The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-07

at hand-Spanish America and tn
/ Brazils, is of vast importance 20 US al
read.
The sudden rise in the value of Ger
tain proolcts, especially coffee, hide
and copper, has during The past two
years enriched all South and Contra
America; and the people are launching
out in local improvements and luxury
on scale only equalled by the lavish.
ness of Cuban sIga- planters ere the
present insurrection broke out. NUM-
cipal and private Improvements, such
as we possess in our third classe cities
are becoming the order of the day in
Span sh America and the Eraz:ls The
people have the money, and they mean
20 spend it. Private residences within
Inc cities of those countries mostly org
mate from the times of the old vice
ro-- allies; tDey are tall, majestic piles
of Inason-y, built on a liberal plan,
with The Moorish patio, or court yard,
uncovered, a the mi6die, and to light
The vast APARTMENTS great deal lore
gas is consumed than in American pri-
vate residences on like scale. Their
streets and public 50, ares are on the
same spacious plan, and SO are The thea
ters. Hence the consumption of gas per
CAPITA in a Spanish American city of
re first or second rank Is about three
.iInes what it is an American city Of The
same sire, The more so as social inte--
course is a great deal more animated af-
5er srnseG n :nose warm lstitudes than
Wa t IS the year through in the gen
erai'::~ of our states. This will suffice
10 show tne importance of the new Gus
tome-s We shall nave 20 supply henc
forward and alone, is the Berlin review
justly rema-ks.
The railroads leading to tide-wa.er
from the coal regions will, of eorrse,
reap i,e Lenef: from this sudden in
crease of business relations, the mere so
as ou- leyt door ne 'ghbors have COM
menced use our ordinary coal also in
large quantities for the past six or eight
mon,ns, Canaoa vie;nG With us in sup
plying tren, yet good y por,iou fall
ing 20 our snare. 1t is % be presumed,
,hereso e, *hat more than ever we shall
be canvassing me localities whence all
this coal for g,-s purposes ~ to be drawn
and Unless we are able to extract it fast
enough % meet requirements, the infer
e1ce is that such coal, now commanding
the moderate figure of nine dollars per
ton, will in The course OF time attain a
higher market value.
Apropos to this important crisis in the
coal trade, we have the prospect of an
supply being made at
once available by the opening of the
and Ohio railroad That
line runs through the heart of coal
and iron field which IN It's extent, It's
richness and its variety of these miner
as is probably unequaied by anything
yet discovered in any part of the world.
Its supply of gas coal is inexhaustible;
and experiment has demonstrated :bat
lis yield of gas is equal 20 that of the
best English coal, Those deposits lie
on the route of direct wate- communi-
cation via the Ohio and the Mississippi
70 the Cuff or Mexico, and within
moderate distance, via the. Chesapeake
Bay, thus having the advantage of the
shortest possible routes 20 the West IN
dies and to Central and South America.
1t seems inevitable that this must be-
come The great source of supply 10 coun-
tries which have hitherto drawn their
gas coal almost entirely from Great
B-:tain.
This prospect is encouraging, not only
to an important railroad enterprise and
20 an hisherto neglected mineral region,
but also to our mercantile marine, long
in a state of decadence. Our great diff
iculty hitherto in contending for the
carrying trade of the West Indies and
South America has been that vessels GO
ing thither from ou- ports could not find
o~- -pS OuI"a'u 1IeASh-Si puI VIII d col-
SAINT outflow of coal, and possibly also
If manufactured iron (for the two are
lpt to keep close company, this difficult
y would be obviated, and, with distance
N our favor, there seems to be no reason
Why we should not, under the changed |
conditions which seem to be in process |
If evolution, control within few years
his very important branch of the ocean
,arrying trade. thus the causes are al |
,eady beginning to work, which must
re long transfer the commerce of the |
Antilles and of Central and South
America from Europe. to the United |
Y. BuLIetin.