Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-10-22

er and finest descriptions Of iron is where
fuel is dearest, viz in The Eastern States,
where the pig metal is purchased from Bal
timore and Pennsylvania, and transported
with the coal, hundreds Of miles, and then
manufactured into the most costly articles,
and then, with :he accumulated cost OF trans
porting the coal and iron, returned 10 be sold
in the city, from which both were transport
ted. More money, it is believed, has been
paid in this way in freights than the entire
difference Of labor between this country and |
England. These establishments should all
be located upon the same spot, and under
the same roofs; and it becomes Baltmoreans
10 turn their attention 10 the subject.
The prosperity, the commercial and man
uacturing power, of Great Britain, is at,ribu.
ted by her most eminent political economists
| 10 her enormous consumption Of coal. In
| like manner, the business capacity of cities
| and towns, on this continent, advanlageously
| located, as is Baltimore will be indicated
| through her trafiic-ether for home use or
| shpment-in The article. Batimore's posi-
ton is such "as to become as large a coal
market as any other in the Union" Let
wise, liberal, and expansive policy be perse-
vered in, overlooking geographical lines, en-
couraging ,ha, which adds TO her W ealh, as
well as that Of the nation, and no limits can
well be fixed for the extent of her paricipa-
ton in this trade. The city is at present the
en,repot of our own extensive coal deposlies
which by the way, find employ ment in
uses that Anthracite is unsui,ed to-and will
likewise, be made the depot, as soon as the
Susquchanua Railroad TO Suubury is compile
ted, of large portion Of the production Of
the region from which the specimens alluded
10 were taken In fact, there is well groun-
dei reason for believing that our supply oil
Anthracite will hereafter have TO come from
: the middle region, and the operations lower
[ down the Susquehanna, altogether, instead oi
from the Northern or Wyoming Coal fields
, some so or 60 miles higher up the river.-
The coal from that region will now find OF
outlet 10 the Lakes, al higher prices, through
the North Branch Of the Pennsy vania Canal
which has just been completed, than can bt
, got III thls maIket.
t 1t may not be on, of place 10 mention here
that in anticipation Of a largely incrs ase'
, trade The Baltimore aid Susquehanna Rail
road Company procured an act Of the Mary
land Legislature last winter, to authorise The
construction of a railway from their presen
southern terminus 10 Canton, for the purpose
Of shipping coal the same as al Richmond OF
= the Delaware. That point affords the bes
If water TO be found in The Baltimore haEbor =
[ The fact Of the frgate Constellation, OF III
Navy having been built there, is evidenc
that it is well adapted 10 vessels OF the GIS
:. class. A coal depot at that point wonld pos
rs sess every facility necessary 10 the most eA
# ,ensvs coal trade directed TO any portion {
. the Atlantic coast-quite equal, if not supe
, ro, TO that of Philadelphia, uasmuch as III
Chesapeake Bay is IA more open water tha
the Delaware, and nth reader access iIoI
- the
n When our communications with the COZ
" depols on the Susquehanna are completed
m Baltimore must speedily become very in
Iv portant en,repo, tor the Pennsylvania COZ
m trade. The extent of this trade il is a'cel
now possible to estimate for the future, bu
iudging from the extensive preparations
!" the well organized companies III the midd
ne region, we are led to believe that 1t wi
reach, in less than two years, one mIlIt
T. tons. This will not seem impossible, wht
we state that there are NOW some 20 collie
x les in course of construction, or complete
,e. with run of some 50 ineXhauslbIo veins
lie the bes, coal; aegrega,ins a thickness Of 81
ey feet. At all events, whatever may be II
m tonnage, we can certainly use OF ship
se- that is sent 10 rs.