Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-01-13

est, and she has, besides, excelled the best
Of her sisters in the production OF wheat,
rye, iron, and coal.
Her population numbers 2,3ll ,7e6, be,
inu an increase Of almost 30 per cent
since 1910. According to this ratio Of
growth her people in 1870 will number
near 4,OOO,OOOO. Our debt Of forty mil
lions is, at this time, a charge on each IN"
habiiant of little over eighteen dellars !;
in 1870, according 10 this datum, 1t will
but little exceed ten. The present assessed
value of real and personal estate is S497,
O39649, showing an increase OF eighteen
per cent. since 1910, and according 10 this
ratio OF growth up TO 1870, it will amount
to the sum Of $675. .973, ,922. The debt OF
(ortv millions was a lien offs per cent. on
the assessabIe property OF 1910; on that OF
1870 it will be only FIVE per cent. andeIght
mills. But in the census report OF lSoC
the true value of the property oi The State
is esimoled al $722, ,4S6, 100; on this sum
our presen: debt is but fraction owe: live
and half per cent. Who can doubt the
solvency of such debtor!
Her productions Of wheat in 1910 was
1928, OFT bushels. In 1850, l5.482,-
l9I, icing an increase Of II per cent, at
which rate her yield for 1870 will exceed
twenty millions of bushels. The same
rdle Of increase is apparent in rye, corn,
oats, barley, buckwheat and live steck-
The census of 1910 shows a production
for that year Of 9S, ,395 tons of pig metal
that of 1850, is 2S5, 5,702, or an increase
oil 100 per cent. At this rate the yield of
1870 would be ,37l, ,37O tons. Wrought
iton in 1910 amounted 10 S7,244 tons-In
1850, it is 1872, 500 tons. On this datum
the production in 1870 would be 590,369
tons. Our woolIen manufactures for lS4O
were valued al 3l9 Is dollars and lor
1850 at S., ,32l ,S66, showing gain IN
ten years Of l29 per cent, and The enor
NOUS WELD by 1870 Of $l3,738,404. In
Gotten goods the increase has been about
six per cent, which ratio Of growth up 10
1870 would show production OF about sIX
millions of dollars.
The whole amount Of anthracite coal
mined and taken 10 market in 1910 was
SCI, 900 tons. In 1852 the product will
reach near five millions Of tons, being an
increase in twelve years Of 600 per cen;
This rate Of augmentation up 10 1870
would give the startling production OF over
forty five millions of tons, and yielding al
the present Philadelphia prices, the sum oI
one hundred and eighty millions Of dollars,
being more than treble the present reve'
nues OF the whole United States
This is a most gratifying picture, and
goes far TO prove what | have for some
time believed, that before The close Of The
present century Pennsylvania, IN point OF
wealth and real greatness will stand in adj
vance of all her Sister States.
There are yet few public enterprises
to be consummaled to render her triumph
complete. The North Branch Canal mus
be finished. The Allegheny mountains
must be passed without the use Of inclined
planes, and our metropolis must be con-
necled with the lakes, by means OF a rail-
road.
The trade OF the State is only second in
Importance to her agricultural and mineral
wealth Nature has assigned to Pennsyl
vania a most advantageous position Tor eX'
! ternal trade. Connected with the Atlantic
| the lakes and the western waters, and ex>
tending on both sides Of the Alleghenics
she iorms the great link between the Ems
and the West. The only obstacle 10 ar
artificial Union o. the great natural high
ways by which she is environed, is this in
terposing chain Of mountains, which cut
ting ;ransversely y across cur territory, dI
vides the tributary waters of the OHIO ant
the lakes from those Of the Atlantic. Blu
this mountainous range, we should rejoice
to know, upon close examination, is lounC
to present no insuperable impeachment. |
is to be crossed, within a short period, by
two railroads of reasonable gradients
The west will then communicate with tht
East without interruption from these noun
tain barriers.
But the railroad to Pittsburg should no
finish our internal connections. In add
lion to The railroads up the valleys OF TN
Susquehanna and The Schuylkill, now il
progress Of rapid construction, the bes
interests Of Pennsylvania require raiIwa.
to Erie. We need The shortest and bes
line Of communication between the lake
and the Atlantic at Philadelphia Th
considerations in favor Of such an improve
ment are TOO numerous TO be given in thl
document. The advantage which it woulC
possess in dstance-ln light grades-lr
uniformity Of guage, when tested by tn
laws OF trade, renders IFS superiority owe
any other avenue which now exists or iha
can hereafter be constructed between III
Atlantic and The lakes, fixed fact. Th
harbor at Erie is regarded by comPeten
engineers as the best on the lakes, an
from no other point can SO short a line b
made to the seaboard. Such medium c
communication would be of ineslimabl
,,ofua 70 r;a IN tho infermadia ata countrI