Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-10-13
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sented for developing the now inert re
T sources of this country, new impetu:
viii be given to business of every des.
cription, and soon a population viii be
numbered within the present corporate
limits of many thousands above its pre-
sent population.
The caviler may doubt this assertion;
if he has ever travelled through the
New England states he must have seen
that large cities have grown up with less
advantages than this place possesses,
often when surrounded with mountains
and barren plains, with scarcely level
land enough to place comfortable bull
dings. And well may the question be
asked, what has wrought the mighty
change? The answer is, their work
shops and manufactures; with them
they have grown up as if by magic.
Enterprise and industry united in over
coming all obstacles of nature, and built
up the workshops that deck New Eng
lands thousand hills and makes her val
leys blossom like the rose. This place
has every advantage that can reasona-
bly, be looked for to make it one of the
leading towns west of the Alleghanies.
Soon a railroad will be in operation,
connecting it with all the great leading
ways of the west, and will enable the
workshops and families connected with
them, to obtain the necessary supply of
iron and coal at as low rate as can be
had at any other town on the Ohio,
while the surrounding country in South
ern Ohio and adjacent Virginia, posses
ses soil as susceptible of high agri-
cultural improvement as the same ex-
tent Of territory in any portion of our
country, as the products exhibited at
the late Fair and the reports of crops
raised by agriculturalists will show
! All the products of the temperate zone
succeed well here, and immense quanti-
ties of -four, corn, pork, beef, beans,
oats, dried fruit, &c, are annually pur-
chased by produce dealers and shipped
to other markets to supply the wants of
the workshops of other places. With
all those facilities for carrying on work.
shops on the spot, to use up all the pro-
ducts of agriculture and the thousands
of tons of pig metal, produced in the
immediate vicinity, it wants but enter
prise and industry, with little capital,
to put them in successful operation
What advantages has Newark, in New
Jersey, that this place does not possess?
1t has the advantage of being within
hailing distance of maratime trade, and
this place has also the advantage Of be-
ing on the bank of one of the best nav
igable streams in America, upon which
her manufactured articles would get
into any market with as little expense
for transmission as from any other point.
The main reliance for power to propel
machinery in Newark is by steam-they
have water power, yet the main power
is created by steam. She is justly cele-
brated for her manufacture of hats,
caps, boots and shoes, needles, pins,
clothing, jewelry, cutlery, saddlery,
hardware, buggies, barOuches, coaches,
coach furniture, India rubber in all lis
various forms, patent leather, maleable
iron, steam engines and machinery, ho-
siery, wall paper, household furniture,
trunks, carpet bags, spectacles, axels,
in short every thing indispensable in the
business of life. The people think of
nothing but acknowledgements
turing is the all-absorbing thought.
The people, the workshops here can
at all times be supplied with raw mate
rial, breadstuffs, and fuel, cheaper than
they can be obtained in any of the nor
thern States. The western States sup
ply the -four. pork and beef for the
workshops of the New England States,
and New York. Let the supply be
withheld but for a season and those
shops would be closed up. Let any
person 90 into any of our stores and
they will see-the stock of domestics,
calicoes, cutlery, bonnets, hats, caps,
boots and shoes, axes, hoes, mirrors,
wooden goods of every description, have
unmistakable marks of having been
manufactured in New York and the New
England States.
With this state of things it is high
time our people were arousing to con-
sciousness of those facts, and of COM
ing to a determination to commence
manufacturing the various articles need
ed in the every day business of life
The few manufactures here in SUCCESS
full operation, are receiving greater div
idends from capital invested, than those
of ike character in any Of the New
England States. The capital invested
in the two paper mills, wOolen factory,
and other lesser manufactures, are turn
ing out princely dividends to their ow-
ners, and Just so it would turn out for
all others that might be established
In point of locality no site on the whole
Ohio has superior advantages. 1t is
high and dry, and never subject to over
flowing of the banks. In the highest
freshet of 1882, it was towering some
fourteen feet above the angry food,
while almost every other town on the
Ohio was inundated. Here there are
no sources of disease, all ponds and
stagnant pools of water have been re-
moved, their sites filed, streets graded
and macadamized, side walks graded
and paved or graveled. In every per-
sons countenance health and cheerful
ness are visible, and general welcome