Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-07-05
The Capacities Of our stats-Its Sources
of Wealth.

Nothing so strikingly exhibits the solid.
iiy and stability Of the basis Of which the
industrial system Of our State rests, and the
comparative exemption Of that system from
the effects of periodical revulsions, As the
steady appreciation Of the value Of our farm.
ing lands. Our interests have not entirely
escaped the visitation which in 1857 paral-
lied trade, and whose lingering presence
is yet to be seen in the partial slsgnatiou
that prevails in many departments Of labor,
in the disjointed condition Of the CONNER
clal machinery Of the country, and In the
reluctance of timid capital to encourage en-.
terprise. But the influence of that vista
ton was mild in Missouri, compared with
Its effects in other Western States; and
while it checked, it could not, and did not,
seriously discourage the development oil
those agricultural and mining interest, on
which our wealth depends. At this time
while the price Of farming lands in Illinoi.
and Iowa is far below the high standard il
had reached in 81, farming lands in Mis-.
souri, are worth more, and sell for more
than even in that year Of high figures; and
our farmers. instead Of being disheartsned
and dispirited by Improbable operations
and fettsred BY mortgages and accumulated
debts, are prosperous. oontented and happy.
A cause for this is to be found in our
diversified interests, each acting beneio-
tally On the others, without the cost and
expense which distance involves, and in the
varied sources frem which we draw our
wealth. We are not, like Illinois and Iowa,
restricted to grain-growing, and exposed 10
the evils which the fluctuations Of the
grain market bring. We are not destitute
Of manufactures, and therefore, dependen,
on foreign mills and workshops for our
fabrics, with the obligation 10 support the
army Of middle men, who are always need
cd when the producer and Consumer live
far apart. But the producer and consumer
both live within the limits Of our ewn State,
and each in purchasing from, or selling 10,
the other, Is saved the expense and incon-
venisnoe Of selling 10 or purchasing from
one whe lives thousand miles off. The
farming interest prsdominates in Missouri,
but in addition t, the farming interest, we
have an important Lead interest, an impor-
tant Iron interest, and an important Manu-
featuring interest; and in the proximity of
these several interests is to be found the
source of our wealth and the cause of our
prosperity. In our agriculture, too, we
psssess q variety which few other States
can boast of.
In the counties OfPike, Galloway, Frank
lin, Cape Girardsau, and Lincoln, we have
soil and climate unsurpassed in the Un-
ion fer Tobacco growing; and the high
prices paid for this product at the late Pre-
mium Sale in this city, show how prOfta-
bic is the cultivation Of that important STA
pie. In Lafayette, Saline, Howard, Platte,
Pettis, Johnson, end jackson counties. we
have region ne less adapted to Hemp, and
the cultivation Of that product has made the
farmers Of those counties rich and indep
dent.
In the Northeastern counties, we have
an unrivalled Wheat region, while the
Southeast yields Corn in quantities seldom
equallsd IN the Vast. The Grand River
country. with its thousands nevsr.failipe
streams and abundance Of water, with its
STITCHES Of alternate prairie, covered with
rich, sweet grass, and tracts of dense tim.
Der, Is one Of the finest stock regions in the
world, and is destined, at no distant day.
when il shall have become thickly settled
BY thrifty farmers and graziers. to become
the great pasture district Of the State, 1
swarming with nultitudss of Cattle fat.
tened for the st. Louis and New York mar
kets.
With all these varied sources Of wealth
with the Iron mines Of Iron county, and the
Lead mines Of Washington and Newton
counties, Weddings product that Is manu-.
featured into fabrics inside Of the State;
with the scarcely touched pineries of Iron,
Madison and Wayne counties, and our un.
rivalled capacities for grazing Cattle, and
growing Corn, Wheat, Hemp and Tobacco
do we require but the facilities for
transportation which system of completed
railroads would, to make Missouri the
7 chest and most powerful State in the Val.
LEI Of the Mississippi?