Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-07-24
Msnafacnsss at the West and South.

Why shoultl not manuf actures at the west aud
soath yield an ample return upon the capital in
vested? Could not the west manufacture its
| wool, and the south its cotton? a-a @&ta% .
a large company is organized in New Orleans
to manufacture the great southern staple, and the
New Orleans Bulletin advocates the scheme with
great ability. Here would be the producer, the
manufacturer and the consumer in close Prox'm-
ity. The nearer they arc together the better For
all concerned, other things being equal Why
! cannot coarse cotton goods be manufactured at
the south, where the mill would be in sight of the
cotton field, instead OF sending the cotton thou
sand miles from home and bringing 1t back in the
| shape of articles of domestic consumption? Why
not save the time, labor and cost Of transportation?
So in reference to the west: we have in Iowa,
fuel, water power aud labor in abundance, and
cheap enough TO manufacture all the wool that
could be grown on our prairies. Instead OF this
it is transported thousand miles to be manufac-
turcd into cloth, and then brought back to be
sumed. We are apt to think that we can make
more money by selling the wool TO The m,uurac-
t,rer's agent, and buying it back from him in the
shape of cloth or carpets than by manufacturing
these articles at home. We are too prone to think
our country is. only suited 10 producing wheat,
corn, beef, and pork, and that with the soil and
climate we possess, we should never turn our at
tention to manufactures. That we are highly ia
vored in these, is true. Bat it is equally true that
we should not look to them alone as the means Of
developing, national wealth, when in one favoca-
BILE season with good crop, the prices of all our
agricultural products (bcef and pork incluted)
are .fct, by reason of a market overStockcd. 1t
is literally trae that good crops for one season
throughout the west, produces a prostraion of
prices, that causes not merely imaginary but re-
al distress; anl paradoxical as it may seem, the
farmers best hope is often in partial failure of
the crops. This arises from an over proportion
Of the wealth and labor Of the country being en-
listed in one pursuit To be permanently pros
porous, it is necessary that there should be not
only division of labor, bat that the productive
industry Of the country be distributed in all the
channels Of trade where wealth IS accumulated.
Oar surplus products in the shape of beef, pork,
lard, corn, and flour now so to feed the operatives
of eastern manufactures and workshops; why
might they not be kept among US to feed mechan-
les here at home? Why not have market here
on the banks of the Mississippi for all our farms
can produce What is there TO prevent the es-
of manufactures among us for the
production of articles we now bring from dis
lance.
There are now growing up at Canncton, on
the banks Of the Ohio. in the midst os the coal
region of Indiana and Kentucky, establishments
for the manufacture OF cotton goods, heretofore
imported from the cast, which in few years will !
drive all others out Of the western market The |
advantages of that place for manufacturing estab-
ishments are: l, cheapness OF fuel of the best |
quality TO. manufacturing purposes; 2, cheap |
ness of breadstufs and all the means of living; ;.
ABILITIES of communication with the cotton grow
ne region, and the cheapacs5 Of transportation of
,otton from the south; !, ready and <heap access
o market for all their manufactures.
In the first of these advantages Iowa cannot vet .
compete with the region Of country about Can
'elton, because her resources are not vet devel-
ped. Bat the report Of the United States Cecil
'gist leaves little room TO doubt that oar state
bounds in coal, which when the wants of the
o'mtry require il will rapidly begin TO Be devcl-
ped. In all other respects, and particularly in
heapness of means of living, in which no other
onntry can compete with us. Iowa possesses all
ne facilities for manufacturing of any other re-
ion.