New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-19


ter. vet the great majority will be sur
pIised to learn how many and how lmpor-
tqnt are the useful arts wherein our artisans
have no superior, while in some they have
10 equal. They will not at once cease buy
Ing Foreign Fabrics at prices considerably
HIGHER than are asked for better homemade
ones: but it will thenceforth be possible
TO sell tasteful and elegant American pro-
ducts without covering them with coun-
terfeit foreign marks, and cheating ta-
brioue d'Paris'-frauds rejecting alike on
the integrity of the seller and the sagaclty
mot to mention the Patriotism) of the
buyer.
But full and fair Exposition Of Amer
can MaBufae lures is not all that is required,
na near it. We consider quite as important
thorough and well classified display of the
Mineral and Vegetable Wealth of our Coun-
try-its immense though still undeveloped
resources. One of the American products
most earnestly inquired for at our hands IN
London last summer was the Iron Ore of Lake
| Superior. whereof much had been heard but
nothing seen in that quarter. Attic request
of one Of the most eminent among Brlt-
ish biologists, we wrote thence to friend
at Saul Ste. Marie, asking him to procure
tie needed specimens, which IN due season
were forwarded, aud now form a part Of the
collection of the British Institute of Prac-
teal Geology-Iow many American In
stitutes have yet seen fit to send to Lake
Superior for samples of its Iron
Decidedly the most complete and In
structive department in the London Exhi-
bition was that of British Ores and Nine
rails. Therein were arranged all the known
varieties of British Coal and Iron. with her
Tin, her Copper, her Lead, Plumbago, &c.
&c. You could see them as they lay IN
the mine, as they were brought to the sur
face, and in their several stages up to that
of perfect separation from all earthly matter
and fitness for immediate use. There are
few men so wise and none so Ignorant that
they mi ght not have spent week prohtably
in the department of British Ores and Mia
erals alone.
Now we need such department in our
Worlds Fair-need it far more than
Great Britain did, Our Ores are far richer.
more abundant and various than hers, but
we are far behind her in knowing how to
make the best use of them. We have
doubtless more and richer mines undlscov-
cred than are yet known; while those
whose mere existence is sufficiently obvi-
GUS. we are often precluded from proftably
working by their remoteness from popula-
tion, from means of cheap transportation,
from cheap food, &c. A Ship Canal at the
Saul Ste. Marie,-constructed seven years
ago. as it should have been,-would of itself
have added Millions of Dollars per annum
ere this to the value of our Mineral pro.
ducts thereby affording our Western Farm
ers market for their Grain far steadier and
better than all Europe can afford them
The art of mixing Ores, especially of
Iron. so as to produce far better qualities of
Metal than they would yield if melted sep
arately, is perfectly understood an England
and scarcely at all among u.s. Of course,
our great distances and imperfect means Of
transportation must for time impede our
operations in this line but there can be no
rational doubt that proper combinations of
Ores in smelling might now be made with
profit. And this is but one among many
things which observation, experiment and
practice have vet to teach our Iron makers.
We hope to see at our Exhibition speci-
mems from all the more important ore-beds
in the country-from those Of Pennsylva-
MIA, of Virginia, of Ohio, Tennessee and
Illinois-from the Iron Mountain of Mis-
souri,, from Lake Superior, from Northern
New-York, from Housatonic Valley, and
from wherever else ores possessing pecul-
lar properties are found. We hear that ten
per cent of the FIanklinite of New-Jersey,
mixed with any common ore, will give a
product worth fifty per cent more than the
Weld Of the commo ore alone would be;
let us see how much truth there is in this
statement, and how far this capacity for
profitable amalgamation extends. In short,
let us see how much good may be derived
from this Worlds Fair, and not suffer it
to run its course mere saunter for oilers
and show. case for Foreign Manufactur-
ers intent on undermining and crushing our
ewn.
These suggestions are made in no I'M