Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-30
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
The Northwest Feeding the Atlantic 80
cincinnati. Chicago and ST. LOniS.

. The Northwest Feeding the Atlanttc-s
! GinciMnati, Chicago and st. Louis.
! Political economists, in estimating
the value of the several portions Of this
country, in their contributions to the
aggregate wealth and prosperity of the
nation, are too apt to underestimate the
Importance of the Western States, as
they are to ovcrvaluc tic products of
other sections, the staples Of which are
made to influence largely the politics Of
the country. Without stopping to no.
tice common de,usions upon this point,
and disdaining any desire to discharge
the contributions of any section to M
tional wealth or greatness, we will
glance briefly at the resources and COM
merce of the West. With the lakes
stretching for two thousand miles on
the North, and the Ohio and Missis-
sippi to the South and West, there is
scarcely any quarter Of the earth better
situated for the site Of Il great empire.
This very position enables it to under
stand and estimate properly the value
of the American Union. On the North
east, its great water basins are united
with the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and
through Ontario with the Hudson. On
the South west, it is by the Mississippi
in easy and natural neiehborhood with
all the States on the Gulf Of Mexico
BY such communications, united with
railroads, the cotton and sugar of the
South are now transmitted in great
quantities through Cincinnati and
Louisville to the furthest points of New
York and New England. Here, hap
PLY and centrally situated, the Western
States, by nature the garden of America,
supply both with food, for neither the
ertrene North or iSoath raise bread
enough to cat If the Atlantic States,
then, were separated from the West,
they must either change their whole
mode of culture, or must import their
grain from foreign countries. If the
Union was dissolved, the South must
depend, as she does now, on the West
for food, and present the absurd atti
tude of voluntarily separating from that
part of the family which supplied the
bread. 70 present the relation Of the
NCSG " LHC lCSG VI y mum, III
regard to food, we shall glance at the
trade of the Western marts. We will
begin with Chicago the youngest of the
large Western towns. We have before
us several of the annual reports Of Chi
cago, and make the following comparison:
Shipment lin 1853 from Clca 90 Of four,
wheat and corn, reduced To bushels $3.50 Gao
Shipment of same articles in lsIl a3OOGGU
1915 -, ,l96 eco
(partial returns) 1860 30,UUOUCO
In the ten years, last past, the erpo,ts
of breadStufs from Chicago have in
creased tenfold, and now amount to
enough to feed we'll five millions Of people.
The shipment of meats from Chicago,
in 1865 (Which has since been consider
ably increasedD amounted to
Gs;3ix! H"Sf l"u%Ssr,' lsss!, g ,s!s
This is equiyalentto 1ss, 900 barrels of
picked meats.
Let us now turn to St. Louis: Of
which we cannot give the returns Of the
past year, but may approximate the
exports of that city.
Shipments If Breadstuns from st. Louis in 80,
1855 (bushcis) s,300n06
Hogs e5n0Cn
Cattle 15,GUu
This is equivalent to 10000 barrels
of picked meats and lard. Since that
time the exports of grain and meat have
increased; but, as the crops have been
short, not in large ratio. Let US now
take the export of food from Cincinnati:
| 1ne shipments of BreaGstuGs from Cincinnati
in I55l (oushcls.J olI,inG
Shipments Of meats in 1889;
iIoes 4I0,GCO
Cattle lQ,CL0
This was equivalent to $50. 600 bar
rels of picked meat.
Shipments of Breadstufs in 1859 3.I.G.CCO bushels
Shipments OF Meats in 1859 hogs 620.,G0
Do do cattle 1900
Equivalent tc 434 900 barrels of meats.
Adding at least 20 per cent, for the re-
suits of 1860, in these great marts Of the
West. and we have the shipments of
breadstuffs and meats in 1860, reducing
-four to bushels Of Grain, and animals to
barrels of meat, as follows: