Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-09-29
From he .Nntional MieAigencer.


Since the last essay Of Franklin, he has
found, in The apperd;x Of the la;eReport Of the
Committee Of the House of Representatives, on
Roads and Canuls, uoon the Memorial OF The
Che.apeate and Ohio Canal Convention, so
many materials calculated TO illustrate the pro-
babie extent Of the future coal trade Of the Po-
tomac, 4 at he wi content himself, as he will
doubtless b, tier satisfy the public expec alton,
bye IN king his present number serve the pur-
pose oftheir dissemination.
He will merely pre- Is a very few remarks
which thew do not furnish. Tnat from Tbout
tyil or fifteen miles above the Blue Ridge,
or seventy FIVE from Georgetown, down 10 tn"
ide, a, well IS below the 'o"ntrv on both sides
of the Potomac and ar u . its r. butAry waters,
is already in con ition to nroti greatly hv a
substitution o fos i coa' for wcoj, in al do
nestic purpos S 1t is also no 'uou, its
tow IS shurg Frederick, Harrer's Ferry,
Chariestowr, Shephrrds'own, Martinshu
an ii gers own, VIII i, tim ., excl slvely use
this che per full And SO viii the comn,rv
every where within twe.vr or fifteen miles Of
the Potomac and the hesape Ike, wher the
IA mer sh Il discov, that a few acres Of hi,
wood la.d will yi'.d, il any cultivation, tie
me- as Of pure sing that fuel for the necessary
supply of viii he row keeps nne-6fh of his
est tie in OF rrwis, Improbable f"rest.
As al the stfamboa Of the Potomac and
the rivers of the Oh saprakc will consume this
commodity as vel. IS the towns and cities
heir shores the forty thousand inha sitants of
tie District Of Colrmbia, the severity thousand
If Bal more, and 'ery many thousand more: as
it has Ing since be ONE, through the applica-
ton of team power, the main spri Of every
b. snCh Of rnanufac ures; who can assign linz
q Il r
the Potonac, >hor, Of The quantities consumed
in the .'ties of Europe, Were lis cost not
less than that at which it may Ne supplied in
America; nor its use more va iou,?
The importance of its application, in the
sh pc of Coke, OF, after the sepa,s ton Of its
bitusu,n ana gazcs, to he manufacture Of Iron,
in cou ry tbonndins, not only with oai. but
with inexhaus, bic b rs of iron and lime
sion in The anne vicin " it will be reserved
for another es>vy to nfo'ce; as for this parti
cul use It, d large addition may be Conf.
den ly eXpe ted t the reve tie of he Easte!n
ST. ton Of III" Chcsap eake aad Ohio CaIai
In The vi'ini'y OF The 'hls, ron NO ks ut Eng-
land, which ar a. Cookbook cafe, o: The oey.
'rD, there were, five and lwcn,y yesfs ago. Nv,
iron bridges over that river, and An eatnr build
ing OF the same metal, on TOE SUNNI, Of an ad
ja'rnt hill, overlooking one ofthen:, in the town
of Br. zeey
The enclosures Of manv lots, and the sleep,
ers jos;s, and raj as Of msny houses in Eng,
land, were Their Constructed Of iron; as have
been, since, some at the lower stories Of GIas.
gov; and vessels designed fer the navigation Of
the Clyde, and this, in a country. where, thirty
yrars hstvrr, the ANIMAL MANUFACTURES Of iron
from The destruction OF the Brush forests. had
been reduced TO itss than 10000 tons IT. in
1903, the annual consumption. OF British itrn,
as respect table writer informs US, had risen
rom this low rbb tn 500. 900, wha, may now
ne presumed to be the quantity beth produced |
and consumed in that Island, where /, is still 80
much cheaper han m America, owing chiefly
% the substitution Of the coke Of fossil coal for