The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-04-29
r.IF DAILY DISPATCH.
.,,..-.,s.. iSiiIsSsSiHS. April %, 1851.


Taeeaay Msfnine, Apnl ~, loSo.
TAe West.
-. Ncrshwest including under this title only
-. s,.,ss Of Michigan, wisconsin and Iowa, and
n. territory Of Minnesota, contain one hundsed
- s,v sir millions d ssres population OF
80 ana .aA miles q railroad, besides many thou.
...a. - muea Of lake and river navigation The
-. .uhraA>d In this section h more than twice
:. IRA, a. the area Of Great Britain. The mum.
A.r of square miles of England, Scotland, Wales
.nd Trslsnd, n ial, 600 that Of the Northwest,
e.Io s1 !, n four times as large Is New England,
and ,,ould make thirt yone States a. large a.
M..s.chusssts. Il Is . land of great fertility,
ara can sustain N dense q population ~ any
nor,;on of the country. II settled as densely a.
M.s,achussstsis now, would contain population
Of thirtys six millions II Is curious fact that the
products Of one of these States, Iowa, sometimes
a, over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
This remote region has some large and flourish :;
Ing cities There Is Detroit, Michigan, with pop
ulation Of 4o.375, and valuation for taxation OF
Il, 10000; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with popnia'
ton Of 30 4ls, and valuation corresponding, and
other smaller. bu. rapidly growing cities, and
towns
The Central Hsss including the States of Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, which In 1900 did not contain
aftv.ave thousand white inhabitants, now have .
population Of 900 oo0 six thousand seven hundred
and twenty nine miles of railroad, and an actual
property valuation of not less than two thousand
ave hundred millions of dollars. Now these States
have nearly as many miles Of railroad the whole
Union had in 1850, and Illinois has more miles Of
railroad than the whole Unien had in 1s40.
Property valuation in Illinois fifteen years ago
was probably not fifty millions; It Is now s23O,Oo0,-
Ooo In Indiana, the Auditors reports show an in
crease from 1871 to 1854 Of over two hundred mil
lions Of dollars in the valuation of real and per-
sonal property In the State. In Ohio, the valuation
in 1910 was $ll2 326 1885, in 1885 1t was $500 ST.
3A. This is progress, is it moth
The cities of this section are some pumpkins
Chicago is not large some Cities but 1t is NOT
. small place In 1910 its population was only
$500; in 1855 its population was s5OOO! There
were more than twenty millions of bushels OF grain
received in the year 1855 in Chicago. This immense
amount may have been owing to the high prices
of last year. but the rapid settlement OF the coun'
try tributary to Chicago. it is believed will always
keep UP her grain trade to an enormous figure. IL
il Q curious fact that large share OF the real e.
tate Of Chicago is owned in Louisville, Kentucky,
and that Kentuckians are among the shrewdesf
and b0ldest spectators in the real estate OF the
West. Nothing would be said of Cincinnati, or OF
Louisville, in the neighboring State of Kentucky,
which now has s5 900 inhabitants.
In the far West, there are Missouri and Kansas,
with their 1880 square miles, and scarcely
barren acre in it Both contain coal beds that are
inexhaustibe for thousand years. In Missouri.
the great coal field covers $4,000 square miles
South of the Missouri river there 900 square
miles, filled with mines of iron, lead, "copper" CO.
bolt nickel the best flint sand for glass, and the
best porcelain clay. South of St. Louis are the
"lron Mountain" and Pilot Knob" which con-
tain iron enough to last the world forever The
city of St. Louis has now lbs 600 people In 1855
there were 10000 barrels of -four manufactured
there and over 400 600 received from other places,
squaling the -four trade of Philadelphia.
For 1856, the trade of the Western lakes has
been estimated a. high as five hundred millions of
dollars 10 rslue We CLEAN those facts from = lee
ture delivered recently In Boston. by r. 8. Elliott,
of St. Louis
This is only portion of the wonderful region of
country known 10 the West. What alandi live
only hang together q century longer, we will die
tate terms to the world. Nay, we shall be world
In ourselves.