Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-05-15

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But the personally il greatly under-vaiued anu ,a'
aggregate wealth cf the State may be safely es''a'o
a. exceeding $50 millions II 1851 the MAXIMUM .,
innate ono m lions, showing an increaso -. n"
d. cad- nf 300 millions. Besides thii PEI ne -
value already acquired, the estate mas beafy -. a
lions Of acres OF nnjmproprd MHd yet TO De d're'oP"
appreciated, and has besides An annual P'on"I. "
- 0DO hogheads of tobaccn; Ii millions bnshTis "
wheat 5il0, 600 bushels Of rye; 40 millions pusnes ~
corn; III millions bushels of oats; millions IDS -
WOOL half million bushels Of peas and beans; hln
lion bushels Of Irish and q millions bushels oil sme.
porstoes; 250.U00 bushels of barley and buck nea
IL millions pounds Of butter half million los. OF chee,e
half million tons Of hay; one million los. oil haA' or
sides 80 tone Of hemp l. million lbs. OF sushr-uo
sides her other inuumerable agricultural proauet,
and the products Of her mines Of iron, copper, coa
salt gypsum, lime, and the products OF her forests
and her fisheries. And she has a peculiar SOURCE VI
wealth in her extensive region OF mineral wafer
her hygeia alone bringing n Il million and nan d.
Last of income 10 cash per annum. +,
And air. be not startled when assure you mat a.
this il small-is nothing-when compared win III.
d,yeloument-the gush of continent production OF
uhich We are on the Our progress mus lar uas
been slow, gradual aye, on hard, ascending e'hue
but we have reached a summit level men flg',,to
sbaIl have completed her leading State line TO Inc
Ohio river from Covington to the mouths OF The IA
nawha and the Sandy rivers, and connected her com
muuicatiou with the great network OF roans All"
canals in the whole norhwest-when she snail nave
carried her James river and Kanawla canal across
IN. AI.zhanies. and joined the waters OF the Chesa-
neake to those of the Ohio-~hen her souihwest 'lIe
~ Wamphis shall have inished it's last link, now only
about fifty miles uncompleed-when that line shhlI
bav. b.en connected with the works OF Kentucky
a. we'll those OF Iennessse-when the Cen.,a a.
rsd .hs,l have been connected with the great South,
r.s,srn road-when the Baltimore aud OHIO rcad
shall have been turned at the great iroa and coai
fields on the Potomac, down that river to the cry
Ill o,,n h..ln
of Aexandra-when the Valley shall nave oeen
mad to pour its produce through the Manassa gap,
hv coupectiou with fredericksburg into the Kappa
bsnnock as we'll ne into the Potomac at Alexandria
when the York river road shall be completed ron,
Richmond 10 West P"int-when Richmond shhi'
have connected herself with the North Carolina works
hv tha Dapyie road-wheu the James and Apo
msttoY rivers shall have been cleared Of their bars
no 10 Richmond and Petersburg-when the State
shall in addition to the Improvement OF the haV'
pstiuu OF the James river have sent a line OF
iona .ligib. point on the Hampton Roads
when these or the chief of these works shall
have been accomplished We viii have ra'
dated back to every point ot the Interior conhu
.nc. Of the trade Of the continent Will have taken
Mace through its centre, the shortest lines, III the
heat Temperature Of climate, and conveyance OF
TRANSPORTATION, and concentration Of wealth anu Po-
pu!atiou will be found at point where there ID u
harbor spacious enough and deep enough tor az the
merchant and naval marine of the world aud afford
ing site for city rivalng III the course 81 time
| New York or London. And the Accomplishment! OF
this confluence and conveyance and concentration
will find Virginia empire in herself, IN me d""m",
Ions condition of an OM Siae mHh all ihe hhdeptIGPed
resources nj nec STATE, anil Of a mer Std,e run all
me authorizations Of an old STATE. Her old Eastern
fields dcried for exhaustion, will not be counted
any longer curse, for they are cleared OF the virgin
fores. which requires much work tor the log wood
axe in the hand- OF first aborerI in the new States
and the ways will then be opened TO fields OF coal
and iron and limestone ot he richest quality ana
greatest variety in immediate uXtHposltiun, ten told
larger than those of Pennsy!Ysnis 10 mines of cop
Der ore OF unknown extent: 10 lhlumerab!e aud tx
haustless springs Of salt, which bubble up from rs.
tural crevces aud through artesan bores, with nap
;ha and gas to perform all the uses OF light and fuel!
without wood or coal: Is the uxurlant pastures Of
more than ten thousand hills and valleys now un-
Grouped by horses. cattle mules or swine and to
sheep walk for wool.weah unequaed IN SaXony or
England: to greater extent OF water power tor MA.
nufacturiDg than il known in any other territory ol
the game dimensons to mountain forests of
giant timber without stint, and TO the luin.
Der of the low lands OF the growth in salt sea air.
the fttest for ship building: TO immense tlshe-
res of shad and herring and great variety OF other
floating fsh in every river Of the eastern slope TO q
jus pubicum of more than 900 square miles Of 0ys
iers and other she'll fish, yielding now more than
80 100 600 of bushels and employing nearly lOO,OO
tons of coasug vessels: to every variety of soil for
agriculture horticulture and arboriculture, in every
variety Of climate from 5es for the urnp, to the gar
den for the strawberry, tho peach the pomeg anate
and the hg as sweet Is those OF smyrna 10 theae-
all these-and more in Virginia omE ftniRS
and now undeyeloped and amost untouched! And
this will chow you that Virsintas counted and I'm.
counted wealth alone is enough TO justify all her eX
p.ndiiure and taxation. past end prospective But II
F!rC;Gia a ras's from the seab0ard 10 Ire Ohio
without O 1.-THE of ths perpetual resource, still the
back country beyond her is nerminatie end eI-
hsusess and her eligibility Of track for Hs prcd.ce
ia worth ten fold more millions than she can ever DO
called on 10 erpend. track simply Mediterranean,
on her temperate line Of latitude uf 3I~, due west
from the Chesapeake 10 the Ohio and from the Ohio
to the Mississippi, would, TO enumerete nothing else,
adj months Uf labor 10 Ohlo Indiana ILLINOIS,
Michigan, Iowa. Wisconsin, Missouri, and the whole
northwest, against the obstruction Of trost in WINTER
on The northern nes to the Atantic and against the
low stages of water in the western rivers in GUNNER
and would save millions worth per annum of western
-four from souring aud of western pork from spelling,
by being sent Though our lines insiead Of south.
down the river by New Orleans Gnd though the Gulf
Of Mexico
And that tract don't stop ut the Mississippi, but
goes on to the gold mines of California, and takes
the China trade al San Francisco, and brings along
with il back the continental trade OF North America,
in a belt expanding from the Mrssilla valley in the
southwest to Minnesota in the northwest and CONVEX
Cling through Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee on the
southern. and through Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, In
diana and Ohio the North limb, TO the focus of the
trade with Europe at The mouth OF the Chesapeake,
the last aud only point fit Tor large shipping between
Philadelphia and New Orleans, all the rest of the
b-iug lia;erss bound. The race track of light.
ming after light around the globe 10 directly oyer and
| across North America from the Chesapeake 10 san
Francisco; and when il reaches there it will tee-
graph one ocean rs it has the other-Amerca China,
as England America With our own connections
and Pacific road this track, We will heap up pab.
ulum enough on the auays OF Commerce al lamp
ton Roads for the trads ct all Europe, Asia Africa
and South America without touching the transit of
The Isthmus of Central America a transit across
the continent, the temperate zone, wN prore Jette
for the population Of The 2iobe.
To complete some o! the principa' works and put in
progress other works in the next ten years, Virginia
will require for Cpvington and Ohio road S.OOO,OOD
James river and Kanswha canal, loom uID
Other works 100000