Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-25
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TUESDAY, IoRNINGss MARCH Is, 1856.

Wee4ract the following article on the
''Irons Prodacs Of Ohio, 2 rom the Patent Office
Reports IN the National THERE'S
one remarkable errors species Of injustice of
tsnpEactissd By towns and cities, but which
should never be permits to find a place in the
reports from Government offcet advanced in
this ETtsele, showing q want Of geographical
knowledge, and eyineing Z disposition tO5buiId
np and confer honors upon one place, 70 the IN
jury and injustice of another. Probably tins
may grow out of q different definition of the
word ssrieif,.ity 81, The Patent Office nnayscor
ssder tue aodrishing town Of IPontou, in thesve-
y heart Of the non region, "a vicinity of Ports
mouth but We venture to assert that not one
citizen Of Ironton ca be found who viii agree
70 that construction Of the word. W might as
vel can IsFietta siciaita Of Wheeling
Wheeling Fieiaity Of Pittsburgh We have
no objection for Portsrnanth to have credit for
all the ts-mining, paanufa cturing, or ag-
cultural, &c.-she Is entitled to, hut we do OBJ
Jectto this thing Of r high Government office
picking up the trads, capital and enterprise Of
one city snd cody placing them to the credit of
smother, without even so much as saying g sby
your leave, 81" - clss -
IrOnton, Lawrence county, Ohio, is the chief
town in the iron district of Ohio Laid out but
fswysurs ago, it is now one of the principal
continuance Of her prosperity for ten years to
portsbesween this place and Cincinnati; and with
come, wiIL ontstip both Portsmouth and Mays
viilei trade and population.
Iaox PRoDucr IN OaIo.-The Commissioner of
the Patent Office has received from the Hon. o.
FsSt6cre, Of Ohio, statement recently forward
ed to that gentleman, from source in which he
places entire confidence, of the iron furnaces in
theEvicinity of, Portsmouth, Scioto county, in
that State, This statement embraces tho names
Of hfty-6se furnaces the names of those who
conduct them and their post Offices, the river
landing railroad station of each, the number of
miles from Portsmouth, &c. We find that the
distance from Portsmouth is from six to sixty
six miles nine being more than forty aud twenty
fasrless than thirty Fifly-three the products
Of the other two not being given) average ann,l-
ally two thousand tons, of 1868 per ton, of pig
Iron, making an aggregate Of loo, 600 tons. This,
at the present price of $35 per ton, amounts to
$3,T10,0o0. The consumption of -four, corn,
pork, bacon, and beef by the people employed in
eonne1ion with these furnaces is estimated at
1896, sos; while the sugar, coffee, molasses, to-
hacco lard lard oil, soap, candles rice, hay, oats
alcoholic liquors (of which little is said to be
used, together with clothing, household furni-
turs, medicine, and many other things, would
greatly augment the amount of expenditures.
When the prosperity ofthepeople in their indus
trial pursuits was ayowedly the dearly cherished
desire of theil legislators and rulers, facts like
these were regarded as fpractical importance to
the politician and statesman; and we doubt not
there still are many who take pleasure in their
recital and in the evidence thus Afforded of the
rapid though unnoticed growth of SO important
public interest