The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-17
THE REPUBLIC.
WASHINGTON:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. II, 1858.


The Iron interest
The annexed article from the Philadelphia
Taov;r.r vill show the immense demand which
the prosperity of the counsry has created for
domestic iron. 1t seems that the call for rail
road iron alone will occupy the resources OF the
iron interest: H4. SEA rd
"THK Iron TRApE-THE REsouRcEs of PENN
misunderstanding to calculationin the Fits
burgh Post, the iron manufacturers OF this coun-
try have a sure demand before them of 5000 900,
600 of various fabrics to be turned out of their
manufactories-a demand that will require all,
and more than all, their capacity to supply it fast
enough. This may be an extravagant or an ex-
apperated statement, but it is calculated, never
theless, to show the increasing importance of the
iron trade and manufacture, in which Pennsyl-
vania is 80 deeply interested. California has her
god and Pennsylvania has her iron and coal;
and these latter will, in the end, prove as vaua-
BILE, and probably more useful, than the former.
Our hourishing Commonwealth not only teens
with iron, but with all the necessary accom-
paniments for its manufacture, and to an ex-
tent calculated to battle all ordinary estimates.
Nor have we to make long and perilous jour
news by land. dangerous voyages by sea, to
find the storehouses of this immense treasure
They are scattered throughout the State, and
the very rails We make afford facilities for car
rying our roads still further into the interior.
The spirit of railroad improvement SO enhances
the demand for rails, that in some sense it makes
tariff itself. The iron works cannot be stopped
under existing circumstances, SO active is the de-
mand. Another effect, too, is to invite compa-
MES from all quarters to locate their establish
ments in Pennsylvania. Valuable lands which
contain iron ore, and which in close proximity
to railroads or canals, should be worked at once,
and thus the mineral wealth which has been hid
den for ages should be brought to light, and be
made available for the useful purposes of civiza-
ton. The Montour Works are, we understand,
overwhelmed with applications for rails In the
immediate vicinity immense beds of iron, coal
and lne and these vast treasures should be per-
mtted to repose there no longer undisturbed
The public at large may be said to have deep
interest in developing the iron wealth of our no
BILE old Commonwealth. 1t is, moreover, passing
strange that our neighbors of New York, with
their activity and zeal, should pass far down
into Maryland, and incur vast expense in
constructing canal to carry their coal, when
in Pennsylvania the best kind of mineral lands
may be found everywhere skirting our great
lines of improvement. The time for enterprise
has arrived, and the iron ore of Pennsylvania
must be dug up, and indirectly coined into gold
The necessities of the nation demand the move
ment, while the prospect of remuneration, if half
be true that is stated by the Pittsburgh Post, is
every way encouraging. England cannot supply
lis now in time and at fair rates, neither can our
own mines. Long lines of railroad intercourse
must necessarily be postponed, if our capitalists
do not enter moro extensively into this thriving
trade. In this connexion we invite attention to
the subjoned statement, which exhibits the pro-
duction of iron in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain during the year 1852: