The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-07
From Cor. Steudrt's Md0urdI
Missouri, and its Resources.

1t is the interest of Missouri to invite inn
migration. We need an increase of produc.
tive genius and Of productive labor. We
have an extended area of territory vet to be
Brought into subsection. The DEVELOPMENT
OF our mineral resources is yet hardly COM
| menced. Our manufacturing interests ara
yet in their infancy. We want an increase
OF capital i'll these departments. We want
the labor, the mechanical skill to direct it.
and the commercial enterprise to facilitate
the necessary exchange of commodities. It
matters not to us whence it comes. if IL
brings with it moral worth and political integ-
rity.
Ours is the central State of the Confeder-
acy and of the continent, and IS destined. in
tie future to be the commercial emporium
OF the Atlantic and the Pacifc-the point of
arrival, departure and exchange of the pro-
ducts OF Europe and Asia. We have the
largest stream in the world-a river which
steamers can now ascend over TWENTY-FIVE
hundred miles, with a vast net work OF tribu-
taries winding through the heart of the
State whilst another great stream. bapplv
designated by the Indians the Father of
Waters" concentrates and pours the waters
Of numerous branches along our eastern bor-
der These two rivers drain an extent of
! fertile surface greater than the continent of
Europe and It's products must pass by our
doors, or find market among US. We have
number of square miles of territory great
er than all New England, rich in all the great
natural clements of wealth. As a BODY of
cultivable SOIL ours is not equalled by any
like quantity in the world.
Our mineral resources surpass in aburd-
ance and variety, those Of any other State in
the Union, and of any other country on
earth. The Iron Mountain alone covers A
surface Of about five hundred acres. and its
ORES extend to an unknown depth. The Pr
lot Knob and its vicinity contain an equal
quantity of rich mineral and iron ores of the
finest qualities are to be found along the
lines Of the Southwest Branch of the Paci.
fic, and Of the Iron Mountain Railroads, and
ar scattered In vast prOfusion over all the
South east section of the State. According
to Professor Swallow, "There is ore enough
of the very best quality, within few miles
OF Pilot Knob and Iron Mountain, above the
surface OF the valles to furnish one million
tons per annum, Of manufactured iron. for
the next two hundred years." Rich mines
of copper and lead are interspersed tbrouph
the same region and of the latter, mex
haustibe quantities have recently been dis.
covered in the Southwest Besides these.
we have great variety of other minerals
amongst which are zinc, cobalt. nickel man.
ganese and others, including traces of silver
and gold.
vi coal, our supply can never be exhaust.
ed. 1t is abundant in the vicinity of St.
Louis all over the northern half of the State
along the lines of the North Missouri, and
the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroads in the
Vicinity of the Usage and in other portions:
Of the Site. According to the statement of
our State Geologist, it would require three
hundred years, at the rate. of loo, 900 tons
per day, to transport the supply imbedded
in four counties on the line of the latter road
He also states that the the coal beds of Mis-
souri, can furnish one hundred million tons
nor onnum. for the next thirteen hundred
years. H.,
near the Usage, and in other localities. We
have, besides, an incalculable supply of ka olin.
or porcelain clay, better in quality than that
of China.
Our population is now over one million. II
has increased with great rapidity during the
last ten years, and to an Unprecedented ex.
tent in the last three years. IF we are wise.
directing our energies to the development of
a'l our resources, physical, moral and intel
ectual. Indignantly frowning upon every at.
tempt to 'nculcate the dangerous and alar-
ming doctrines which lay at the foundation of
me emancipation chimera, and to do not suf-
or ourselves to be involved in fruitless and
nlschievous controversies with the enemie of
Dur prosperity, lurking in our midst our pop
liatlon will continue to increase with still
greater rapidity and the accessions will con-
lists, mainly, of individuals of sound moral
and political principles, who will be true to
The Constitution aud our laws.