Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-03-10
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INDUCEMENTS 10 IMMIoRAr1oN.


I. {, IL is 70 be hoped that the next Legis-
lature viii devote itself with single eye
70 the interests of Virginia. The State
may be made an empire, if true spirit
of enterprise be displayed by her legisla-
lures. And if a revival of public energy
be not exhibited under the new order OF
things, we know not when we shall look
for It. The natural advantages of Vir-
ginia are familiar to all her own people,
and when we refer to them here, it is not
for the information of Yirginians. but to
attract the attention of the people of 9th.
er States. In manufactures, the central
position and proximity of Virginia to Il
country which produces cotton, at the
same time, presents fine market for
manufactures, give her very great adj
vantages over the Northern manufac-
turing towns, which suffer from the ex-
pense and delay of the double transporta-
ton of the raw material to the North and
the manufactured fabric to the South.
Richmond, it has often been remarked,
ought to be the greatest manufacturing city
in the Union. Her water power is inexhaus-
tible, and so are the immense supplies of
coal and iron, which are found in her i'm
mediate neighborhood. All Virginia, in
deed, is peculiarly adapted for is manufac-
lures, the water being generally ditfused
over her territory, and rarely closed by
ice as to present no serious interruption
even in winter to the operation of ma
chinery. Her mountain pastures and her
climate are generally well adapted for the
raising of sheep In Vermont and other
wooll-growing regions of the North, the
flocks must be fed half the year, whilst
here almost throughout the whole year,
the sheep can find abundant means of
subsistence for themselves The CONNER
cial advantages of Virginia are as great
as her manufacturing. She presents the
most direct route for the trade of the
West to the seaboard. The waters of her
canals and rivers are rarely closed by ice,
whilst those of the North remain hermet-
ically sealed for four and FIVE months of
every year. The beautiful Ohio, for hun
dreds of miles, washes her Western bor-
derS, whilst she has a sea coast, not
equalled by that of any of her sister
States, and whose bays, inlets and creeks,
running deeply into her shores, present
every facility for navigation. The James,
the Potomac, and other navigable rivers,
rise in her mountains, and wind their
way in all directions through her terri
tory, Her agricultural resources are un-
bounded. Her soil brings forth every va
riety of production essential 10 the wants
and comfort Of man. Wheat, corn, to-
bacco, flax, hemp, rye, oats, potatoes,
flourish here in perfection. Lumber Of
the best quality, and incxhaustiblc in
quantity, is found in her forests. Her
mineral treasures are uncqualled by those
of any other State. Coal, iron, lead, salt,
gold, copper, gypsum, and every variety of
minerals, are found to an extent not APP
preached by any other Commonwealth in
the Union. Her climate is more health
ful than that of any Northern State. The
mountain and valley regions of Virginia
are the healthicst portions of the Amer
lean continent. And whilst, in some por
tons of the lowlands, the miasmatic in
huences cause sickness during the fall
months, yet these influences are confined
to particular localities, and arc not gen
eral in their character. Richmond, itself,
is the most salubrious city on the Allan
til coast, as it is shown by statistical ia
bles. Her climate seems to agree par
ticularly we'll with citizens who come here
from the Middle and New England States.
These facts should arrest the attention Of
cntcrprisng men who leave the old States
for the far West, and unwillingly pass by
much more desirable field of enterprise
and comfort at their own doors.
Richmond Despatch.