Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-01-08

Our DEBT oil qO,OOU,OJO Is; al tnls uUle,
charge on each inhabitant OF little over
eighteen dollars in 1870, according 10 this
datum, 1t will but little exceed ten. The
present assessed value of real and personal
estate is S497, ,o3a ,649, showing an increase
of 1S per cent. since 1910, aud according
10 this ratio of growth up 10 1870, il will
amount TO the sum of S675,973, ,922. The
debt Of forty millions was a lien OF per
cent. on the assessable property Of 1910 on
that Of 1870 it will be only per cent, and
8 mills. But in the census report OF 1850
the true value Of the property Of the State is
estimated at S733, ,486, 100 ; on this sum our
present debt is but fraction over 81 per
cent. Who can doubt the solvency Of such
debtor
Her productions of whea, in 1910 was
l3,2I3,O77 bushels. In 1850, I5,4S2 1911,
being an increase of II per cent, at which
rate her yield for 1870 will exceed 2o,000,-
600 of bushels The same rate of increase
is apparent in rye, corn, oats, barley, buck
| wheat and live stock. The census of 1910
shows production for that year Of % 395
tons Of pig melal-ihat Of 1850, is 2S5, ,702,
or an increase Of 100 per cent AT this
rate the yield Of 1870 would be l,371,370
tons. Wrought iron in 1910 amounted TO
S7,244 tons-n 1850 it is 1872, 500 tons
On this datum the production of 1870 would
be $50, 369 tons. Our wolen manufactures
for 1910 were valued al S2,3l9,16l, and for
1850 at S5,S2l:S66, showing gain in 10
years of 1919 per cent, and the enormous
yield by 1870 OF Sl3, ,73s, ,4O4. In ,r ton
goods the increase has been about per
cent which ratio of growth up TO 1870
would show a production Of about $4,000
900.
The whole amount of anthracite coal min.
ed and taken to market in 1910 was S67 900
ions. In 1853 The product will reach near
100000 OF tons, being an increase IN -
years of 600 per cent. This rate of aug
menla,ion up to 1870 would give the start
ling production OF over 100000 900 of tons,
and yielding al the present Philadelphia pri-
ces, the sum of $3.50 600, 900 being more
than treble the present revenues of the
whole United States.
This is more gratifying picture, and goes
far TO prove what have for some time be-
lieved, that before the present century Penn
sylvania, in point of wealth and real great
ness will stand in advance Of all her Sister
States
There are yet few public enterprises 10
be consummaied TO render her triumph com
pleie. The North Branch canal must be fin
Ti>hed The Allegheny mountains must be
passed without the use of inclined planes
and our metropolis must be connected with
the lakes, by means Of railroad.
[ln regard TO our rail road Improvements
and the trade of the State, he proceeds 10
say:l
The trade of the State is only second in
importance 10 her agricultural and mineral
wealth. Nature has assigned TO Peun> Iva
MA most advantage ons position for eNier-
nal trade. Connected with The Atlantic. the
lakes and the waters, and extending on both
sides of the Aleo ohenies, she forms The great
link between the East and the West. The
only obstacle TO an artificial Union Of the
great natural highways by which she is envi-
roned, is this iuterposing chain Of mountains,
which cutting iransversely across cur rprr to.
ry divides our tributary waters OF the Chic &
the lakes from those of the Atlantic.
But this mountainous range, we should
rejoice 10 know upon colse eXamina ton, is
, found to present no in superable impeachment
II is 10 be crossed within a short period by
two railroads of reasonable gradients. The
west will then communicate with the Eas'
without interruption from these mountain
barriers
Bu, the rail roads 10 Pitlsburs should no,
, finish our internal connections. In addition
f 10 the rail roads up The valleys of the Sus.
a quehanna and the Schuylkill, now in pro-
, gress of rapid construction, the best interest:
, of Pennsy ylvania require a railway TO Erie.--
/ We need the shortest and best line of com
|, municalion between the lakes and the AT.
lan,ic at Philadelphia. The consideration!
in favor OF an improvement are too numer
n Gus 10 be given in this document. The adj
= vantage which it would possess in dstanc,
in light grades-in uniformity of guage
when tested BY The laws of trade, renders it.
superiority over any other avenue which
u now exists or that can hereafter be con
slructed between the Atlantic and the lakes
). fixed fact. The harbor al Erie is regarded
j. by competent engineers as the best on th
;. lakes, and from no other point can so shoT
o a line be made TO the seaboard. Such me
i dunn of communication would be Of inesli
- mable value 10 Erie, 10 the iniermediai
II country and TO our Stale metropolis. Ou
e citizens, by neSleclng or deierring The con
e sinction OF this work, may subject them
c selves TO The charge of sighting the beneG
IS cence of nature is not cooperating with he
e great designs.
$ The trade of the West, and the lakes, ma
i. by this means be secured 10 Philadelphi;
g No time however, should be lost in he cor
1t sruciion of this great highway. Delay ma
It lessen the chances of snccess, whilst it wi
is certainly afford opportunity 10 our rivals
al form and cement business connections hic
e. may not be readily seve red in the future
n. Nor are we 10 look at these internal advantj
" ges alone. Nothing can do more 10 angmer
at The foreign trade of Philadelphia, than a
er rect avenue 10 The lakes. Her growing con
in merce would invite the construction
5, steamers 10 convey directly 10 her own po
~ the merchandise which she would then
le called upon 10 supply 10 the boundle
r. West Great as are her natural advantage
I'd no observing man can fail to see, that d
81, prived Of the sustaining arm OF a foreig
lis commerce, she cannot attain TO that dsl
lie gushed position, as a mart, which nature il
tended she should occupy
lie He then concludes by reference 10 Il
20 subject of education and the common schoo
of the military affairs of the State, which a
er in bad condilion-lhe erection Of mon
Id ment in Independence Square in Philadelph
u 10 the grounds around the Stale Arsenal
20 the necessity of altering the laws in relali
d. to the passage of slaves through the State
is the bad policy Of postponing appropriate
Isl bills to near the close Of the Legislature a
'is closes by saying he will cheeTiully coopera
an with the Assembly, in the adoption of
in | I,ula,al IN pronpota The welfa