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ehes of the Susquehanna, a region teeming with mineral treasures.
The cost of materials at that point for making aton of iron are thus

given:
2% tons of iron ore, including mining, mine rent,
and transportation at 5331,50 per annum $3,25
1 ton of limestone at - - - - - 65
3% tons of coal at $1375 including steam power, 6,62%

 

_ $1052;

These estimates are not merely theoretical or speculative,but are
taken from actual results in daily operation, and there can be little
doubt that this would be one of the points from which pig iron
could be furnished in the Philadelphia market, at 20 to $22 per ton
and to yield a fair profit.

That our readers may have before them the particular articles of
import, with the valuation attached, which it would be as well if
possible, to produce ourselves, we copy the following list from the
New York Tribune, a paper zealously devoted to the encouragement
of home labor and reciprocal commerce. We hope to see the “home
league” made a rallying point throughout the Union, and which our A
richer and heavier capitaled rivals abroad, will understand as not ap-
proving the system, but as only retaliating, and as the most effective
means of forcing them into free trade in reality, that is accompa*
nied by reciprocity, which we always have been and will continue
to be ready for on those terms. This is precisely one of the excep- *
tions to the general rule‘, that two wrongs cannot make a right.
Statement of the principal articles of foreign manufacture imported

into the United States, for the year ending Sept. 30, 1840.

Articles. Amount of imports.
Woolen manufactures -* , — - - - ~ $6,345,345
Cotton do. -— — - — - - - 6,504,484
Silk do. 4 - - - — - - 10,982,191
Lace —- - - -' e - — « - 468,425
Carpeting — ~ - e - — 4 - 338,501
Hats and bonnets - s - e 1 ~ 4 . 433,000
Boots and shoes ~‘ - -« -' e a a. 71,533
Leather - ~ » - - - . . 473,091
Cabinet ware - — - - 4 . . . 85,275
Soap - - - -' « - - —' - 13,859
Manufactures of iron and steel - - - » - 7,324,482

“ Flax and hemp - — . - 5,966,944
" Cropper, brass, tin, pewter and lead 362,423
Arndunt carried ‘forward. ‘ t1i3‘9,555,-¢‘_15V3

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