New-York tribune., 1870-10-11
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
FOUR DAYS IN ST. LOUIS.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 5.-Having visited st. Louis
twice before, each time in the midst Of Winter am
struck by the manifold evidences yearly presented
of her growth and strength. judge that she has
not less than two thousand buildings now in proges
mainly brick and stone dwellings that will rent fof
5000 up to 900 EACH generally of handsome presence
and replete with every convenience. They not
so tall in the average as we build in NewYork and
of better proportions and filter to be lived in
judge that not less than dozen churches also in
progress, most of which would do credit TO any
city. Blocks of stores are likewise looming un
with many large factories and workshops. Tie
eight or ten large furnaces for smelling Ore
into Pig Iron are all located in CarondelcL
southern suburb on the bank of the
Mississippi and the line Of the Iron Mountain Rail-
road, five to ten miles from the Court House. yt
within the chartered limits Of the City but the three
rolling-ms for the production of Bar Iron from Pis
all within the actual city, and all doing thciI
best. There should be ten times the number.
CaTondelet produces far Pig Iron than d.
yet required this side OF Cincinnati that ia pics
is lower here than almost anywhere else in ouI
country hence ST. Louis is point at which Stoves
and all manner of Castings are adyantageously pro-
duced in great abundance and of excellent quality
Ofthe rolling-mls, one ecertainly-perhaps two-hsNa
just gone to work. as ten should do within tho
next year. | understand that two three new AID
large blast furnaces will begin TO selt directly,
and that German company, after careful survey
of the ground have offered to invest 81 100000 i'm "a
Steel Rail manufactory provided $4,000 be added
by Missourians. The production of Hardware in
this city is already large, but ought 10 DO
speedily quadrupled. doubt that there is another
city in the Union which our present Protective Tana
is more essential to than ST. Louis; for she has tho
greater number of her furnaces and factories yet
to create; and the Tariff is powerfully aiding TO call
them into being. New discoveries of Iron are be-
ing frequently made throughout this State; while tho
facilities for bringing hther the Coal Of lower lli
nois and Indiana rapidly increasing. The greab
Bridge across the Mississippi in progress and 10
be completed in 1871 will reduce the cost Of Coal
throughout this City by at least fifty cents per tnn.
and correspondingly augment the facilities and IN
ducenents already presented for locating at thus
point every description of manufacture. Let tha
Tariff alone and ST. Louis will take even rank
with Pittsburgh as great laboratory for the produc
tiop of the Metals Wares and Fabrics that minister
to the comforts of life
As vet she has but few Cotton and Wooden farto-
ries located within her limits in her vcinity bt
these are making substantial seryiceabe fabrics 40
moderate prices st. Charles, thirty miles up tho
Missouri, has both Cotton and Woolen mills, which
make considerable displays at the Fair. Lacon lii-
nois sends cheap shawls in considerable variety.
variety are on exhibition from Missouri, Iowa,
Illinois, aud Minnesota factories They ara
satisfactory in every respect but that IL
abundance where there should be twenty
cases, there is but And now st. Louis throuet
the managers of her Fair offers 5000 in premiums
on Cotton Of diverse kinds and grades, with inteLs
to constitute herself market for the reception and
sale of future crops She will succeed in this 30 far
and so fast only as she becomes surrounded by pun 4
lIt Ia
Million bales shall be annually converted into Y
yarns and fabrics in Missouri and the States north
and west of her, then ST. Louis will be necessarily
an important Cotton market, but not while those
States are mainly clad from the looms Of old Of
New England.
have already ntimated that new discoveries Of
Minerals are frequently made in this State, they
doubtless will be for years to Those of Iron
more directly important in that they diversity tho
qualities of Missouri ores, thus insuring the produc-
ton (by mixture of cheaper and better Iron. GudeA
by experience and aided by the multiplicity Of their
Railroads the ron-masters of Great Britain and Ger
many are enabled to make more and better Iron OUT
of mixture of various ores than could possibly be
made from those ores reduced separately Our facil
tiles for such mixture have in good part yet TO be
created while knowledge of the art is suscepti
BILE of enlargement by experience; but we are apt
learners and the field of improvement stretches
broadly before u.s.
Tin from the mines recently opened in this State
is on exhibition here IN the form Of ore, and also IN
that of the pure metal and see no reason t0 doubt
the verify or importance of the discovery. Lead has
long been obtained here by rude processes, yet in
Large quantities. Zinc is extensively separated
from the Lead, where it formerly regarded only
as an obstruction and nuisance. And hill Of tho
purest Silica has recently been opened thirty mits
south of st. Louis the bank of the Mississippi,
which is pronounced by experts better adapted to
the production of Plate Glass than any known TO ex-
ist in the Old World. A Committee of the Chamber
of Commerce has been looking into it, aud ltue
doubt exists that under the protection of the high
duty go per cent? now levied imported Plato
Glass mandatory will soon be established here,
wherefrom the whole valley of the Mississippi will
be supplied with this costly and fragile product
Il have said that the buildings OF St. Louis evnee
the sodty of her growth; but that growth has also
been rapid. Citizens still in active business rcInc-
Der her when she a struggling village II 1900
and she now has nearly 3l30O0 which is
about the population Of New-York thirty years ago,
and exceeds that Of any other of cities south
west of the SuSquehanna and the Genesee. Whether
Baltimore Chicago ranks next TO her am not
certain; but, if we count Brooklyn a suburb and
virtual segment of New-York, st. Louis is already
the third city of the Union, she clearly is the
largest inland city of our continent, Mexico u bo-
lieve) not excepted.
The Exhibition or Fair which closes here with
general holiday tomorrow clearly evinces the spirit
of her people. The Association which holds il 10 en-
tirely voluntary has had no State patronage, and IL
but ten years old; yet It owns ts eighty acres of
cboioa ,,rounJs and has buiIt structures thereon