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less consequence and extent. Alabama partakes in a great degree of 

 the enterprise of Georgia. 



Texas is rather too young to do much as yet in either railroads or 

 manufactures. Yet she has her cotton factory and iron foundry. I 

 find her represented here in machinery. Charters have been given 

 for making navigable a number of her rivers. Railroad charters have 

 been also granted with tolerable good prospect of success. Coal and 

 iron are found in great abundance in this State. Texas must become 

 eventually a manufacturing as well as an agricultural State. 



Louisiana is a large sugar manufacturing State. The capital m 

 sugar, cotton factories, and iron foundries, with her railroads, and 

 other means of travel and transportation, is at least fifty millions of 

 dollars. The position of this State is such as to make her a flourish- 

 ing sugar and cotton manufacturing State. 



Although the last census gave Mississippi fifty-three cotton factories, 

 the whole only producing about twenty thousand dollars worth, yet 

 she is now turning her attention in good earnest to this department of 

 industry. Her planters are taking up the subject. A manufacturing 

 town, like Lowell, has been commenced under good auspices. In 

 twenty years from this, Mississippi will be a flourishing manufacturing 

 State. About twenty millions of dollars are now invested in rail and 

 other roads and manufactures. 



Missouri is destined to be one of the largest cotton, hemp, tobac- 

 co, and lead manufacturing states in the West and South-West. Her 

 mineral wealth is inexhaustible. A very considerable number of iron 

 mills, foundries, and hemp factories are already in existence. As yet 

 but little is done in cotton — but a good time is coming. About twelve 

 millions of dollars is invested in internal improvements, mining and 

 manufactures. 



Arkansas has considerable mineral wealth, and will in some future 

 day become a thriving manufacturing State. As yet manufactures 

 " are few and far between." 



