New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-29
JEFFERSON COUNTY.

Jefferson is one of the largest counties in the
State and quite wealthy. 1t is rich in hydraulic
power, in valuable timber, in an excellent soil,
in quarries of superior limestone for building
purposes, in beds of excellent clay for the man.
ufacture of brick and earthenware, it lies
upon Lake Ontario and st. Lawrence River,
is the terminus Of the almost completed Black
River Canal, has numerous Plank Roads, and
sends to market a large amount of butter,
cheese and pork, and considerable grain and
produce; and at the same time puts out the
fires of its own manufacturing establishments,
stops the looms in its factories, dimnishes the
population of its best agricultural towns, and
consents to the delay in the completion of it's
canal by usually casting the majority ofits votes
for that party which refuses to promote the
country's prosperity by Protection to Ameri-
can Industry and consequent improvement of
the Home Market, and which denies appro-
priatons to improve the facilities for Lake
Commerce.
The above statistics, in which the loss of
population is shown to be in agricultural towns,
and the increase principally in those where
manufacturing and trade is carried on, shows
plainly that Jefferson County needs Home
Market for its various products, which, from
their bulky and perishable nature cannot be
sent to the New-YOrk market. The opening
Of the Rome and WatertOwn Railroad, within
two years past, has increased their market, and
added to the price of such products by cheap
ening portation-thereby, we are in
formed that the value of farms in that portion
of Jefferson affected by the Railroad, at least
one third Now, if hundreds or thousands of
Mechanics and LabOrers could be set to work
in that County, it would create a market for
various articles not now marketable, and in
proportion to such increase of demand,
would add yet more value to farms and other
property. At present great proportion
of the active men-yOung men in par
ticular-resOrt to other fields of enterprise.
Were both Agriculture and Mechanical Labor
encouraged there, the greater share of those
who leave would be retained; and yet others
with skill and capital would be attracted there
to engage in business, which would produce
great increase in population and value of
property. In the above towns, where there is
decrease, Agriculture is pursued. In Water
town and Brownville, for instance, where the
increase is 3,486-nearly half of that in the
County-manufacturing exists, although Grip
pied by LocO-FOcoism-an the water-power
is almost unequaled.
Nothing further than the above statistics, ir
would seem, need be produced, to satisfy all
but the wilfully stupid that it is high time that
Wing documents fell in showers, as the leaves
of the trees fall, in the highways and door-yards
--in the villages and on the farms-in the back
settlements and remote towns of that County,
wherever there is a mechanic or laborer
employed in the various pursuits of American
Industry; or wherever farmer has an acre OF
ground upon which to raise produce for re-
munerative home market. And it is to be
hoped that the citizens of Jefferson will yet tri-
umphantly support that system which must lead
TO development of the natural wealth of that
County, and give ample employment to all
classes of its people.