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thus procure a good and constant supply. While the South 
of Yorkshire produces an abundant supply of coal, North 
Yorkshire an abundant supply of ironstone, West Yorkshire 
clay stone, and with a good supply of water and skilled 
labourers, we have within our reach and power those 
elements and essentials eminently calculated to produce great 
social, local, and national advantages. These natural advan- 
tages enable each district to have a well-defined staple trade 
of its own, and which admits of no interference by the 
others. We have, therefore, coal, ironstone, manufactured 
iron, steel, and machinery of every conceivable kind ; we 
have cloths, linen and woollen, coarse and fine ; we have 
alpacas, carpets, yarns, and fancy goods ; the world is our 
market, our ships sail on every sea and known navigable 
rivers ; and for all, water is one great essential. 
It is not our intention in the least to raise a needless 
alarm, or to insinuate that the water supply is about to be 
diminished, but rather to point out the wisdom and utility of 
a considerate economy in its use, or rather abuse, more 
especially on the part of those who are situate at the head of 
streams, and who, by the deleterious matters they pour into 
them, renders them unfit for their neighbours' use. This 
caution appears necessary, from the fact that in many 
densely-populated districts the present supply is not equal, in 
all seasons, to the demand. The health of the inhabitants 
is thereby jeopardized, and the welfare of the community 
imperiled by a continuance of such a state of things. The 
resources of each district should be ascertained, and the best 
means adopted for rendering those resources available at the 
least cost, both to manufacturers and to the inhabitants of 
the various districts. 
I hope this subject will receive the attention it deserves 
from those most interested, viz., the commercial part of the 
community ; these are directly interested, but it is a national 
