Copper Resources of Michigan-Commerce at Toledo. The abundant copper resources of Michigan continue still to attract attention. A single mineral section which brought a few years ago $2,600, is now supposed to be worth $400,000. The completion of the Sault St. Marie Canal will greatly develope these resources, and the land appropriation by Congress will be adequate to the completion. The results which are sure to be derived to the country at a future day, so far as the article of copper is concerned, can be roughly estimated from statements which we shall give, of operations in English mining, down to the period when attention was prominently drawn to the region around Lake Superior. The English mines do not afford so pure 401 an article as the American, by a large per centage, and that the cost of production in the former has been much greater than it will be in the latter. In 1843 the exports of British copper consisted of 8,463 tons, unwrought, in pigs, &c.; 60 tons of coin; 8,386 tons in sheets, nails, &c.; 6 tons of wire, and 598 tons of wrought copper, making a total of 18,515 tons. The quantity of copper ore carried to England for the purpose of being smelted, and re-imported in the metallic state, has been very great of late years. In 1826, but 64 tons were sent. In 1836, the importation had reached 18,491 tons, and in 1844 the quantity had increased to 55,720 tons. În 1843, 64,445 tons of ore produced 11,640 tons of metal, or a fraction over 18 per cent. The foreign copper ore imported into England in that year was estimated at $900,000Chili furnished 19,849 tons, and the United States 1,151 tons. Three-sevenths of the copper made in England, at that period, was from foreign ore, the remainder from ore derived principally from the mines of Cornwall. The total value of all the British copper mines is, in good years, £1,500,000. COMMERCE OF TOLEDO.-Supposing you to be interested in the march of business in all parts of the great central plain, I have procured, says J. W. Scott, of Toledo, in a letter to us to-day, from the canal collector, at this place, a few items of arrivals and clearances by canal, from the opening of navigation, for the years 1851 and 1852, up to 14th of November: Arrived. .bbls.... 196,838... ...bbls.. 31,895. bbls. 15,488. 21,790 Corn meal. bbls.. 261. 3,771.. receipts of grain by this channel alone will have reached six million bushels. Adding the flour at five bush. the bbl., and the large figure of seven million and three hundred thousands of bushels is made, to represent the breadstuffs appear to have been Nicholas Bourne, discharged from canal-boats at Toledo. The receipts by rail-road have more than doubled those of any preceding year, as have also those by wagon. The tables exhibiting these have not yet been prepared. our time was published in the metropolis in 1622, and that the most prominent of the ingenious speculators who offered the novelty to the world was one Nathaniel Butter. His companions in the work NEWSPAPERS.-By the last census it appears the number published in the United States is 2625, circulating about 400,000,000 copies annually. It is curious to trace the origin of this powerful Fourth Estate from its humble beginnings in the seventeenth century. Thomas Archer, Nathaniel Newberry, Wm. Sheffard, Bartholomew Downes and Edward Allde. All these different names appear in the imprints of the early numbers of the first newspaperthe New News. What appears to be the earliest sheet bears date the 23d of May, 1622, and has the names of Bourne and Archer on the title; but as we proceed in the examination of the subject, we find that Butter becomes the most conspicuous of the set. He seems to have been the author and the writer whilst the others were probably the publishers; and, with varying title, and apparently with but indifferent success, his name is found connected with newspapers as "When the reign of James the First was drawing to a close; when Ben Jonson was poet laureate, and the personal friends of Shakspeare were lamenting his recent death; when Cromwell was late as 1640." trading as a brewer at Huntingdon; when Milton was a youth of sixteen, just trying his pen at Latin verse, and Hampden a quiet country gentlemen in Buckinghamshire; London was first solicited to patronise its first newspaper. There is no reason to doubt that the puny ancestors of the myriads of broad sheets of In continuation of the statistics of Florida Keys and Wreckers, as given in the Industrial Resources, we give the following table, for which we are indebted to E. J. Gomez, Esq., Spanish consul, and agent for insurance companies of Spain and Cuba, at Key-West STATEMENT OF VESSELS WRECKED ON THE FLORIDA COAST, AND ASSISTED BY THE KEY WEST $789,911 47. Value of vessels and cargoes. $725,000 00 737,000 00 1,462,917 77 535,000 00 200,060 00...... 