Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-05-28

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",,s V,,oinia Kentucky and Connecticut As con-
IN her vast interests in iron, must be consnereo
he coal IN Pennsylvania, not only az an atucie o s
..,,d hnt ms consumed home in producing her Iron
40 number of tons thus consumed IN lo1u OF her own
noe being :}J5 903 tons, very nearly ne-'ou''h
~ 49,, NJ tho whole Union. Coal and IRON are scat
,ed in siilon throughout nearly Inc whole OF
ms, lyanla ard, as the markets LOT hef IRON are
aucnented, in the same proportion VIII increase 'he
consumption of The coal used IN producing 'na' IRON
a., in IS1O the amount of anthracite coal produced IN
80 whole Union was SOB 4S9 tons; OF which fennsy
v,nia produced $50 ESQ., nearly the whole. VI ntu
=, nous coal the total product OF The Union was - ou.
1oI bushels Of which Pennsylvania produced l,o%V
G5l or nearly onc-haf of the whole. Lei US observe
here also the remarkable fact that the three adaceh
states of Delaware, New Jersey. and New York. pro-
duced no coal either anthracite or btuminous ana
the future interest of Pennsylya as connected WIN
that great article becomes of transccndent lmpor
lance and this together with iron, and The manu-
features connected with them to determine the vaiue
IF her public works and fix her future destiny. Up to
certain point Of density, an agricultural State WIN
rich soil advances rapidly but when all the lands
are cleared and cultivated this augmentation ceases IL
il otherwise however, with State possessing through.
out nearly every portion, nexhaustlbe mines OF coal
and iron and wonderful adaptation 10 manufactures
There when the soil has been fully cultivated the de-
vclonmcnt of the mines and manufactures, ana I've
commerce and business connected with them, only fairly
begins Agriculture is limited by the number OF acres
bt for the products Of mines and manufactures, such
a. penns, lyana has within her boundaries there Is no
other limit than the markets she command and
This is not merely theory but is demonstrated ny The
comparative progress Of the various nations OF inc
world Look, then, al the great amount certainly mol
less than three hundred thousand doars-ol the pro-
duets of the industry of Pcnnsy lvana, consumed by
Texas in her infancy, with population OF less than
two hundred thousand in 1882 and when those products
were, 10 considerable extent, excluded by the then
existing Tariff Of Texas, and without which. she GER
t,iuy would then have consumed at least hall million
Of The products of the industry OF Pennsy yania, had
she been a State of the Union. But in ten years
succeeding lie remuneration, al the lowest rate
of procress of population TO the square mile of the
other new States, she would contain population OF
two millions and consequently consume 1--we NIL
lions of the products OF The industry OF pennsylvania,
or one fifth Of all The surplus products OF tha mines
and manufactures of that grent State sold beyond her
limits in 1910. The principal products oil lexas WIZ
be cotton and sugar, and besides the IRON used IN MI
agricultural implements, as well as IN Inc manufacture
consumed by agricultural people, the usa oil IRON
in the cotton AM sugar mills is very great. There all
he great iron apparatus and machinery connected WIN
the cotton gin and press and the iron boilers and ket
lies and CRATES and furnaces used IN the making oil
sugar, is greater than in any other employment To-
geher with this, s the steam engine, now universally
employed in making sugar and being employed alec IN
the ginning of cotton; and The IRON that must be useo
by Texas she deveupes her resources must be great
indeed and the ques ion depending on tile 'e-annexa-
/ whether
home market, and whether England, or Pennsy vana
and other States, shall supply her wants. There lie
another fact which must lead 10 vast consumption OF
coal in Texas and that is this that from the banks 81
the Red River to the coast Of the Gulf excepting only
the cross tmbers, and other points, chiefly along
her streams Texas almost exclusively prairie coun-
try and yet, what is not very usual except IN North
ern Illinois, and some other portions OF the west me
soil cf these prares is inc xhanstibly icfiile from
these causes wood end fuel must he in Texas,
rtpan oil -
6nd market there OF almost ,ncalculabe value.
