The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-01-13
Growth of western cities.

GrOWth OF western cities.
In connection with our remarks respecting /
the growth and business of our own thriving
city, it might not be out of place to notice
generally, the rise and advancement of some
of our sister cities, and the causes which
have entered largely into their rapid growth,
and permanent prosperity.
A city, like an individual, or a ration, in
order to become prosperous, wealthy and in
dependents. must draw upon its own natural
resources, and render every means legitimate
ly in Its own power, subservient to its various
wants and necessities. 7
Had the city of Pittsburgh been content,
simply to have been the receptacle of the
vast products Of her adjacent mountains. and
confined her commerce to the shipping OF
the crude material to other markets, for
manufacture and consumption, her limits
might yet have been confined to the narrow
bounds of a country town, as the result of SO
blind a policy. The early introduction of
manufactures. into that city has augmented
its size, aud extended its commercial srela-
lions until it has become one of the wealth
lest, and most prosperous cities in our coun-
try, in fact the American Manchester and
Sheffield, combined. Pittsburgh, aside from
slight advantages afforded by an eligible bust
ness location, owes her present greatness, to
the enterprising manner which her various
manufacturing interests have been pursued,
'front.' construction of Closeup or tack.
nail to steamboat, or Locomotive
Cincinnati has been equally successful,
and has experienced in her unprecedented
growth the saiutary effects Of an extensive
manufacturing interest, and like her agricultu-.
raj neighbors, has been mammoth producer
Of all the e5G .tife Nv ofKsnops, the
Foundry and the Factory, to exchange with
them for the products of the farm. ,,-..
THE city of louisville, too, has grown in
wealth, population and size more rapidly OF
late, than previous to the establishment oi
her extensive Boat yards, Founderys, and
other important manufacturing establish
ments, of which she can now boast a highly
respectable number, the aggregate produc
tons of which form an indispensable item il
her prosperity, and large amount of he
present business. sg a-
St. Louis, though great natural CONNER
cial metropolis may with great propriety b
ranked in the same category.
To come home to our own city, much ha
already been said and written upon the sui
,ieet0f manufacturing IN Evansville, and W
have reason to believe that this great elemeu
in the prosperity of other cities is already Ell
crossing the attention of our citizens wit
the earnestness and zeal which, its importanc
demands. Evansville. will require but lit
larger space fer years to receive aud 70
ward all the goods and produce that may
landed at our wharf, than is at present devo
ed to that purpose. Its present facilities f
trading, and merchandising generally, will r
quire but slight additions to render the
equal to the increase of business in that
partment, hence it is very obvious, that Il
growth of Evansville will be retarded, al
continue comparatively slow until its int
ests become varied, and the Mechanic a
Manufacturer encouraged and sustained.