The daily gazette., 1880-02-10

600 bushels Of corn and 40,OO0, 900 bush.
els Of whest-which Is . falling of in
nine years Of 80, 600, 600 Bushels OF corn
and an Increase Of 100000 bushels Of
wheat.
The westeyn States IN 1870 produced
csc, SIS, 600 bushels of corn and 16s, ,OOO,-
$50 bushels OF corn and SS2, ,0O0, 900
bushels OF wheat.
The manufacturer OF the, nine West
ern States Included 10 the Statement
Ohio being one out Of the exhibit-are
chiefly those in which wood and iron
enter, TO which may be added -four. ain
1s7S.r says Mr.. Porter, the four States
Of Il.inois, Visions n, Indiana and Kan
sas prodticed 260, ,7S3 tons of rails, more
than thiety per cent. Of all the rails pro-
lduced that year In the United States. !"
Yery few textile fabrics are made nj the
West, but continues Mr.. Porter, s'lt has
undoubtedly" pushed the branches into
which wood aud iron enter to their full
est extent, Indiana to-day sending wsg
ons via England TO SouthsAf lea; Mich
igan furniture Is sent to Great Britain
and sold twenty five percent. cheaper
"a8a ~ t4h w HAV4dtUo &ha AZ
the manufacture OF agricultural imple-
ments Illinois and Its immt diate vicinity
excels the world. In radius Of about
two hundred miles around Chicago more
agricultural implements are made than
In any other section In the world" Pig
iron, he says, can be produced more
cheaply at the South, because In that
section labor and raw material are low
in price. We sre so accustomed TO speak
of cotton as the staple export Of the
South that her MANUFACTURES Of mixed
fabrics, and even Of tobacco, are usually
thrown into the shade. OF her iron In
dustries we hear little or nothing, and
yet in 1878 there were in the Southern
States la blast furnaces, 80 rolling
mills aud steel works, and IS forges and
bloomeries--beiRg 3S blast furnaces and
so rolling mills and steel works less than
at the West, but double the number of
forges and bloomeries, or, to put IL in
figures, As in the South as against "a in
the West
The defect in Mr.. Porter's tables is
that in his agricultural statistics he
confines himself exclusively to the two
chief cereals-corn and wheat. In the
production of these the West is inf
nitely ahead of all the rest of the
States of the Union put together. But |
in proper estimate of the agricultur-
al resources of the sections between
which Mr.. Porter institutes a compar-
lson the cotton, tobacco and sugar
production of the South should be tax
EN- into account. He does indeed show
that iron can be made at the South |
cheaper than in any other States of |
the Union. He might have added that |
the ores is of the best, that it is smelt- |
ed largely with charcoal, and that the |
quality of the iron produced is by some |
experts pronounced to be equal to the
best Swedish. He might also have
what now has been demon
strated, that the palmer cotton fabrics
1re manufactured more cheaply at the
south than anywhere else. and that
hose who have put money into South
I'm mills have derived large annual
profits from the investment. If, there
iore, as he says, there are grand pros
poets in the future for the manufact-
1res of the West, so also are there for
The South. But the tables he gives
IRE interesting, even though in some
respects defective. Upon one point he
s certainly right: Within the next
decade the West will be numerically
-he dominant section, and in politics
seems destined hereafter to exercise
hat influence on legislation and the
Affairs of government which for many
Fears has been exercised by the East.