New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-12-08
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HlMILToS, Buter county, Otio, 4NoV so iS'~'
II. GREELEY. ESQ.,: Dear Sn-The benefcent
effects OF the Tariff meet the eye Of the traveller
at every step OF his Journey from New-York west
ward Under lie auspices, a company at tiis
place have just completed work, giving TO 1fie'h
the whole power Of the Great Miami River over
a fall of % feet; and unless our rulers should
abandon the true policy Of the country, hahi,ol
;s destined ere long to become TO Cincinnati what
Lowell now is to Boston. Among Its many az.
yantapes for manufacturing for the MississiPH
Valley. the following are apparent at glance
|. TIE WATER Power IS ample, supject 10 10
;nterrnnt;on. accommodating itself admirably to
tho nlain or which it is displayed, and offered
cbean as the manufacturer could ask. Several
If The first engineers of the country have crltl-
cnlIv surveyed the work, and decided upon It's
merits.
Col. Long, of the United States Engineers in
his Army Report made to Congress last winter,
page l4ll after careful! Survey Of all The West
ern waters says: g For the accomplishment OF
the plan above considered, a company Of enter
prising gentlemen has been organized, who have
assumed the name and title of the Hamilton and
Rossville Hydraulic Company, and who, on the
completion of the works they have in hand, will
have achieved the command of more magnltl-
cent water power, together with more ample
scope Tor displaying it to advantage than has been
attained at any other point in the Western coun-
try"
Samuel Forrcr, Esq. long known as one of the
most distinguished Engineers in the employ OF
The State oil Ohio, having given to the work
personal examination, and having been for twenty
years familiar with Hamilton and the surrounding
country, reports That he is not acquainted with
any situation where there is power equal IN cx-
tent to this, wholly free from the liability to inter-
ruutiou of back water or other causes nearer than
some of the great falls in New York. And IN
relation to the location he adds: Z" Situated only
% mics from the Ohio river at Cincinnati, with
two turnpike roads and canal for means Of COM
municaton, and in the midst of the most fertile,
highly improved, and populous district In the State
OF Ohio, it seems 10 me that nothing more Is
wanting than the creation Of this water privilege
TO make Hamilton one of the choicest places Of
the Miami valley and consequently of the West,
for the capitalist or man of business to invest his
money, or to apply his industry and skill"
g Provisions and other necessaries OF lie are
abundant and cheap. What say our Eastern
Manufacturers to beef and pork at ( cents
pound, wheat at 70 cents, and Indian corn al
l21 cents per bushe, turkys at 20 cents ana
chickens at 8 cents each, eggs cents dozen,
apples at IS cents per bushc, and other fruits and
vegetables in the same proportion; fine bltumen-
Gus coal at 10 to IL cents a bushel, or hickory
wood at 81 50 per cord If that maxim of Pc
litical Economy be true that it is cheaper to take
the mouths TO the bread once for all than bread
to the mouths forever, then must Manufactures
and Population cluster around this great water
power.
3. CoTroN can be delivered at Hamilton from
vicksburg, Mississippi, as cheap as at New Or
leans, by the return boats that carry down the
redundant products of the clipper Country
Hamilton5 therefore, in Manufacturing for the
West and South West, will have the advantage
of Lowell.by so much as it costs to transport the
raw material from New Orleans to Lowell, and
the manufactured articles from Lowell to the
Valley; to which should be added the
cost of transportation from Ohio to Massachu-
sets Of tie pork, beef flour and other provisions
necessary to feed the operatives there. c. R. B.