332 GOLD REGION OF UNITED STATES. 



In 1810, the quantity of bar iron made in the Uni- 

 ted Slates was 29,000 tons; in 1830, 112,860 tons, 

 and also 191,536 tons of pig iron, of the value of 

 13,329,760 dollars. In 1810, the total value of our 

 iron manufactures was estimated at $14,364,526. 

 At present it exceeds, probably, $50,000,000, as 

 there is not only a vast increase in the amount of 

 the articles produced, but many new branches of 

 manufacture have been introduced within the last 

 few years. More than half our hardware and cut- 

 lery, and a great proportion of our railroad iron, 

 are still imported from Great Britain. Our iron 

 manufactures consist chiefly, at present, of steam- 

 engines, and all kinds of machinery, nails, fire-grates, 

 and stoves, hollow ware for domestic purposes, chain 

 cables, anchors, agricultural and mechanical tools 

 of ail kinds, firearms, &c. A few years will ren- 

 der us independent of all foreign nations for arti- 

 cles of this kind. 



CHAPTER XXX. 



MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES 

 — (Continued). 



GOLD. 



Extent of the Gold Region of the United States.— Gold-mines 

 of Virginia — North Carolina— Georgia. 



; The gold region of the United States may prop- 

 erly be said to extend from the Rappahannock, in 

 Virginia, to the Coosa in Alabama. Gold has, how- 

 ever, been found in Lower Canada, Vermont, Mas- 

 sachusetts, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 and Maryland^ and it is therefore supposed by some 



