333 GOLD REGION OF UNITED STATES. 
M 1810, the quantity of bar iron made in the Uni- 
tedv^ates was 29,000 tons; in 1830, 112,860 tons, 
andJS^so 191,536 tons of pig iron, of the value of 
rjii29,760 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 all kiads, firearms, &c. A few years w^ill 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 
