Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-14
Total Grain IN Bushels,
23,655,066

Excess in '63 over '60..........49,36S,lU
Showing the product of grain in those
districts whose shipping points are at the
places named were more than three fold in
SO over the crops of go. The figures
taken at those three points, are fair index
OF the increased product throughout the
grain growing States of the North.
Buffalo n. V, is a conspicuously inn
portant point, at which to measure the
quantities of staple products of the North
ern States. Letus take the figures at that
point for the two years 1860 and 1868.
Cattle, Hogs 4 Sheep, 5s2,O9S 72O 766
Grain in Bushels, 37,OS9, 46l 64,735,5lO
Pork, Bbls., 1913 3O3,5H
Beef, Bbls., $3.50 l2l,609
Bacon, lbs, 6,913,OOO 2S,Hl,l5O
Lard, lbs, 5,379,l5O 29,S49,939
Spirits, Bbls., 1921 l2o,9OO
Another excellent basis for these calcu-
lations is the summary of receipts at the
western terminal points of the chief rail-
roads and canals by which the transpor-
tation is continued to the seaboard.
These points are the western terminus of
the Baltimore and Ohio Road; OF the
Pennsylvania Central Road, Dunkirk,
Buffalo, Niagara, Oswego, Cape Vincent,
Osdensburg, Montreal and Rochester.
We find the receipts OF grain in bushels,
at these points, to have been ll6,3G7 ,54S,
in 1868, against A, 3j4, 225, in 1860. The
same steady increase in quantities may be
cited at every point where the produc-
tons of the country may be measured.
The mines of Lake Superior yielded 65,-
679 tons of iron ore in 1859, and 100000
tons in 1868. OF metallic copper the
yield was 6,O4l tons in 1859, and 10000
tons in 1868. OF petroleum there were
produced in 1859. $50 bbis of 40 gallons;
in 1868, 100000 bbls. OF iron, there.
were produced in Pennsylvania in 1859,
2S6,3S2 tons in 1868, 10000 tons. The
coal of the anthracite and semi-anthracite
districts of Pennsylvania, produced in
1859, was 1892, 632 tons; in 1863 it was
lO,226,l24 tons. The coal of Maryland
was 100000 tons less in 1868 than in 1859
or 1850; but the soft bitumin"us Goals Of
Western Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois and
Iowa, were produced in quantities nearly
double those of four years since.
Mr.. Lorin Blodget has been employed
BY the Treasury Department TO collate the
records of the United States relating to
foreign commerce, and it is from con-
densed pamphlet Of the result of his labors
that we have, at some pains, compiled the
foregoing figures. In concluding this
article, we will quote Mr.. Blodget's re-
marks and figures regarding the exports
during the years mentioned. Having con-
cluded his voluminous tables, he says:
The above may suffice to prove the univers.
al and great increase in the loyal States Of
the simple quantities of staple articles of
production. Every city and every market
exhibits the same proportional increase In
the quantities produced, haudled or sold for
consumption. 1t can no longer be open to
doubt, that il staple articles, demanded alike
for export and for consumption, constitute
wealth, the loyal States were actually far
more wealthy in lS62and 1868 than they were
in 1859 and 1860.
Pork, butter, cheese, beef, tallow, tobacco,
petroleum, and other articles, exhibit the
same extraordinary proportions of increase,
both in quantity and value. Perhaps the
most direct mode of presenting the point
deemed essential in this illustration is to
compare the quantities Of certain leading ex-
ports in lS59-60 with those Of 1923, or to
give the excess in the last named year.