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<£i)C jTarmcr's iKcuit f)lp Visito r. 



Wonderful Discovert.— The Boston Atlas 

 has several interesting communications from n 

 correspondent in the copper mine region of lake 

 Superior. One of them details some remarka- 

 ble discoveries which have been recently made 

 a few miles interior from the mouth of Ontona- 

 gon river. Every inch of it had been battered 

 and hammered over, and attempts bad been 

 made to pry it up, and place it on a platform. 

 All this was the labor of a race of beings long 

 since passed away. There is too much skill 

 manifested (or the present race of Indians, and 

 yet the workings are too ancient to have been 

 those of white men. Many loads of rude stone 

 hammers are found buried a few feet beneath 

 the surface. They are so abundant that in ston- 

 ing up a cellar it was found more convenient to 

 use them than to throw them out. Hemlock 

 trees two feet in diameter, and, from examina- 

 tion, two and three hundred years old, are grow- 

 ing over the working, and have to be felled to 

 enable the miners to excavate the earth. Re- 

 mains of charred wedges and levers anil copper 

 gads are found under these trees and under the 

 principal mass. These ancient workings can 

 be traced for more than half a mile through the 

 forest, and an expenditure of fifty thousand dol- 

 lars at this time, would not pay for the accom- 

 plishment of an equal amount of labor. Their 

 great antiquity would seem to carry us back to 

 other tribes. It is not impossible that the pre- 

 sent Indians may be the descendants of those 

 who wrought them. — Exchange. 



potatoes thirty cents. Hay ten dollars, and hemp 

 and flax fifty dollars per ton. These are the 

 home prices, before transportation to market, and 

 apply to the first column of the following table . 



Estimated value oftht Crops of 1848, and the sums 

 invested in manufactures and merchandise 



in each State : 

 States. Crops. Manufactures. Merchandise. 



Maine $13,000,000 $10,000,000 §5.000,000 



N. Hampshire 9,000,000 12,000.000 3,000,000 

 Massach'seltsl 1,000,000 52,000.000 16.000,000 

 Rhode Island 1,500,000 13,000,000 4,000,000 

 Connecticut 9,000,000 17,000.000 

 Vermont 15,000,000 5,000,000 

 New York 79.000,000 09,000,000 

 New Jersey 11,000,000 14,000,060 



Pennsylvania55,000,000 



Productions and Capital of the United States. 

 In examining the resources of our country, no 



Delaware 

 Maryland 



Virginia 

 N. Carolina 

 S. Carolina 

 Georgia 

 Alabama 



1.800,000 

 10,000,000 

 38,000,000 

 19,000,000 

 14,000.000 

 21,000,000 

 17,000,000 



50,000,000 

 2,000,000 

 8,000,000 



13,000,000 

 5,000,000 

 4,000,000 



8,000.000 



4,000,000 

 53,000,000 



5,000,000 

 45.000,000 



1,300,000 

 13 000 000 

 21,000,000 



0,000,000 

 10,000,000 



Cotton 804,800,000 



Sugar 10,000,000 



Tobacco 19,176,000 

 Wool, 40 cents per pound 17,900,000 



Family goods 36,278,000 



Product of dairies 42,300,000 



Product of orchards 9,070,000 



Hay 128,000,000 



Hemp and flax 5,937.000 



Potatoes 40,014,000 



The investments in factories of every descrip- 

 tion are staled generally in the table of the 

 Stales. Believing that it would interest our read- 

 ers to see some of the varieties and the propor- 

 tions of capital in each, we submit the following: 



Mississippi 14,000,000 



Louisiana 19,000,000 



Tennessee 40,000,000 



Kentucky 28,000,000 



Ohio 49,000,000 



Indiana 47,000,000 



Illinois 18,000,000 



Missouri 12,000,000 



Arkansas 6,000,000 



Michigan 7,000,000 



Florida 3,000,000 



Wisconsin 2,000,000 



Iowa 2,000,000 

 Texas 

 Dist. Columbia 100,000 



4,000,000 11,000,000 



3,000,000 8.000,000 



2,000,000 7,000,000 



H.OOO.OOO 20.000.000 



5,000,000 9,000,000 



7,000,000 



20,000,000 



5,000,000 



4,000,000 



4,000,000 



1,000.000 



4,000,000 



1,000,000 



800.000 



300,000 



11,000.000 

 27,000.000 

 7,000,000 

 6,000,000 

 10,000,000 

 2,000,000 

 3,000,000 

 2,000,000 

 1,000,000 

 1,000,000 



1,200,000 3,000,000 



Total. . .. $571,400,000 $344,300,000 $322,000,000 



From the above estimate it will be seen that 



nearly $600,000,000 in value will be derived this 



Cotton 



Silk 



Flax 



Mixed 



Tobacco 



Hats, &c. 



Leather, &c. 



Candles, &c. 



Liquor 



Paper 



Printing 



Powder 



Rope 



Drugs, &c. 



Glass, &c. 



Carriages 



Furniture 



Mills, &c. 



$63,877,000 



342,000 



260,000 



5,460,000 



4,296,000 



5,606,000 



35,000.000 

 3,346,000 



1 1 433,000 

 5,881.000 

 7.341.000 

 1,094, 900 

 3,006.000 

 5,633.000 

 3,296,000 

 6,963,000 

 8,736,000 



82,322,000 



Having shown the outlay, it is proper to no- 

 lice the return from manufacturing operations, 

 which is given, without method, in the fol- 

 lowing statement : — 



single object— indeed no half dozen objects — year from the cultivation of the soil, besides 

 should determine the estimate. The whole field 

 of labor und capital should be carefully survey- 

 ed, to ascertain its production, on the best evi- 

 dence at command. 



