New-York tribune., 1869-05-07

reaching market In regard to many branches OF
manufacturing these considerations are as fayoraDy
met in New-Jersey as they can be elsewhere lhe
business of manufacturing iron and iron goods
owing to her own supply of the ore, and the cheap
supply of coal from Pennsylvania, can always 10 Ns
proftably followed in Eew-Jersey as in the . nos.
favored localities Of the country Inc Slalo L.
always bo a favorte location for that class oi
factures in which the chief value comes noLi -
labor bestowed, and not from the mateiiit -.
Thus the manufacturing of 1ndiaruoDsl so0uS'
olools 1ro+obos 1ocl,s cbemica substances, paper,
jewery, &c From its great conVeilleioo ~ 80
ton Noyyorl has already become the thrd CITY oI
tho Tn;on in the value OF its manufactured producs'
o5 ys ;son to n population of 100000 inhabltants'
q,bo valuable water-power at Paterson has already
otttod tbitber several of the heaviest ma1utactur-
ir,o establishments of the country jersey Clty,
Nev-BrunsUick, Camden, Elizabeth, and Railway
ara increasing rapidly and in very great degree as
manufacturing towns. The valuable water-powers
along the Delaware River win at no distant day DO
far more extensively employed than now.
With all these advantages in her favor New-Jersey
is not very likely to fall behind in the race for pros
perity. Her climate is genial and salubrious. She
has every variety of surface, from the picturesque
beauties of the Blue Ridge and the Green Pond
Mountains to the glorious sea-shOres at Long Branch
thousands who prefer country home after the tolls
of counting houses in New-York. Her population
increased between 1850 and 1S0 S72 per cent which
is per cent greater than the increase of the whole
country. and in five years. between 1880 and 1862
her increase was 1911 per cent This rate is moro
rapid than many of the growing States OF the West,
and far more rapid than any other ofth Eastern ana
Middle States Under the whip and spur OF proht-
able demand and scientific tiage, her agricultural
products are rapidly increasing. Her soil VIII sup
port a much larger population than the present and
will still be able to furnish an increased supply OF
her surplus products to other markets.
There is one pressing duty which Rew-Jersey still
owes in the direction of development Of resources
1t cannot much longer be delayed She must reclaim
the thousands upon thousands Of acres OF tue
meadows which border her rivers and bays These
lands are more favorably located for profitable agri
culture than any other which she possesses. Their
warm location their inexhaustible fertility thelr
nearpess to market will make them mines OF wealth
to the possessors 1t is dlscredit to American
engineering and American enterprise and science
that they have lain so long unproductiYe OF anything
but swamp grass and musketoes
The Legislature Of New-JeTsey has wisely enacted
that the geological survey which has already done so
much for the development Of the resources Of the
State. shall be continued for four years more. we
shall be surprised if we do not hear of Dr. Cook
bringing bear the of his practical sagac
Ity and scientific research upon the questions con
Dected with the reclaimng of these valuable tide
lands, . ..