Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-04-08
Missouri Correspondence.
ST.. Louis Mo March 30. 1s68,


EDITOR CHRONICLE Tuesday NOR
ming, March oath. took the morning
Atlantic train at Warren, and Wednes-
day | dined at the Planters hotel, one
OF the institutions of this State, in the
heart OF this great city. Should any of
your readers come to this city, they
ought not to pass by this hotel. It's
proprletors are gentlemen-liberal
public spirited and loyal, in a locality
where loyalty means and costs something.
Guests are made to feel at home.
Here, all traces of winter have melted
away; spring has come with its soft,
balmy breezes; the singing of birds.
genial sunshine, and fields and yards
crowned with Yerdure, makeup ascene
pleasant to comprehend and enjoy I;
ard why should it not be so, when we
recollect that no section of all our
broad land has more salubrious eli
mate than has the State of Missouri.
st. Louis is an old city, in many res
pects-dull and antiquated. In anoth-
er sense, she is but three years old
the youngest Of all the larger cities in
the west As the offspring of slavery
she is old ; as the adopted daughter of
freedom, what an infant. Every thing
lies right at the door of this city neces-
sary to make it, west of New York, the
great city Of the land, were there men
enough Of the right stamp to take hold.
and improve the opportunities and
materials wasting on every hand.
To Missouri, st. Louis is the head and
heart, and she has her destiny in her
own hands. Missouri. beyond all con.
troVersy, is the wealthiest State in the
Union, in mineral resources, fertility oi
soil and means of communication
Larger coal fields underlie her broad
acres than in any other State-her bow
els are full of iron ore. of remarkable
1 purIty-and huge mountains of thi.
precious metal meet the gaze of the
traveller within one hundred and fifty
miles of this city. In the same acre o
land is found ore, and coal, and lime
stone, ready to be made into iron.-
There is found lead, magnesia, anti
mony, and quartz sand for glass, Will
mines of tin of immense value also ex
ist, as our friends E. G. and U. II
Booth have fully demonstrated by aC
tual smelings.
As st. Louis will be the great hom
market for all the cereal grain grown
not only in her own borders, but il
Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, when ca
pable, live business men control tn
trade of the city.
Think Of it, city with two hundred
and fifty thousand souls, standing il
Ihe very center of ore and coal fields
richer than any in Pennsylvania, with
out furnace or rolling mill in he
borders No manufacturers of an,
kind, using general expressions. I be
lieve there IS a nail factory, in chroni,
decline, some where, and away up tn
river is shot tower hear, but have no
seen it.
When you look at Niles with he
eighteen hundred souls, and Youngs
town with her six thousand souls-Witl
their furnaces, rolling mills, and ma
chine shops and factories, and abov,
all consider how far both these place
are from LsaVittsbuTg. what shall VI
think How account for such absence
of means, for development of the re
sources of this State.
Labor is abundant, provisions with
out market, the raw material is il
the way-why is not labor combined
fed on this surplus corn and wheat
and the raw material worked up int
merchantable commodities. is a ques
tion that some Ohio man asks me daily
answer these question in conversation
and in other numbers will answer then
in your columns. by giving you tht
only want and demand of this grea
city. F.