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like circumstances, would be " put in Coventry " by every gentleman ; and what is 

 State honor and State pride but the united character of her sons ? The man who 

 is not alive to the character of his State, would patiently bear his own mother to 

 be slandered ! 



After all, this great element of national wealth is only beginning to be brought 

 into play. As the consumption in 1846 is to that of 1826, so will be the increase 

 of the next, over the last twenty years. It is impossible for the imagination, 

 spread its wings as it may, to keep pace with the effects of steam on the popula- 

 tion and wealth of the world. — Vires acquint eundo. Its productive capacity in 

 the saving of time and labor, and thus enabling both to be applied with so much 

 more effect to the production of additional means of subsistence, and, of course, 

 to the augmentation of population, may be likened to the fertility of the most 

 prolific seed or animal, going on to increase ad infinitum by geometrical progression. 

 Yes, verily, no one has yet approached the effects of the action and reaction — the 

 reciprocal production and demand of coal and steam acling on each other, cre- 

 ating capital which creates demand for manual labor, and without which labor 

 would starve. 



But of all the mines yet opened, there is one, the Bear-Mountain deposit, 

 which seems to offer the greatest temptation to capitalists Avho think of embark- 

 ing their funds in a sort of property which appears to have no end in means of 

 supply and certainty of demand — essential as it is to give development and full effi- 

 ciency to the great, the wonderful invention of the age — and keeping pace in con- 

 sumption with the incalculable growth of population, of arts, and of manufactures. 



We have neither space nor time, at present, to go into such particulars as might 

 prove interesting to the curious inquirer as to the general industrial resources of 

 his country, with which every American agriculturist ought to desire to be fa- 

 miliar, and yet avoid the minute details which only capitalists seeking investment 

 might wish to know. We expect, however, to be able to present some striking 

 particulars in our next, in regard to the operations and prospects of the works 

 and mines to which we have referred. For the present we must content our- 

 selves with lifting the curtain only so far as to submit the result of a calculation, 

 presented in the " Report of Edward F. Johnson, Esq., Civil Engineer." It 

 may serve to set those to thinking, at least, who have made or propose to make 

 investments in coal mines : 



" Cost of mininf!; one ton of coal at Bear-SIotintain, and delivery at mouth of tunnel 40 



Timber for supports, per ton 06 



Breaking and scroenin;;, do 11 



Transportation on railroad, and delivery into the boats on the canal 20 



Freiglit and tolls per ton from Dauphin to Havre-de-Grace. by canal, 80 miles $1 l>3 



Transportation from Ilavre-de-Grace to Baltimore, and delivery 115 



Add for contingencies and waste, per ton 15 



Total to Baltimore $2 jia 



Or to Delaware City 2 55 



Twenty-five cents per ton added to the latter amount, will probably pay for the delivery of the 

 coal in Philadelphia, makinf^ the whole cost to the company but 30 to 50 cents per ton fjrcater llian 

 the present price of coal at Pottsville, the source wlionce most of the anthracite coal wiiich issi^nt 

 to market is derived. This indicates that tiie Bear-Mountain coal may be brought into successful 

 competition with the Schuylkill coal, even in the Philadelphia market." 



" Midway of the North or Bear-Mountain, and a short distance from the county 

 line of Schuylkill county, is a gap or opening, called Rausch's gap, through which 

 flows northerly from the valley between two mountains, a branch of Pine creek. 

 At this gap the veins of coal and ore in the North mountain are fully exposed, 

 and have been worked, particularly the former, sufiiciently to determine their 

 character and value." 



It is here that the lands of the Bear-Mountain railroad company are located — 



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