Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-12-14
From tie Wisconsin Enquirer.
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The importance of securing to our own citizens
as far as practicable the benefits which NAV arise
from the products our of Territory, is evidently
subject worthy of notice. We have frequently had
our attention called to the importance OF the lead
trade, and the source OF profit which mig be
made could the trade be diverted from the Misss-
sippi to the Lakes. That a thoroughfare from
Milwaukee to the mineral region can be opened
upon which our mineral products can be transport
ted at more reasonable rates than by the present
route, Is subject of but little question; and that
such thoroughlare should be opened and estab-
llshed Is matter OF the greatest consequences
The miner Is subject to imposition and pecu-
latlon from Gaena and ST Louis stock iobbcrs and
spectators, who have the capacity of raising or
lowering as their interests may dictate, the price
which he shall receive for his lead and copper; and
most willingly would he seek another market for
the products of his labor, were one opened which
would prove equally profitable and less subject to
iluctnatlon. The amount expended in exporting
lead and copper, the greater portion of which NAV
by Judlclous management on the part OF our citi-
Zens be expended within our own territory, does
not fall much short OF one hundred thousand dol
lars annually Ihls IS worthy OF serious attention
ana determined action the part OF those who are
more immediately Interested in an enterprise which
may be so readily turned to the benefit of ALL At
present, the MINER pays tor the transportion of his
mineral from Mineral Point to Gdena, thirty cents
per hundred: he pays one dollar and sevcntv-fve
sents per hundred for the forwarding oft from Ga
lena to st. Louls;-thus it will be seen that, not
taking In account the Inconvenience and delay of
Shipment and the risk of transportation on the Mis-
slssppl, the exporter meets with expense of two
dollars aud five cents on every hundred weight of
mineral which he sends to market by the southern
route by the time that 1t arrives at St. Louis Lead
may be transported from the mnaral country to
Milwaukee, Southport, or Racine, as soon as the
trade shall be directed to either of these places at
the rate of scyeHtv-iyc cents per hundred and per
haps less This route is more direct to New York
more safe and attended with less expense and trou-
ble The teams which convey the mineral to the
lake ports may return loaded with such merchand-
ne as the west may require, at a much lower rate
than the same supplies can be obtanrd from the
south, with perhaps the exception of sugar. Thus
a trade may be opened between the east and the
west by which the interests of both VIII be ad-
Vanced and which will tend to the mutual good
feeling and desire to extend to our whole Terri
tory Dl@ benefits oil sectional advantages The mi
ners, even should this route prove only equally
profitable with the other, would rather see The
amount which Is necessary to eXpeui in sending
their mineral to market 90 to the benefit of orr it-
HcaS, than to have 1t expended among those who
have no feeling IN common with them and who
loose no opportunity OF specializing upon their la
Dor. We were recently in conversation with an
extensive miner from the west, and he assured us
that the veliest interest was felt among those with
whom he had coDversed upon the subject. and that
the policy OF abandoning the southern route met
with general appreciation. AS soon as thorouqh-
fare Is once opened, the east may calculate uDOn
the western trade, and the west will avail itself of
the advantages of an eastern market We hope
that our citizens viii extend this enterprise eve
ry and which may be necessary to secure its perm
anent establishment: 1t Is an object which deserves
attention., and one which needs only to be consid.
cred to be appreciated and avaIIed