The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-02-17
NEW NORTH. WEST,
DEER LODGE CITY. FRIDAY, FEB. IL.
Sc. LOuis-PrO0rcsa.

Mr.. Reavis has issued new and enlarged
edition of his "St. Louis, the future great
City of the World" whence we CLEAN that
Manufactures Of that city, according to the
census just completed, have grown as fol-
lows
IL 1850 n 1870: Increase:
GGp.s, nvss'd ss l p per 6,
Annual product. 27,6I0o;o !0v,s!3;S5O zsG per Ct
Home manufactures are habitually treated
as specially Northern interest; yet here is
the chief city Of the Great Valley showing
an expansion and thrift in this department
Of Industry which no city in Ncw-England
or on the sea board can rival. And it is
plain that the progress made during the last
decade is destined, under favoring auspices,
to be not only maintained but exceeded du-
ring the next The Vulcan Iron WORKS
just going into operation will turn out 80
tons Of Pig Iron and l.j of Railroad Bars
per day. employing 400 hands and capital
Vi -, Gco, eco
St. Louis erected 1886 buildings during
1870, at q cost Of $5,G27, lcJ. One of them
COS. S3V0,C0O; several others more than
$4,000 each. She owns 200 steamers and
900 largcs, Of total value of 6,e44, 200.
Her receipts of Wheat in 1870 were %, 49,
V22 bushels; of Goal, 1891 ,475 bushels-a
large excess over those of any former year.
Her deb. is Sl3,7i4.G0o; being exceeded by
those Of New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn:
E"ltimofe, and Eew orleans. uer taHeS
for 1870 were 81 cJG,0iS, being exceeded
ly those OF Chicago and each OK the above
nnmci cit les except Baltimore.
81. Louis Is clearly destined to he great
city. Der bridge across the Father of Wa
lcrs is TO be finished this year, at a total
cost of nearly Sj,CC00CO. 1t will give an
impulse 10 Liorc manu- sctures Ivy diminish.
ing tbs cost Of coal and other materials
A tunnel nua.iy mile long Will bc ira
veyscd by The railroad Trains that cross it
from tie river bank 20 the great ecntra!
depot in The htart OF the city.
Thirteen railroads now terminate OH the
Illinois shore opposite st. Louis, and will
If cous.e. send their trains over the great
or soon will Leave St. Louis on her land
ward side. Missouri IS now thoroughly
Iermeatcu by these; by which she is con-
ncctcd, through Kansas, with Colorado,
Utah and the Pacific Slope. as well IS with
Nebraska aid the Upper Missouri.
Were st. Louis as thoroughly connected
Ivy rail with tho regions south and west of
her as Chicago is with those which bear u
corresponding relation to her, her trade
would now IT, double what it is, and her
next Census would give her population of
One Million. AS it is, her 3l2 $50 inhabi.
ianis ION all area Of scant 20 square miles,
while Cuioa;o has s07,!lS on 34A square
miles,) viii doubtless be doubled before
1850.
Mr. Reayis gives the aggregate length Of
our country's Railroads rs 1924 miles,
while all the rest OF this continent, with its
islands, has but 4,ilG miles. Europe has
81 ,043 miles, Asia ,41A miles, Africa 4,5S3,
and Australia 789 miles: So that more than
one-ihird in total length of all the Rail
roads on our planet this day traverse a sim
gle republic of the New World which
Sprans into life less than century ago.