The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-12-03

gzAN We spoke, last week, of our town and
county, ard made brief mention of what it was
rapidly becoming-a live section of country,
because of the excellence of its soil, and the
deYeiopcmcnt of It's mere surface resources, bv
the rather limited means and the enterprise of
lis Inhabitants. But the bulk of our means OF
material wealth and greatness, which will yet
fill the eyes Of those abroad who look upou
our beautiful borough as a provincial village,
dropped down in the midst of a dead or at
least sluggish, section of country, has hard
l. been touched, though even now capital and
enterprise from abroad are beginning TO thrust
finger beneath the surface and stir upthe pure
gold which lies buried there And there are
reasons Why this should not be So
We are within from thiry-six to sixty miles
of the best coal regions in the world, with one
railroad completed and doing business of such
magnitude as really to control the coal market
In the greatest commercial emporium of the
country; and feasible routes, by which the coal
fields may be reached in half dozen direc-
tons all centering AT this point, are known TO
exist without donbt,
Our county, too, in all its parts, is trayersed
with innumerable streams of never failing wa
ter, which, from source to mouth, have such
deciiylty as to furnish almost unlimited power
for the propelling of machinery all the year
round. Three OF these center here al St.a,,ds-
burg, and whether we follow either for miles A.
boye the junction, or the three combined in
one to the Delaware river, we cannot but be i'm
pressed with the truth staring us at every point.
that Providence was indeed, liberal in the be-
stowai of all the gifts necessary to make ours
the center of vast amount Of manufacturing
wealth
We have iron ore, too, within our borders
and from what is already revealed, by the most
superficial investigation ii is safe to infer that
that proper exertion and expenditure will de-
yelop a mine of wealth in this material alone.
And we have slate too, abundant in quantity
and excellent in quality. Quarries already o.
pened are paying large per centage on the
capital invested and beneath the surface are
quarries yet buried which need but an intel
'igent use of the pick and the shovel to lay o.
pen still more marvellous source Of wealth.
Our means of communication with the world
is extensive. A double track railroad leads us
to New York and Philadelphia. both of which
are within hundred miles from this point,
and better markets for the purchase of mate
rial and the sale of manufactured articles ean
hardly be found. Other railroads are slowly
extending themselves in this direction, and but
a few years, nursed with enterprise and lib
eral outlay of capital, would be required to
make our county hum with the sound of the
spindle, the loom, the trip hammer and the
thrift of business. This is not mere bluster--l
The facts to prove il are spread out all around
us, and those who chose to look them squarely
Ia the face cannot fail TO see, in the one-day
soon TO come, Sircudsburg take rank, along with
'cranton, Allentown, Reading and Easton,
,ieh in the scale Of prosperity and wealth.