We come next 10 the products OF the forest; and
here the middle States stand first and then the New
England and North Western States. New York here
stands first, and then in their order, Name, North Ca
roina PENNSYLVANIA, and Ohio. From 0ean point on
the Allegheny river i'll New York. and down that stream
through Penns, yana, the lumber that descencs the
Mississippi is very considerable, and Of which, lnclu
ding products from The forest from other quarters OF
the Union, Texas already took from us, as the table
shows in 1889, to The value Of SljI4Ii The product
of The fisheries of the whole Union, in $40, was SILL
99G COS, of which New England produced So ,555,
and the middle States Sl,970,030 OF the products Of
these fisheries Texas already took, in lc39, 10 the
value Of Si3 1885, which, Texas has no fisheries, must
be vastly augmented hereafter By the Treasury Re-
port of 1910, exhibited in table No H. the number OF
vessels built thai year in the whole Union SOS and
here the New England States stood first, and then the
middle and North " cstern States and Massachusetts
was first, and then, in their ORDER Maine. Maryland
nec;icut Now, by table No. ), il is shown, that the
clcaranccs Of American vessels 10 Texas, from the
United States, and Of entries into the United States OF
American vessels from Texas, was IN the whole, III
1899. Cos, being tGo-thirds Of the whole number OF
vessels built in that year the United States and
crews employed in navigating these American yes
sells, thus employed that year in our trade with
Texas, were l,727. The number Of American ves-
sells, which cleared for Texas in 1889, was greater
than TO any one Of ftv-scvcn out of sixty three of
al tha atnI nfrips nj
greater Also than the whole aggregate number Of
our vessels which cleared that year for France,
\ Spain, Russia, Prussia Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Belgium, and Scotland, combined. The same d'spfo-
portion also exists es regards the crews, and also
the American vessels which entered the United States
| from Texas, and the crews employed. The same Ia
bles demonstrate that of the foreign vessels which en-
tered the United States 1880, eighteen only, out OF
40o entered ports from Texas; and sixteen foreign
vessels only cleared from The United States in that year
for Texas, out of 1885, showing that our trade with
Texas, IN 1889, stood nearly upon the footing OF our
great coas,wise trade and conducted almost
clusivey in American vessels. Having shown the
large number of American concerned in the trade
with Texas and the great amount Of wages they must
have earned let look al the States which made
these profits. By the of $40, the whole num-
her of persons employed in navg"tng The ocean was
56,02l of which number IL, l54 were from New Eng
land, and 97l3 from the middle States And her,
Massachusetts stoad first and then Name, and next, in
their order New York, Connecticut, Pennsy a'ia R.
Island Louisiana, and New Jersey In looking, also,
10 The States which owned the tonnage employed in
this CATION find, by table No. a. from the Trea-
sury report, that the New England States stood first,
and then The middle States; and that the largest amount
was owned By Massachusetts, and next in their
order, by New York, Maine, Maryland, Pennsyva-
f MIA, Louisiana, Connecticut, and New Jersey =
When consider the products of the fisheries con-
sumsd, and that Will be consumed, by Texas, and the
tonnage and employed in that trnde, The re
annexation must greatly augment our mercantile ma
rine, and thus enable i, to supply orr navy when
ever necessary, with adequate number OF sk'llul
brave and hardy seamen defend IN war, our flag
upon the The number OF persons employed IN
internal navigation (ncludng our lakes rivers and
canns) by the Of 1910, was 33O7G; more than
one half being from the middle States and next the
States of the Northwest. The largest number was
from New York, and next, in their order, Pennsylva
n'o, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and Missouri Here,
The States which have constructed great canals, on
which transported the exchangenblc products OF
the Union, have vast interest in the enumeration of
Texas. Or these canals The grea! works IN n. York,
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