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 and consequently consume five millions of the products of the industry of Pennsylva- nia, or one-ffth of ali the surplus products of the mines and manufactures of that great State, sold beyond her limits in lS40. The principal products of Texas will be cotton and sugar, and besides the iron used i'll all agricultural implements, as well as ill the manufactures consumed by an agricultural people, the use of iron in the cotton and su- gar mills is very great. There all the great iron apparatus and machinery connected with the cotton gin and press, and the iron boilers and kettles and grates and furnaces used in the making of sugar, is greater than in any other employment. Together with this. is the steam engine, now universally employed in making sugat, and being employed also in the ginning of cotton; and the iron that must be used by Texas, as she deyelopes her resources, be great indeed; and the question depending on the annexation, IS, whether Texas shall becor5e a part of our home market, or whether England, or Pennsylva- na and other States. shall supply her wants. There Is another fact which must lead to a vast consumption of coal in Texas, and that
 Is this that from the banks of the Red river to the coast of the gulfs excepting only the cross timbers, and somaaothcr points, chiefly along her streams, Texas is almost eAclu- siyely a prairie country; and yet, (what is not very usual, except in <northern Illinois, and some other portions of the West,) the soi of these prairies is ineXhaustibly fertile. From these causes, wood and fuel must be scarce in Texas, and the coal in Pennsylya- mia and other States must find a market there of almost incalculable value.
 We come next to the products of the forest: and here the middle States stand first, and then the New England and northwestern States. New ork here stands first, and then, in their order, Maine, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio From Clean point on the Alleg- hany river. in Ne@ ' ork, and down that stream through Pennsylvania, the lumber that now descends the Mississippi Is very con- siderable. and of which, including the pro- ducts from the forest from other quarters of the Union, Texas already took from Us, as the table shows, in 1S39 to the value of S157,- 474. The products of the fisheries of the whole Union, ill 1840, was S1l, ,008, of which New England produced $9,424, ,555, aud the middle States tol.970,030. Of the products of these fisheries, Texas already took, in 1899, tQ the value of S43 ,426, which, as Texas has no fisheries, must be vastly aug mented hereafter. By the treasury report of 1910, as exhibited in table Mo- 1, the number of vessels built that yearin the whole Union was S58; and here the New England States stood first, and then the middle and north- western States and Massachusetts was first, .l J, New ! ork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Connecticut. Now, by table No. }, ltis shown that the claarances of American ves- sels 10 Texas, from the United States, and of entries into the United States of American vessels from Texas, was, in the whole, III 1899, sos, being two-thirds of the whole number of vessels built in that year in the United States and our crews employed In navigating these American vessels thus en- ployed that year in our trade with Texas, were 4,727. The number of American yes sels which cleared for Texas in 1889, was greater than to any one of liity-seven out of siXty-three of all the enumerated countries
 3i tine wUrid. It was greater, also, than the whole aggregate number of our vessels which cleared that year for France, Spain, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Bel gium, and Scotland combined. Tine same disproporiion also exists as regards the crews, and also in the American vessels which en- tered the United States from Texas, and the crews employed. The same tables demon- strate that, of the foreign vessels which en- tered the United States from Texas, in 1859, eighteen only, out of l, ,l05, entered our ports from Texas and sixteen foreign vessels only cleared from the United States ill that year for Texas, out of 4,036; showing that our trade with Texas, in 1880, stood nearly upon the footing of our great coastWise trade, and was conducted almost exclusively in Amerl- can vessels. Having shown the largenumber of American crews concerned Ill the trade with Texas, and great amount of wages they must have earned, let Us now look at the States which made these profits By the cen sus of lSl0, the whole number of persons employed in navigating the ocean was 56,02l, of which number 42,l54 were from New England, and 9,713 from the middle States. And here Massachusetts stood first, and then Maine, and next, in their order, New ' ork, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Louisiana, and New Jersey. In looking, dloo- lo tlt 9tdlGS N HUI oftiiCd tiiN employed in this navigation, we find, by table Mo- 1, from the treasury report, that the New England States stood first, and then the mid dle States; and that the largest amount was owned by Massachusetts, and next, in their order, by New Y ork, Maine, Maryland, Penn sylvania, Louisiana, Connecticut, and New Jersey. When we consider the products of the fisheries consumed, and that will be con- sumed, by Texas and the tonnage and crews employed in that trade, the remuneration must greatly augment our mercantile marine, and thus enable it to supply our navy, when ever necessary, with an adequate number of skilful, brave, and hardy seamen, to defend, in war, our flag upon the sea. The number of persons employed in internal navigation, (ineluding our lakes, rivers, and canals, by the census of lS40, was 33,076; more than one-hall being from the middle States, and