Annual Statement of the Trade and Commerce of Cincinnati, for the Commercial Year Ending (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...Cincinnati, if she should avail herself of these advantages, a substantial monopoly of the iron manufacture for millions of people. Nor is this all. Zinc, lead, and marble are found in East Tennessee, and salt water, stronger than any in the United States, is found in Southwestern Virginia. In fine, the opening of the railways to East Tennessee would furnish Cincinnati immediately with inexhaustible quantities, at the cheapest rates, of all the raw materials needed in any of the arts, and place her artisans beyond the power of competition from any quarter whatever. McGregor has said, in his statistics, that the power of Great Britain lies in her mineral resources. It is these whk;h create the fire of her furnaces, ' move her looms, and whirl her spindles. It is these which have built her ships, and furnished the materials of commerce. It is these which have enabled herpeople to buy food, when their own was deficient. It is these, united with indomitable industry, which have made them a great and mighty nation. But all these, the valley of the Ohio nas, in far greater proportion, than Great Britain; and Cincinnati has more than London. What, then, is to arrest its growth? With thousands of miles of navigation; with thousands of miles of railway; with radial lines of commerce greater than those to any other city; with the commercial command of 300,000 square miles of territory, (including that brought in by the Southern Railway;) with an indomitable industry; with mineral resources, such as no other city has had; and with all the instruction of science, education, and commerce, what, ex cept the special interference of Providence, can arrest the growth and prosperity of Cincinnati? Trade and Commerce of Cincinnati. We shall now proceed to give a general revie...