The national Republican., 1861-07-20
RESOURCES OF OHIO.

RESOURCES OF OHIO.
Ohio has twenty eight regiments in the field
in this war. From her population of 2,343, ,739
she could easily spare hundred thousand more
and still produce enough to feed and clothe oil
her own people, including those in the war, and
in addition two millions of people in Europe OF
elsewhere. What is true of Ohio, is true, ir
the same proportion, Of nearly every State nov
contendiug for the Republic.
Some details Of the prosperity Of Ohio are
given in carefully prepared article in the
New York Tribune of the 10th instant. We
extract:
"More than three fourths Of all that Ohio
exports are of agricultural products, or OF man
ufactures from them. Their total value in 1853
was $4O,2l6,736, and in 1860 about $56, 900
900. There were 650,000 hogs exported, and
some 100000 bushels Of corn in the shape oi
whisky. In fact, this Ohio whisky business is
one Of the marvels of the West There are
l60 distilleries, annually converting ll,7l5,000
bushels of corn into fire. water, producing $780,.
59l barrels. Of this, as whisky and alcohol,
450, 900 barrels are exported. The products Of
animal fat are worth $1,000, 900, of which two
thirds are exported. The whole product of ami
NAL meat packed is about Sl2,000,000.
"Some branches Of manufacturing have been
very largely prosecuted in Ohio. The produc
ton of iron has doubled since 1850, while the
manufacture of castings, machinery, &C., has
increased even more, until the whole iron pro
duct is some $20,000,0OO per annum. The
manufactures from wood are enormous in bulk
and value. At Cincinnati there are establish
ments for producing portable houses, which are
made ready to be fitted together, the pieces
marked and tied in packages, and then shipped
for the remoter States, in which entire towns exist
ofthis description Of houses. Ofhousehold fur.
niture there is also an immense quantity manu-.
factured, which finds an outlet from Cincinnati.
Agricultural implements and machinery are ex.
tensively produced. The manufacture Of cloth.
ing at Cincinnati has attained extraordinary
growth, probably unprecedented in the Union.
This is caused by the great and constant de.
mand for coarse clothing by the large number
of boatmen and emigrants in the Ohio and
Jewish dealers in clothing in that city, who,
from small beginnings, built up immense estab-
lishnents, and to the introduction of the sew.
ing machine, which greatly chespened the cost
OF production. Cincinnati is probably the most
eligible location in the country for large bust
ness of this kind. In 1869 there were 900
persons employed by it, producing goods to the
value of $l6,000,O00. In l840 the product
was only S2,O00,OO0. The leather, wool, and
cotton products of the State are valued at
$4,000, 900. The annual value of house build
ing at $l0,000,000 1t is said that since 1885,
at least one hundred branches of mechanical
and manufacturing industry have been iutro.
duced into the State, which did not exist there
before, some Of them Of great Importance.
During this period of ten years many manufac.
turing emigrants had left for more western 10.
cations, who built up rival establishments, thus,
to some extent, interfering with the localities
they had abandoned. But the constantly-in.
creasng tide OF immigration not only prevented
any actual decrease, but nearly doubled the
value of manufactured products. Thus their
aggregage value in 1850 was $62,647,2 1853,
while in 1860, it was set down at si22,S67, 200.
"In the vastness of her railroad system, Ohio
has exceeded all other States. Within ten years
she has built 5000 miles Of road, and now con.
tains total of 4, 33 miles, while Pennsylvania,
the next highest, has but 1872, and New York
only 3,l75. Iu these works $l20,000, 900 have
been expended, of which SCI, ,455,0O is still
owing as railroad debt.
"Thc assessed value of real and personal
property, in 1850, was $439, ,966, $40 in 1860
it had grown to 1888, 1902, sol, or more than
double. The entire debt due from all classes
of debtnrs il aa folOWs: