The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-12-28

| best cokcs. They are at the door OF mex
hatistiblc mountains OF iron-ore, whereas
the Pennsylvania Goals are more than 2o0
miles away from iron in quantity. Hence
our iron-manufactures would be In the
midst of 40,000,0o0 people, increasing
100000 year, while those OF Pennsylya-
mia are far away on the outskirts OF clyill-
cation. What, then, will enable The Kama
wha TO become the greatest iron-naking
and coal-shipping locality In America: No
thing but the completion OF It's improvement
at further cost OF some g., 000, 000is needed.
| The Improvement Of these trout streams,
ranging iron, 100 to $500 miles In length,
and Of our brooks from $50 TO 1000 miles
long, may injure the commerce OF some OF
the eastern cities, may bring down the rates
OF freight on the railroads, and will open
up new fields for cheaper coal-mining and
cheaper manufacturing. This may be death
to some capitalists. but 1t will be life to the
laborcrs and profit to the consumers. They
will find here mild and healthiul climate,
cheap living, and half the food and clothing
needed in the cold regions Of the North.
! BY the by, some OF our trout, called cat
fish, weigh $50 pounds. pike IS, red hone
40, bass 10 TO Is, salmon 10 TO %, white
perch so pounds, &C.; tolcrably good
sized trout, roaming in schools along their
streams, ranging from $50 20 1900 miles in
length. And as for timber, think OF pop
lar 100 to $50 feet without a limb, 4 to ID
feet in diameter; oak, walnut, &C., 3 TO 6
feet in diameter; veins OF iron ore 10 to
$50 feet thick.
Now, | know these wise men OF the
East--statesmen with quills behind their
ears and waxcd morstache.J editors, with
perfumed handkcrchiefs and stogies in
| their mouths" whar strut and stare and
n that" viii not believe anything OF all
this. 1t is, however, true, but not written
for them. We out here have no pearls for
swine. Your views, gentlemen, on the
| improvement Of our rivers are in keeping
with New England ideas. which. had they
prevailed, would have held the western
! confines Of our territory to the Mississippi,
and left Florida vet in the hands of Spain.
| Your views on internal improvement cor
respond with your financial opinions cX-
actly--narrow and contracted-Wise for the
truck-patch. but not wise for continent.
Statesmen, believe me, do not grow III
track patches. Neither do they grow i'll
crowded cities, nor yet in carpetcd halls.
| New England will never grow statesman
with views for continent Of forty or more
great Commonwealth. You think few
| hundred milions-yca, 49, 00-cXpcHded
on our rivers and for the protection OF the
| Mississippi bottoms, would empty the
| Treasury and destroy national credit. for
sooth. You think Sj0,000,00O or SlOc,O0O,-
OOO issued yearly in paper for the rcdemp-
ton of our bonds would reduce the gold
value OF grcenbacks, &c. DO You not
know these things would strengthen
national credit? Do you not know the
credit OF O country depends upon its surplus
productS2 1t is mines and manufactures:
| il is the golden harvest; it is the full year
Of corn; it is opened fields; it is cheap
| transportation it is the white cotton-
fields; it is sugar and tobacco; it is peace
and Just laws; it is justice to all sections
these. these make the national credit;
these fill our country with gold and silver,
with IN cvcr-flowing stream pouring into
the treasury. From these have come specie
payment. and from no other source. These
will mantanit. Nothing else can. Money,
improved rivers, railroads, increase these
products, and they in turn bring gold and
silver, and national credit follows, just us
the lakes grow full from flowing rivers.
Let the West and the South look TO their
interests. JOHN :. SWAMI.
horlcSton. ". 70, December Is, 1882.
y. S. There are great many trout
streams from two hundred to five hundred
miles long flowing into TIE Atlantic. ]
leave them TO lie cared for by tie grand
people through whose States thcy flow.