Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-19
AFEw FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT
THE MINERAL AND MRTALLIFER.
Gus WEALTH OF AMERICA.

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Gus WEALTH OF america.
The increasing power and wealth and
population of this wonderful country
are often dilated upon In general terms,
and read with infinite relish, but very
few of us really comprehend their sig
niheance when thus applied. Aglance
at a few figures will give a very good
idea OF their true meaning. From the
census Of 1860 we learn that the pro-
duction of pig-iron in the United States
had already reached over one and a quar-
ter millions OF tons per annum.- The
amount Of American anthracite coal
sent to market increased from 81, 374
tons in 1925 to 9,265,0 9l tons in 1865.
In gold everybody knows of the count
less millions that, since lS49, have been
and are still being taken out Of our hills,
rivers and placers-and how the yield is
continually augmenting. In silver very
many millions of dollars are now annu-
ally extracted, where but a few years
ago no n dreamed such treasures were
lying buried. Our copper, which fetch
es in Europe nearly double the price of
any other, is, under such astimulus, in
creasing largely in yield. Our petro-
leum product has also advanced from
1887 barrels in 1859, to 1900, 900 in
1865. So, in fact, with all our mineral
stores. All the manufactures depend
ing upon those products have similarly
increased. Thus in the year 1850 only
a, 900 tons Of American rails were made,
but in 1865 there were eight times as
many, viz: 1853, 900 tons; and so with
/ other iniIs.ries-snd as we increase
! the home product, We corrospondingly
| dimiassh torcigg ,mportRtions. Our
/ enormous u5iuerAi wealth directly and
| indirectly attracts both capital and la
/ Dor. Il was ont the other day that We
! read in au English exchange Of some
great manufacturer Who was about 20
transplant his racturICs .:Cu scotland
to the United States, and it was stated
at the same time, that others had al
ready done, and many more intend to
do the same thing.
Then turning to the statistics Of migra-
ton we find that 99,sll foreigners ar
rived here in 1868; 227 ,535 in 1864 /;
and 2S7, $50 in 1865; while from jan
uary LIST to October 3lst of the present
wear the Castle Garden immigration reg
lister shows 202 40 names against 1885,
Isl registered in a corresponding period
last year-but with the singular change
that while the Irish show al increase OF
only 5 per cent. over last year, the
English have increased 30 per cent,
and the German 10 per cent. The like
lihood Of another great war at no dis
tant day between Austria and Prussia
may partly account for the swollen Ger
man migration; the desire to see the
degeneration of Ireland" this year or
next may have detained many Irish; but
the rush of English immigrants is partly
due to the closing Of so many Cornish
mines and the fact that British skilled
laborers have learned whore their SER
vices will be best paid and appreciated.
British migration is likely to increase
still more, on account Of the distressed
condition ofthe laboring classes through
out the dominious of that Government.
Thousands of voices are heard at Dept.
ford and in other towns of England and
Scotland, demanding work, or bread /;
Ireland never ceases to complain; other
thousands are suffering for want Of work
in Australia; while hundreds Of thou
sands are dying of famine in India, and
it is feared that the prodigious number
Of corpses lining the streets and roads
will breed in that empire q still more
deadly pestilence. Furthermore, the
muscle Of Great Britain-thanks to the
influence Of the American press and the
voices of John Bright and other Re
formers-is beginning to ascertain that
il has q mind, and that if this fact is not
recognized in England it is in this land
of equality and freedom. However, the
result is what we look at, viz: the
steady but rapid and irresistible in
crease of u population, u indus.
tries, our wealth, and u power and
we believe that at the bottom of all this
prosperity-probe it never so deeply
will be found the immense treasures OF
minerals and metals which providence
has v~ouchsafed us, and the energy and
enterprise Of our national character in
developing them.-N. y. Journal q
Mining, Nor. 24h.