Previously to 1840 no regular effort had been 

 made to obtain a statistical view of the pursuits 

 and property of our people ; but, with the cen- 

 sus of that year, a mass of information was or- 

 dered to be taken, which has since formed the 

 Basis of reports and dissertations upon our na- 

 tional industry. We have drawn from this com- 

 mon storehouse the data on which a statement 

 of the agriculture, commerce, manufactures, 

 and general condition of the United States, com- 

 paratively, has been prepared. The rule adopted 

 in arriving at the amounts in our tables, has 

 been to add twenty-five per cent, on the returns 

 of 1640, as that is the generally supposed in- 

 crease of population within the last eight years, 

 and of course the proper ratio of the productive 

 energies of the country. Our plan is designed 

 to be intelligible to all. The matter collected is 

 a fair representation of our annual products from 

 the soil, and in part from machinery. Much la- 

 bor has been bestowed in the preparation of the 

 tables below, as may be inferred from the nature 



what may proceed from gardens, orchards, dai- 

 ries, &c, amounting at least to $50,000,000 more. 

 These productions are increased with every har- 

 vest, as new parts of the country are settled and 

 additional labor is employed in the ratio of pop- 

 ulation. 



The live stock on farms is another item in the 

 computation of wealth, w bich should not be omit- 

 ted in our task. We give the number with an 

 estimation of value, at an average of sixty dol- 

 lars for horses and mules, five dollars for neat 

 cattle, two dollars and fifty cents for sheep, and 

 two dollars for swine, as follows : 



Kumber. Value. 



5,432,000 $325,920,000 



18,738.000 93,690,1 00 



24.136,000 

 32,876,000 



Manufactures. 

 Cotton 

 Woolen 

 Mixed 

 Silk 

 Flax 



Ilais and caps 

 Bonnets 

 Leather, &c. 

 Glass 

 Carriages 

 Furniture 

 Cordage 

 Earthen-ware 

 Refined sugars 

 Confectionary 

 Musical instruments 

 Meial 

 Flour 



Value. 



857.937.000 



25,845,000 



8,181.000 



143,000 



402.000 



10.980,000 



1,845,000 



41.418.000 



3.500,000 



13,623,000 



9,443,000 



5,097,000 



1,255,000 



4,062,000 



' 1,428,000 



1.154,000 



I -',068,000 



95.681,000 



60,335,000 



65,752,000 

 11,080,000 



Grain. 

 Indian corn 

 Wheat 



of the work. Under the bead of " Crops," thir- ^ a,s 

 teen articles are included, on each of which the 

 value has been adjusted to the several Slates, 

 with the necessary advance on the same items, 

 as they were reported in 1840 ; thus affording the 

 approximate value of the crop of 1848, together 

 with the sums invested in manufactures and mer- 

 chandise, respectively. In making up the "Crops" 

 in our table, prices have been assumed as fol- 

 lows; cotton at six cents per pound; sugar four; 

 rice three; tobacco seven. Wheat sixty cents 

 per bushel ; corn thirty ; barley thirty ; oats 

 twenty-five; rye forty: buckwheat fifty; and 



Live Stock. 

 Horses and mules 

 Neat cattle 

 Sheep 

 Swine 

 Poultry 



Total $557,377,000 



As the grain crops are the very foundation of 



all support, a table showing their quantity and 

 value is subjoined : 



Bushels. Value. 



471,913,000 $141,573,000 



105,858,000 63,514,000 



153.839,000 38,459,000 



23,306,000 9,322,000 



9,557,000 4,557,000 



5,200,000 1,560,000 



101,000,000 3,031,000 



ye 

 Buckwheat 

 Barley 



Rice, pounds 



Total $202,016,000 



The cotton and sugar crop may be estimated 

 upon data much more recent than the census 

 statistics of 1840. Merely as conjectural, we 

 adopt 2,400,000 bales of the one and 250,000 

 hogsheads of the other as the production of 

 1848. We also connect a number of miscclla 

 neons articles in the statement. 



Besides the amount set forth in a preceding 

 table, as constituting the commerce, or rather 

 the retail trade of the Slates, the sum of $149,- 

 000,000 is employed in the commission business 

 and foreign trade— together, making the sum of 

 $471,000,000 in our commerce. 



We shall close for the present the staii-ticsttf 

 our national industry and resources. That we 

 have made such a rapid progress within less ! 

 than three-fourths of a century, since as a peo- 

 ple ne cast off the shackles of monarchy, is as- 

 tonishing, even to ourselves. The tables sl.;'. r 

 the immense productions and business of the ! 

 country, and as such we submit them for what- , 



ever they are worth. . i 



I 

 In relation to the amounts staled a> liie annual 



product of manufactures, some doubt of their 

 accuracy may perhaps be entertained, from the 

 excess, in some instances, over the capital in- 

 vested. Though we consider the returns madjej 

 wilh the census as in some degree imperfect J 

 from the difficulty of a first attempt of ihe kind 

 yet they are the nearest and most reliable ap- 

 proximation with which the country has beeri 

 furnished on the subject. The value of maun I 

 fact tired articles may exc< ed the capital paid 6u 

 for buildings and machinery ; but the cost of !h 



