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as our own. In those essential combinations for successful 

 mechanical and manufacturing labor, such as iron, coal, soil, 

 water-power, marble, stone quarries, timber, &c., Indiana 

 has no equal in the Union; yet the iron, coal, and minerals 

 of our State, are taken abroad and successfully used to profit, 

 by the labor of others. 



We seem to be anxious to exhaust our forests of walnut 

 and cherry, that the mechanics of other States, may reap 

 the reward thereon. 



The bringing together the mechanics of our own and other 

 States, in the county and State fairs among us, with the best 

 specimens of their skill and labor, is well calculated to foster 

 and encourage the mechanical labor of the country. 



The great advantages that result from the assembling of 

 farmers, mechanics, and manufacturers, in associations, in 

 which the productions of their skill and labor are exhibited, 

 consists in a free interchange of views and opinions; you 

 thereby stimulate industry, bring together the most distin- 

 guished mechanics of the State, with, not only the work of 

 their brain and hands, but they come together to inquire into 

 the wants of the country, that they may return to their 

 workshops to perfect the inventions that have been suggested 

 by these means. The manufacturer exhibits the result of his 

 inventions and labor ; the farmer the mode, process, and im- 

 provements of the farm; the trials, tests, and experiments 

 that are thus exhibited, will create a spirit of rivalry, well 

 calculated to develope the resources of the country — well 

 adapted to show the real wants of the people, and the pros- 

 pects and means of supplying those wants. In this way 

 every branch of industry is made better acquainted with the 

 mutual wants and dependency of each; and in this laudable 

 spirit of emulation, the country marches forward in real and 

 substantial improvement in the true road to wealth. 



A very considerable sum of money is paid abroad by our 

 people, for stock, implements and productions of other States, 



