Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-09-09

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partake Of our blessings. We have seen for.
eigners. residing from among others from the
same country, who had acquired an attach.
ment to our country, forgetting their former
language, and made the most respectable. en-.
lightened and liberal citizens.
We should be glad to see the time arrive
when these distinctions will not be known,
and when we will not see political commune
cations addressed to Irishmen, Englishmen,
and Germans, but when all will proudly adopt
the appeliaion of Americans.
PlNE LANDS AND PINE LuMBER.---The Onei.
da wig gives the following startling facts in
relaiqhto pine lumber and pine lands:
h1t is kQawn, we presume, to most persons,
that white, r pumpkin pine cannot be repro
duccdlor grown, as the underbrush or second
growth Of pine forests is always of a different
species of wood. Thus we can see at glance
that the country or state which is once strip
ned Of this valuable timber, can never again
see its soil clothed with the same. With this
fact before US, together with knowledge Of
the extent of the annual consumption of this
article, it can be no very difficult matter to arr
rive at pretty accurate conclusion as to the
time which the forests Of the United States
will supply the demands Of the country. A
few facts will show that we are not SO well
furnised as is generally supposed.
SIN all the states and territories connected
with the Union, there are, substantially, but
three states which have surplus Of white pine
to supply the enormous and increasing demand
which is yearly made by the other states and
territories. These are, New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Maine. The latter, (Maine,) with
her Twenty-Five hundred sa,c-mils can hardly
supply the New England States. and it is left
for New York and Pennsylvania to furnish the
nine lumber for the great valley of the Missis-
sippi, after deducting what is needed for the
consumption Of four millions Of enterprising
inhabitants within their own borders, We
speak Of course in general terms and in round
numbers, and do not mean 70 say that many Of
the states cannot supply their own wants TO
some extent for several years.
Allowing these statements to be true, we
arc now prepared for the question.
How long will the white pine forests in
these states supply the demand!
It has been ascertained beyond doubt, that
there were foated on our canals, the Hudson,
Mississippi, Susquehanna, and Delaware riv.
ers, during the last year, nearly sac hundred
and f)iy millions of square feet OF pine lumber!
To supply this quantity, over sixty-five thous-
and acres Of good pine lands have been strip
ped ofevery tree! If there are seven hundred
thousand acres, even at this rate, without any
increase, it will last only some ten or eleven
wears; and from facts that have been gathered
on this subject, we venture to say that there Is
MT ,vhite nine enough in the United States to
supply the present consnmption fifteen years!
If any one can controvert this conclusion by
facts, we should be glad to hear them.''
For the information Of the Wing, as well
as all others. we would state, that from the
best information which can be gained from
those acquainted with the country, there is
within our Territory, upwards Of six millions
of acres Of pine lands, not inferior to that Of
Mime, which can easily be brought to the
shores Of the Mississippi and RATED TO any
place on the river, and shipped up the small
er streams to places that have heretofore been
supplied from the Alleghaney. Judging from
the vast quantity Of pine lumber that has been
brought into the Mississippi valley from the
borders Of the Ohio, one would readily con-
clude that with the quantity used in their own
country, the pineries named in the article from
the Wing, would soon be exhausted. The
importance Of this acquisition to our Territory
will, before the expiration Of ten years, be
felt by other portions of the United States,
than those bordering Immediately on the Mis-.
sissippi, and before one year shallha claps-
ed, we shall feel its beneficial results. So
soon as the pressure that now pervades the
country, shall have passed away, capital that
has heretofore been used in scheme Of vision
ary speculation, will be turned to this object,
and must reap rich reward. The certainty
that capital invested in mills in the upper coun-
try, will be sure Of bringing high per cent.
will not be the only inducement for its invest.
ment in the numbering business, over other
schemes Of speculation. The great extent Of
country, yet in its infancy, to which lumber
can be taken from the Upper Mississippi, and
the high price, which from the great demand
at all times, must bring the highest price, and
always command the cash, and must con-
tinue for more than half a century. For four
or five years, large mill has been in opera
ton, and never it found necessary to raft
lumber further down the river than Galena,
and obtained from $35 to $40 per 1000 feet;
and indeed houses have been framed in Pitts
burgh and shipped to Prairie du Chen, sixty
miles above this place, besides immense guam.
titles which have been shipped to Galena and
this place:
In addition TO these pine lands, we would
inform the WhiO. there is immense quantities