Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-04-22
From the Eagle and Standard, Watertown.
MAUMEE VALLEY IN OHIO

fertility of the soil, facilities of getting to
market, home demand for produce (oc-
casoned bySits being the great thorough
fare between the Eastern and Western
Sta.es) and its relative situation to both
the cities Of New Orleans and New York
renders it highly desirable. Had not
the lands in this section been kept out of
market in consequence of the unsettled
state of the boundary question between
Ohio and Michigan they would now be
as thickly settled as any part of Ohio.
The line dividing the two states is now
established, the Wabash and, Erie Canal
lands are in market, and the Canals will
be completed in about two years, which
must preclude any suspicion Of exagger-
alton when it is asserted that this vicini-
ty will be densely settled in the course
of five years, and the lands be equal in
value 10 any others in the United States
for agricultural purposes.
1t is we'll worthy the attention TO look
carefully and attentively at a map ofthe
United States, and notice how peculiar
ly situated is the cities Of Maumee or
Miami on one side and Perrysburgh on
the other of the Maumee river at the head
of steamboat and schooner navigation,
and compare the business of those pla-
ces in their infancy with whatswill be
done upon the. completion of the Miami
and the Wabash and Erie Canals, the for
mer being the outlet of the immense bu-
siness of that western metropolis Gin
cinnatD and the latter the outlet for the
produce of Indiana and southern part Of
illinois. So long as business is done
and shipments of produce to New York
are made on equally favorable terms at
the head of navigation, that place must
monopolize the business, and in the
end overcome. all opposition, although
the mouth of the river may main.
tain respectable standing for time
with the aid of a foreign speculative
capital. 1t is only necessary to look at
the different rivers in the interior of the
United States where there has been com
petition between the mouth and head of
navigation, TO satisfy any disinterested
man which has the advantage and which
must get the ascendancy. Its to the in
terror country that the business point on
the Maumee river must look too for sup
port. The head OF navigation being the
most contiguous to the country in the
rear and around it the produce will not
pass by it subject to additional expense
of Canal toll, transportation and loss Of
time. As an evidence Of the character
of the business men at Maumee and Per-
rysburgh, it is only necessary to state
that they last summer built about 5000
feet of dock, four spacious warehouses
one public house Of brick, cost 100000
three churches, numerous buildings, yes.
sells, Steam Mills, &c. and that they are
building this winter numerous buildings,
nine schooners, and one steamboat of 400
tons surprising in this latter business any
of the older ports on lake Erie.
1t is not possible for there to be in
any event exceeding two places of any
consequence from the mouth of the riv-
er to the head of navigation, the latter TO
be one, and the mouth of the river the
other, although there maybe on paper
and in the Imagination of spectators,
for, as yet there is no substantial appear
ance of any others, and no business man
will think of locating elsewhere. Tole-
do and Manhattan are close together at
the mouth of the river, and Maumee and
Perrysburgh together at the head of
navigation, and will in short time form
(supposing them to divide the business
equally but two places commanding a
much greater amount of business than
any other western city now in existence,
because they will have enough greater
extent Of country to furnish il as will ap-
pear by reference to a map of the Uni
ted States.
Lots are offered at very reasonable
prices and terms, although at an ad-
vance from last years prices,) at Mau-
NEE and Perrysburgh to business men
for business purposes, certainly not cx-
ceeding one fourth what is asked in other
western places pulled into notice and
trifing importance in comparison to
this. This may be attributed to the de-
termination Of the proprietors to keep
out speculation, by requiring improve.
ments, which. .rulethey have heretofore
adopted.
1t should be generally known that this
point must soon cut off from Detroit
much of the western travel, and from
Cleveland the important business Of Gin
cinnati which is the occasion Of numer-
Gus misrepresentation from persons in
terested at those two prominent places.
1t is certainly at the head Of naviga-
ton of one Of the most beautiful loca-