowns, Water Poper, and
.MannJactares.-These are objects not
unworthy of considera,ion-The facili
ty and Inducements offered throughout
the whole extent OF this canal, for the
building up of villages and towns, and
erecting an almost infinite variety of
mills, furnaces, FORCES, and other wa
ter works, thus creating, as if by ma
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