Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-09-06
From the New Orleans Bulletin
DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES

The suggestion that the upper parts Of the Mis-
slssipp Valley will in few years be the chief
seat Of American Manufactures, Is undoubtedly
well founded Already labor and capital to a
large amount employed in manufactures Of
Of various sorts in the west In Western Penn.
sylvania the upper part Of Western Virginia and
in the Eastern part of Ohio, manufactures Of cot
ton, wool, silk, paper, wooden and stone ware,
&c, sc, abound Within n circuit of twenty
miles from Mount Plealnt, OHIO, there are prob.
ably two hundred manufacturing establishments
Of different sorts and constantly increasing AT
Cuyahoga Falls, little village near Akron, OH
o. are some eight or ten immense paper mills, as
we'll as other manufactures. Ia Akron, nearly
all kinds ofmanufacures known to the country
arc carried on Cotton yarns and cotton and wool
en- fabrics Of different descriptions are rnnde there
are manufactures Of machine cards, oil mills, pa
per mills, and several of,he largest and most ad.
mirabIy arranged Touring mills, we venture to
say, m the world.
Steubenulle, in Ohio has for several years
been famous for the manufacture OF 1eaHs and 9TH
or wooden and worsod goods Evansville IS also
manufacturing town, and Dayton IN the Western
part ofthe State carries on great variety OF man.
uiacures. At Cincinnati, also, and a Coying,on,
and Louisville Ky, manufactures form large
and increasing business and IN some towns IN In.
dams, also are considerable manufacturing estab-
lishments The manufacturing inteTes, IN the
West as well as al the North received a great
impetus from the passage Of the present tariff law,
and from the general revival OF business which
followed that measure Steam aud Water power
are both used IN the West Many parts Of the
Ohio Valley abound with water privileges as
they are termed the streams which empty into
the Ohio generally being broken by rapids and
cascades. The canals, also, IN Pennsy lyania aud
Ohio, furnish an immense water power, no, near.
y all Of which Is yet occupied
Other parts Of the Valley abound in coal and
all parts IN wood of no use bat for combustion 70
,ha, steam power IS cheap The manufacturing
and mechanical pursuits Of that magnificent Val.
ley, az well as rs agriculture, mus lhefeore in
crease rapidly IN extent, variety and importance,
unless checked by unioward legislation OF some
other cause
f3ui 1t Is not to the Ohio valley that tho manu
iacures Of the Wes, ar.to 81 confined Already
indeed, On the upper Mississippi there are large
Touring mills and we expect not maDy years 10
elapse all the Yankee iraDsplauts thhhef his cot.
ton and ~oollea factories and the yariOut cDnlri-
yances for turning out "nouOns" which are SO nu-
merous ~ that busy country called Ysnkce land
On the high rolling prair'es Of the month west,
sheep are raised 70 very great adTanlsge and pro-
visions being % sbundan, and cheap will b.
presently found better 10 bring the factories 10 tbs
wool and The food than 70 take the wool and the
food 10 the factories On Rock river and on the
upper part ofihe Dcs Mones, and perhaps at the
Dies Moines rapils Of the Mississippi there will
probably be large manufacturing towns. lsieed,
Il may not b. aniic ipliing too much 10 erPsc,
large Touring mills aud WOODEN maluEc.0uFs c.
ven al the Falls ol 81 Anih0ny