The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-12-18

public improvements own
ed by the State, including
the estimated cost for com
p~Ieting Miami Extension
Canal, is S~l5,577,233 ia
The investments of the State
in the stock Of canal and
turnpike companies is 2,431 ,430 60
Loans OF credit to railroad
companies, 747,l35 90
Total investmento of State in
public works, 1885, 1876 90
The product Of this investment of the
State has amounted, the last year, to
$544,949 81. Some Of the public works
will doubtless be more productive in the
course of few years.
The present condition Of our resources.
commercial advantages and otherelements
of national wealth and prosperity, are in
a high degree fattering. The people o.
Ohio possess an area of territory, in a
temperate and salubrious climate, with a
fertile soil, containing a fraction over
100000 square miles, or 25,60O,000 acres
of which at least 20,O00,000 Of acres are
suitable for cultivation, and of which a.
bout 100000 of acres, including mead
ow and pasture lands, are now actually
cultivated. The actual value of the real
property in the State, with all its i'm
provements, cannot be less than 100000,
900, and the value Of all the personal
property and effects, not less than one
hundred and eighty millions of dollars
The population of the State IS about one
million eight hundred thousand. The in
~ternal commerce of the State is aided by
the facilities which are afforded by eight
hundred and ffty-three miles ofcanal, one
hundred miles Of railroad, in actual use al
this time, by one thousand one hundred
and twenty miles OF macadamised road.
ninety-onc miles of slackwater navigation,
and by oyer three hundred miles Of
streams, now actually nayigatcd, besides
four hundred and thirty-soyen miles Of
the Ohio river on the south and east, one
hundred aud eighty miles Of Lake Erie on
the north bordcroi The State. The value
of the products Of Ohio, during the lasr
ycar, as near as they can be ascertaineC
from the data within our reach, is as fol
lows:-.Agricultural, 45,3G2, 400; Manu-
features, II, 500, 500; Commerce, $500,
379; Mineral, 2,931,2I8; Forest and lum
Der, lDl3,O63; Fisheries, 1885; making
in all, S76,483, 1876.
The value o the products Of Ohio, OK
ported from the State, during the pas
year, have been about $4,000, 600 dollars
These estimates may not approach per
feet accuracy, but they are computed from
the most accurate means which at this
time exists for as~certainlng the true facts
THIS immcns, field for industry, enter.
) prise, human happiness and n~ationa.
greatness, has been created and opened
out upon a soil, which, but little over fifty
years ago, was covered with an unbrokcr
wilderness. The extensive, complex
and rapidly increasing interests Of the
people of Ohio, properly fall under youl
close and scrutanizing examination, ant
) call for the exercise of your wisdom, as
) the law-making power Of the State. The
} means, at this time, afforded for acquiring
FIJI! and accurate information Of the con.
dition and growth Of these great interests
in Ohio, are extremely imperfect and de-
~fective. Extensive statistical information
showing, annually, the condition Of the
agriculture, manufactures and trade, anC
the growth oflhe resources and wealth O.
the State, would not only be Of great util
ity to the people, in order to enable then
the better TO appreciate and understand
} correct Legislation, but it is of e~sscntia
Importance to the Legislature, in order
, that the extensive and complex interest o
, the people may be fully comprehcnded
which it is the purpose Of that body t
! protect and promote. llasty enactment
r and legislation, based upon loose, partia
and imperfect information, often prove
oppressive, and innicts wrong upon one
part ofcomnunity, when the desire is tt
advance the interest of all. The effect O
legislation is not easily TO be seen Away.
! at its first enactment; and laws apparently
harmless at first, may, in the lapse 0
many years, carry with them conscqucn
| ces Of potent and fearful magnitude, Fo
the purpose, therefore, of a more perfec
knowledge Of the results o four institution
1 and the workings of u laws upon tn,
4 interests of the people, | recommend t
7 your consideration the Importance of q
= doping measures for obtaining annual,
complete, compact, and we'll digested sta
~tistical statements of the various resour
ces and interests of the State. This oh
8 ject a be, to a very great extent, effect
= ed by the several township assessors, il
2 connection with their present annual du
ties.
A prudent foresight and vigilont regar,
for the cause of humanity, teach us til,
Importance of a%vailing ourselves of tn
8 opportunity afforded at a time of peac
/ and prosperity, to strengthen and forlif.
2 the foundations upon which the fabric O
MIR lihe rtinS rasts and IN erect barriers n