Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-12

of II IN prairie and ready nt once for the plough
The rapid influx VI population into this group
States increased the quantity Of the "improv'
land, thereby meaning farms more or less cultiyut
within thGr limits from 26 6sO,3 Gl acrcs in 500
+ 81 ,s2G,395 in 1850, but leaving residue yet to
improved of 23O,30S, 293 Horrs The area of 20 iGd
acres thus taken in ten year. from the prairie
the forest /, equal 10 scycn-cighths Of the ara
area Of England, stated by its political cconomi
T to hr - 900 600 of acres.
The area embraced in the residue will perm
similar operation TO De repeated eight times sued
/ ,iyoly plainly demonstrating the capacity of
group of States TO expand their present popuat
of s,957, $50 10 At least 10000 600 if not 100000
Of inhabitants without Inconvenience
The commercial tonnage of the United Sta
was
Ia 1850 764 tom
,535 i5i tom
lHo"....,..,,,..,,,,... ,,...,,,,..5,3 sos tom
At $50 per ton which is II full estimate, the VIII,
pecuniary value Of the 5,35s, sos tons, embracing
our commercial fleets on the oceans and lakes
! rivers, and numbering nearly thirty thousand V
sells, would be but S267,9i0,O0O; whereas, the i
crcrsc in the pecuninry value of the States und
consideration, in each year of the last decade, "
S2sl0000O0 Five years increase would purchi
every commercial vessel in the Christian world
In the last decade the cereal products of these !
terror States increased from 3O9,95O,2g5 bushels
5jS, lG0,323 bushels considerably exceeding
whole cereal product of England, and nearly if
quite equal to that of France. In the same peri
the swine, who play very important part in &C
suming the large surplus Of Indian corn, increas
in number from 1896 1872 to ,O39, 1872, and the C
tie from 4.373,7l2 to 7,2OlSlO.
/ 1t is difficult to furnish any visible or adcquaI
measure for a mss of cereals enormous US $50
100000 Of bushels About one-ffth Of the wht
desccnds tho chain of lakes, on which 1890 vess.
constantly employed in the season Of navigntt|
About one-.cvcnth of the whole finds its way to [
ocean through the Erie Canal, which has alreal
been once enlarged for the purpose of passing v,|
sells of 200 tons, and is now under survey by Il
State Of New York for second enlargement
pass vessels of 500 tons. The vessels called "oau
boats now navigating the canal, exceed 1900 |
number and if placed in line would be more tiid
eighty miles in length
The whole CROP &c placed in barrels, would ed
circle the globe. Such is its present magnitude
leave it to statistical science to discern and tru
estimate the future One result is nj asl esonts,
parent. \ general famine is now impossible, n
America, if necessary, can feed Europe for centurd
to come
4. The great motallifcrors region of the America
Union is found between the Missouri river and I'D
Pacific ocean. This grand division Of the Repuhli
embraces little r9Crc than half of its whole cont
mental breadth.
American people since the foundation Of thei
Government, to carry the machinery Of Civilization
westward from the Atlantic to the Missouri, tn
great continent of the Mississippi SO far as I'll
means of rapid intercommuncations are conccrnc,
the work may be said to be accomplished, for II loc,
motive engine can now run without interruptio
from Portland to the Missouri striking il at st. Jc
scph, just below the fortcth parallel oflatude. l
the twenty years preceding 1860 network of raj
ways 81 90 miles in length constructed, havin
the terminus of the most western link on the Nil
souri, river. The total cost was Sll5l, 800 500, {
$sj0,9O06sl was expended in the decade bctwce
1850 and 1860.
The Governments feeling the vital national i'm
portance of closely connecting the States of the 4
lantic and of the Mississippi with the Pacific wit
all practical despatch has vigorously exerted it
power On the lst Of July, 1862, nearly fftce
months after the outbreak Of the existing insure,
ton, and notwithstanding the necessity of callin
into the field more than half million of men
enforce the national authority, Congress passed n
act for Incorporating The Union Pacific Railwa
Company and appropriated 500, 900 in Il
bonds Of the United States with large grants
land to aid the work. directing 1t to be constructe
at the Tooth meridian of longitude but with fou
branches extending to the Missouri river.
1t is not yet possible TO estimate with any acc,
racy the extent of the deposits of gold and silve
but they are already known to exist at very numc
Gus localities in and between the Rocky Mountain
and the Sierra Nevada not TO mention the ric
quartz-mining regions in California itself whic
continue To pour ont their volumes of gold to nfiac
whether for good or ILL., the financial condition Of I'll
civilized world. During the last six months COL
has been obtained in such quantities from the sane
of the Snake river and other continents of the &,
lumbia river as to attract more than 10000 pcrsor
TO that remote portion of our metallicrou interio
The products of those streams alone for the prescI
year are estimated at 20.0H0.O00.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office i
his official report Of the 10Th December, 1869, state
rs follows
"Ihc great Uurii, rous region Of the United State
in theawcstern portion of the Continent, stretch,
from the 18th dcgre. III north a,tuic ard Pug,
Sound to the seth degree 50 minute, parallel an
from the lo2a degree Of longitude Yves, of Greer
wich to the Pacific ocean. embracing portions ,
Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado all VI New Ncxic
with Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Orcgo
and Washington Territories. II may be designate
rs comprising II degrees Of latitude or a hrcaulh
LOO square miles from north to SOUTH and of ncarl
equal longitudinal extension, making area
more than II million square miles.
The yield Of the precious metal. alone Of tn
region will not fall below SlOOO1e,0 1p the ss,ss.
year. and It will augment with the increase of por
ulation for centuries 10 come. Within ten year
the annual products Of these mines will roac
S2oO,Oooo00 IN the precious metals and in Goa
IRON tin, lead, quicksilver, and copper, half tina
| sum
He propose TO suhjec, these minerals 10 Cox
crnmcnt tax Of eight per cent and counts upon
revenue from this source of $25 100000 per snnum
almost immediately and upon a proportiunsie in
crease in The future. lie adls that awith m amour
If labor relatively equal tn that expended in Cali
fornia applied to the gold fields already known I,
exist outside Of that state, the production Of thi
/ year, including that Of California. would oxcoc,