Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-05-22
INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.
Address of Gov. Wright, at Cannelton, May
1851.

snterprsing and useful elowcitizcn Hamilton smith,
promise made my part to visit your cltys TO
witness for myself the great advantages you have IN TINS
part of the State for manufacturing TO see the working
Of the spindle and loom in Indiana to view the labor oil
the mechanic and manufacturer by the SIDE oil ne nus
bandman.
pursuance of that PROMISE and the kind request OF
your fellswctzens, am present to-day at TINS Time
to encourage the enterprise so favorably commenced
among you.
have thrown together a few thoughts, which have
occurred to me- the hurry and excitement oil other du
ties. III they shall be calculated induce others, VINO
competent look into the great resources oil
State tend TO the Development oil the same or
in any way shall have tendency to arouse our people
their interests the encouragement oil labor TO
ehanpinn and diversilync more their pursuits, Will
have accomplished some good.
We have 10 Indiana 1000 square miles OF coal heds
In Fountain county, Coal Creek, in boring Tor SALT
coal seams have been found of the thickness OF eleven
feet In other parts of the State they found not so
thick. Oae cubic yard Of this cca IS nearly ton IN
weight. With profit Of but twenty-five cents per ton
the amount that would be realized will almost defy cal
cuation. Each square mile of tins coal is sufficient to
supply the amount of fuel annually consumed In the
Stale
Coal Is NOT our only minerals we have salt and iron in
abundance. have myself witnessed, in the county oil
Fountain, the making of twenty-five bushels oil the nm
est salt per day. by the labor OF two men ana morse
pump upon the old principle Of boiling in kettles, as we
make maple sugar. In Monroe county, and other por
tons OF the State salt has been made in former years.
In great abundance. The great salt wells oil kanawha
situated precisely such sand stone iormauon TIE
geological deposits oil stone underneath the coal
rs we have in Indiana. There cannot be doubt but
that we have any quantity oil salt, all oil wach would
be demonstrated by practical geoogst giving him the
time 10 make full geological, topograpical survey ana
minute examination of the State.
There have been found, in various parts oil the state
specimens of lead, zine, copper, and the pure metal
gold.
The deposites of sulphurate of iron found along
the State line from the falls Of the Ohio TO the north
west portion Of the State. 1t may be used Tor obtain
ing sulphur for producing uphurc acid copper
as, alum With the necessary information, many oil
our farmers have this article in such abundance on their
farms. that they could produce all the copperas OF alum
they need with less expense than the labor oil dln9 ten
miles to the county village to say nothing oil the cost oil
the article.
We have now more than half dozen iron furnaces, in
various parts Of Stae these locations selected at
random, citizens OF limited capital have gone to
work They aboring under the most Disadvantage
Gus circumstances; in many instances shipping the pig
metal Cincinnati Pittshurg. selling the same at
nominal price while the profit made 10y the capital
lists who prepare the article for market IN finished
We are in fact, trusting these great elements
of wealth to chance and individual enterprise, while
sister Sta es by the aid OF science are daily unfold
ing and hitherto unknown elements OF wealth.
II an individual desires TO locate avorite building on
tract of land, or the Government TO lound beneVo
lent institution military arsenal the scientific, eX
perienced and wise men of the land consulted
Shall we not exercise much judgment before the Ia
Dor and capital OF country is invested! We have
sent to the East map after map, by which we exhibit
the location of States, railroads. canals and the
extent of territory, the surplus Of farms, like
wis the speeches of great Upon these state
have borrowed million upon millions for this or
that enterprise the interest which is constant
drain upon the country
1t is now about the time that Indiana should send
abroad ull and scientific report, with map, II you
please, by known tn, capitalists. in whom conf
dence can be reposed. Upon this plain map we VIII
exhibit the great elements OF the wealth OF this country
tho depths of coal seams-the proper location Tor
iron urnaeeshe extent and value oil coal quar-
res-the worth Of exhaustess Quantities OF timber,
and the true character OF our soils.
With this map will 90 into the old world not to
ask them for their money, but invite them to come with
their capital and locate among We will 60 among
the Germans the Rhine, and show them that we have
all the elements essential to make their investments
cure and prOhtable We need not 90 so Tar we Will
with such a report successfully invite the capitalists OF
our own Eastern States to and locate among US,
aw-abiding and law observing people, where we
have not time to strike for higher wages-where mobs
and riots unknown, and where capital is
What will be population and resources when we
shall fully deveOpe these great elements OF our wealth
people nto these channeis2 Our rich soil will still
tlnue to yield its annual increase, while the bowels OF
the earth will give up from her dark depths her riches,
TO multiply the comforts and prosperity oil our people
Make the calculation, and ascertain the number of
men that will find employment when the iron, the coa,
and salt will be called into active play. We shall soon
as good any in the world for grinding the cane IN the
South. Already in many parts Of the country, where
the planters loud in their complaints of the scarcity
OF wood. How many railroad cars and steamboats,
would be supplied with coall How many cotton,
WOODEN, factories, steam mills, machine shops,
&c! Add to this central position in the Union,
commanding with the South, the other the
North, with interests blended by geographical geolOgi
cal and commercial ainities-steam be the element
in our future prosperity, banded shall be, by the
iron raicombustIon the incident, and coal being the
cheapest combustbe material, who will dare predict the
future location of the Birmingham of America out Of
Indiana
Much has been accomplished in the last fifty years. but
the work is scarcely commenced. Previous TO 1900
steamboat or railroad in existence Sixtyone years
ago three bales of cotton carried to Antwerp and
seized not being what they represented TO be-
Incredible that should be exported from the
New World Now we export more than fifty millions
annually. Ii we mistaken in the signs OF the
times shall increase the manufacture OF goods
and thereby gradually diminish the quantity of the
material exported. In the West have made some
advances in manufacturing. Not six years since the
crushed sugar then used manufactured in Boston
We now have the very best quality made at the sugar
redneries Of ST. Louis and Cincinnati which bids fair
surpass any article brought into market. In own
mills, &c. We are binding and mpletng annually
greater number Of superior boats than any State
in the Union, according to our population
Some 1000 men find employment in this branch Of bust
with a capital Of than 81 900 900. The prin
cPal part Of this branch of industry is in New Albany
and Jacksonville.
We shall soon be able to increase largely in this bust
ness, by the facilities with which coal
iron, and immense forests OF timber. We build OF
this noble river steam ships much in demand invent,
per cent cheaper than they New York, owing
the difference IN the cost OF material.
We have bagg:ng factories in operation running from
80 to 20 looms paper mills pIow factories car boiler
and lathe manufactures, machine shops &c.. g., and il
the capital OF the State, the labor of twenty mel
Is employed in making the common maple sugar tree .
our forests contribute the wealth Of tie country
successfully, IN making the peg and the last
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