The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-01-26
MisceIHa m G o U $.
yIsSJSSIPPl VAL l. E Y.
IT'S RESOURCES.


W .o0, incubation ofthe Mississippi Valley
.,;a,,o,he most authentic estimates, cannot
acsO'' ors;, millions. The reader need hardly
IA" smcd that thepopulation extends over coun
zV W .o,iyoled in The extent and magnitude OF
~ .sr;,obIe waters, vol as in the fertility of
| .".ou The same tract OF countryis 'ndented by
,.n,, If such magnitude, as to entitle them to the
'.,,.,on ofnIan6 seas. The rapid increase for
r. ,,, b,Ifcentury affords conclusive evidence
,b,, this part of the United States is destined to
,n,,O populatlon, and TO furnish production, far
NJ ,,,oOd ali ordinary calcno'ions, 1t is somewhat
ri ,,ao0It to estimate, with accuracy the exports OF
#,hsWcst they pass through so many channels 10
" various places of destination
n Tbov reach New York by the Lakes, the
n Canal and the Hudson-PhiladeIph by the
,,n,s and railroads of Pennsy Observation-Disclosures
~ The Cumberland road, and Baltimore and Ohio
nitoad- Washington partly by the same route,
0ndby the Chesapeake and Ohio canal-Rlchmond
and Charleston by various routes across the noun
uns, New Orleans by the Mississippi and its trib-
ntaries.
From the best sources Of information, we arc sat
;s6ed that the annual value of western products,
transported through these various. channels, des.
tined either for the consumption OF other parts
othe Union, or for shipment abroad, must amount
to $50 900 0C0 These exports consist primo pally
orco,ton, tobacco, -four, wheat, pork, beef, hams
and bacon lard butter, fax seed, lnseed oil, corn
\ and corn meal, wood, beeswax, tallow, cheese,
a i've CATTLE horses, hogs, and snch manufac tured
n articles as cotton bagging, candles, whiskey
E codse, &c.
This amount of surplus produce employs, in its
transportation, large amount Of tonnage; in steam
boals, canal boats or lake vessels. The Mississip-
piand twenty two Gifts tributary streams furnish
ed more than eight thousand miles of steam pavI-
CATION, ,raversed by six hundred different boats.
For fiat and keel boats there are at least forty
thousand miles ofnavgation above New Orleans:
and when these rivers are connected with the nor
them lakes by canals, the western country will be
as much distinguished from every other region by
vwaer communication, as by its extent and fer
My.
Whenever this valley shall become popnlous
That all cannot find profitable employment in agri-
culture, the enterprise Of man need not Se a loss
for other occupations. Manufactures may here be
multiplied to any extent. Where water pow er
cannot he found sufficient to propel machinery, in
eIhauslible coal beds enable man to substitute the
power ofsteam. The billy pastures of Wisconsin
'ni Iowa will furnish wool in great abundance
@the sunny plains or The south now yield their
cotton, The mulberry too, 1ourshes no where in
greater !uxuriance. and thus may be furnished the
chief requisite for the manufacture of silk. The
IRON mountain OF Missouri, of which will last
through countless generations, offer facilities in
that branch Of manufactu, es no where elso to be
'ouNd The lead mines Of Illinois and Wisconsin
promise an abundant supply for all the arts that
require The use Of that metal. When we keep in
view The resources Of the west in these essential
raw materials and consider further, that lumber Of
every species abounds here, fom the pine Of the
"O'0e'n hills TO the cypress of the southern swamp
W. can set no limit to the progress Of arts ard man
a'a''O''s in hisValley Beacon.