New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-24
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Missouri is the Oldest except Louisiana and
by Ear the most productive and pOpulous of
our eleven States west of the Mississippi. In
area, she is considerably larger than any State
east of that river, having G535O square miles
to New-Yorlis $1,000 and Pennsylvania $4,000.
Virginia, by the severance of West Virginia,
is reduced to 409O4 square miles.) Her popu-
lation is sweled by the late census to Ill.,
2j8, making her in numbers the sixth State in
the Union. She is traverscd, through her north
ern Counties, by the Missouri, and washed,
along be- eastern border, by the Mississippi;
and she has constructed some two thousand
miles of Railroads at a cost Of over S100,000,G00.
These roads have hardly begun to help her to
trade with other States but they will soon
connect her, by various routes through Arkan-
sas and Kansas, with Texas and Arizona, as
she is now connected with Nebraska and Col
oradO and then her advantages of position
will be doubled She will be the inevitable
gateway between the ingenious North and the
genial, fertile, productive Southwest.
Missouri has greater amount and variety
of Mineral wealth than any other State Her
Iron is rich, inexhaustible, and very eligibly
located; her Lead, Zinc, Copper, Tin, Cobalt,
veloped, are of great promise. Her soil and
climate are excellent; all the grains and
grasses, with the grape, peach, and other
choice fruits, are produced by them as abuE-
dainty and of as fine quality as in the most
favored localities. In short, Missouri is among
the most attractive and thrifty States, but
needs ten times her present population to do
justice to her immense resources. She viii re-
turn at least Three Millions by the Census Of
1880.
ST. Louis is the natural emporium of the vast
valleys of the Missouri and Upper Mississippi.
She had 310S64 inhabitants in 1870, being
about the only city in the Union whose popu-
lation exceeded the estimates of the sanguine
citizens ct was 1852 in 1880, 1G,469 in 1910,
74439 in 1850, and 160,773 in 1867 Her as
sessed wealth in 1850 was less than Thirty
Millions of Dollars in 1870, over One Hundred
and Forty Millions Her Public Debt was less
than that of any other city of her size in the
Union
Her production of Iron exceeds that of any
other city but Pittsburgh, and is rapidly in
creasing. With Ore in mountains on one side
and Coal inexhaustible on the other, she con
probably make Iron cheaper than it can be
end the $4,000 tuns she produced in 1870 ought
to be doubled in ~ and doubled again in 70.
The 13,64O,370 pounds of Lead and 1,545,930
pounds of Zinc produced in the State in 1870
ought also to be rapidly augmented. Her
Railroads have hitherto opened to her trade
no region south or southwest of her own
borders; but this is rapidly changing,
and st. Louis will soon be practically as near
to the Rio Grande as she now is to the Platte
and the Scioto. When her swift trains shall
daily traverse Arkansas and Texas on two or
three distinct routes, her true career will have
fairly begun.
With regard to the production Of Textile
Fabrics, we have always insisted that the
South and West possessed great ADVANTAGES
over the North and East and on this point
the new edition of Mr.. Reavis's st. Louis
Z" the Future Great City of the World" says
"a few facts in relation to the relative advantages oi
St. Louis for tho manufacture Of staple cotton ana "O
goods will be Of interest. II is situated ID the ce
the great and inoxhausbe coal region OF the "cs'
proximity TO the cotton and wooden Dei.' anu '"o
cheap transit OF the Mississippi river ana railways III
average price of two cents per pouao less or
mddling cotton than az NewYork or Boston 'thus en
bling the manufacturer TO produce his goods INST Louis
at less than the Eastern mills produce then ana AT
additional saving hafcen per yard Tor the arans
portaton OF tho manufactured product. through the
productiveness OF our soil, we can proFPerously
support larger population 70 the square mileFnan any
other country In the world Our destiny th hrcfore Is
matter Of fact and not question of argument We are
20 be the center OF manufacturing hsfict In textile
fabrics which to supply the wants Of Hho Mississippi
Valley, tao sOuihWo5 the NOrthWcstand the Pac!"s
Slope
"Intha manufacture Of staple goods. where the ia"