Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-02-03
How ssCincinmati to be Supplied
with FueEl

IN IN afliclein our last weeks paper on
this subject, it was shown that the fuel Of
Cincinnati for the future must be coal. It
was further shown that the sources Of sup
ply must be accessible to her at all times,
! that at those sources the supply must be
in inexhaustble abundance -thatsbe mnst
beable 70 procure i cheapiand that her
future progress depended upon the concur
renee Of all these conditions.
We had the positive promise, for this
weeks paper, Of an article in Continuation
Of the subject from oneof our citizens who
il much better posted ii these matters chan
Onfself;; but finding at the last hourthat
We are to be disappointed, we proceed
briefly and hastily to throw togethera few
Of the considerations which TO our mind
connect Meigs county and Cincinnati to-
gether by the ties Of mutual and recipro-
cal interests, and renders the proper solu-
ton Of the question Of the supply of that
city with coal, of the utmost importance
to both.
Cincinnati is not from her position nat
urally a manufacturing town. She has
not the raw material, the water power to
drive her machinery, nor the coal with
which to supply the place Of water as a
motive power. For all these she must
depend on other and distant localities.
Yet Notwithstanding these disadvantages,
she has become the great manufacturing
emporium Of the West For her eminent
position in this respect she is indebted to
her position as the centre of avast Internal
commerce, the unsurpassed skill and en-
ergy of her world-renowned mechanics,
tie public spirit Of her wealthy citizens,
and the enlightened libcrality and enter
prise of her business men generally. The
same causes continuing to operate may
enable her still to advance; but to meet
the wants Of the future will demand OF her
renewed efforts commensurate with the
rapidly developing region of country, in
the centre Of which she has hitherto sat as
the acknowledged Queen, She is evident
ly soon to pass through an ordeal which is
to determine her future. and ssi1ut iIerTfu.
ture will be depends upon the rightsolution
of the fuel question.
As in the formation and developement
Of the human body, the heart from the
centre, sends out in all directions its ram
i6ed network of arteries and veins, through
which the life-suslaining currents may
flow, carrying to the extlemeties Of the
system, vitality, yigor and growth; SO has
Cincinnati, as the great commercial heart
Of vast and fertile surrounding country,
sent oy her artificial arteries and vensin
the form of Tulnpikes, Canals, and Rail-
roads, along which necessarily courses the
varied traffic OF busy millions-the vital
currents Of commercial life, conveying the
elements Of prosperity, deyelopement and
material growth. But these means Of
eommanieation, important as they are,
serve only to facilitate the transfer of the
various articles Of necessity and conven-
ience from the points of superabundance to
those Of deficiency thus maintaining an
equilibrium, they do not create, And al
though this facility Of exchange is indeed
an essential function in the social life Of
people so inately active and industrious
as we are yet no great city can long sus-
tain itself and continue to advance in pop
ulation and wealth without herself pro-
ducing as well as transmitting the produc-
tions Of others.
Cincinnati as the centre Of trade for a
large, productive and rapidly developing
region Of surrounding country. has hiih-
erto prospered beyond almost any former
sxample But her population has become
SO numerous, and other cities, as new
rentfes Of trade, springing up in all direc-
tons, to rival her in the commerce of the
West once almost exclusively in her own
hands. it has become quite requisite to her
very life that she Gnd employment for the
yearly increasing thousands of her people
il productive industry. This can only be
done By sustaining the various manufac-
lures already established and an indefinite
increase in their number and capacity
Aud this again can only be accomplished
BY an abundant supply Of cheap fuel.
70 eetherprssent necessities requires,
We are informed, 100000 bushels Of
coal per apaum And with her increas.
ing population, the extension Of her manu-
iaetiigss, and the exhaustion Of wood with.
ID her reach, that figure will soon be
doubled. Now It'll perfectly evident that
tosuppIy this demand the chief dependence
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