1,282,000 00 We have often had occasion to refer to the prodigious advances of Georgia in every element of material wealth, and the reader will find in the Industrial Resources quite a chapter upon the subject. We add the following additional items: 165,085 00. .$1,321,678 03 1,305,000 00 929,500 00 941,500 00 .$7,918,217 77 .$531,766 56.. In castings, Georgia has four establishments, with a capital invested of $35,000. They consume 440 tons pig Es * Many of these vessels were lost in the severe hurricane experienced on the 11th of October. timated number of vessels lost or injured on the Keys since 1823, 1200; of the value with cargoes, $40,000,000. From the 1st January to 1st Sept., 1852, 21 vessels reached Key West in distress or for repairs. Galena Mines-New-York Expenditure, &c. 403 Negroes. Capita!. Licences. 1st....... 5,414,215.. 485,400.. 187,255.. 3,855 594,000.. 497,695.. 6.768 542,600.. 6,313,930.. 53,342 2nd...... 6,708,905. 3rd. ...18,590,480.. entire value of product, $88,750. In The assessment returns of the value of cotton goods she has over thirty-five property in New-Orleans for 1852, show: establishments-capital invested, $1,730- Rep. Dist. Real Estate. 156; number of bales of cotton consumed, 20,230; value of raw material, $900,419; the number of yards sheeting, etc., turned out, $7,209,292; the 5th.. value of entire product is $2,135,044; the entire amount of capital invested in 8th.. 1,613,880.. 172,500.. Negroes, &c. 2,179 Georgia in manufactures is $1,859,156: 9th.. .... 1,837,030.. 245,100.. 80,400.. 2,581 the entire product, $2,329,294. We have seen a letter from J. V. Phil lips upon the subject of the lead mines of Galena and the Upper Mississippi, in which he states that not more than five per cent. of the lead has yet been removed, in value about 35 or $40,000,000, though the product has been yearly decreasing. 4th... 8,767,250.. 325,000.. 2,308,550.. 14,778 6th... 7th. 6,857,760.. 589,800.. 536,475.. 11,808 3,919,225.. 380,700.. 383.150.. 4,386 2,394,730.. 261,600.. 187,300.. 5,454 Real Est. 56,103,475..3,596,700..10,494,755.. 105,181 Total, $70,194,930 The amount of taxes for public schools in New-Orleans for 1852, was $70,194 93. The state tax, 11 cents on the $100, reached $105,181 00. Previous to the consolidation of the municipalities the debt of New-Orleans was estimated as Production of Lead in pigs of 70 lbs., of the " "Upper Mines," for seven years, from 1846 to 1852, in- follows, and has been secured in its principal and interest by that measure of reform: clusive. Pigs produced in 1846. 1847 1848. 1849. 64 1852. Notwithstanding this great falling off, which, if continued, would close the mines in a few years, the price of lead has been steadily rising. The average price of lead in 1847 may be set down at $3 60 per 100 lbs., and in 1852 at $4 10 on the levee at Galena. The estimated expenditure of the City of New-York, for all purposes, in 1853, is as follows: For expenditure of the City Government, exclusive of Police, Lamps and Gas... M. II. III. M. Debt proper. II .2,298,048 66.. .1,590,810 85.. 357,947 35. Total. .1,961,281 63 .3,888,859 51 .1,258,132 72 4,240,226 46 ...2,868,047 40....7,108,273 86 The following are the number of ships engaged in the North Pacific fishery for the last eleven years, and the averaged 325,000 00 quantity of oil taken:-1841, 20 ships averaged 1,412 barrels-28,200 barrels ; 1842, 29 ships averaged 1,627 barrels― 47,200 barrels; 1843, 108 ships averaged gislature for authority to levy...... $3,479,938 00 1.349 barrels-146,800 barrels; 1844, There is said to be a considerable quantity of whale oil on hand in NewYork, mostly return shipments from Europe, but we are unable to ascertain the amount. The following table will show the amount of oil and whalebone on hand from 1852 to 1845, inclusive: Jan. 1, 1852. 1851. 1850.. 1849. Sperm. Whale. Bone. 77,130 Half Dollars.. 18,663,500 Three Cent Pieces. 27,549,555 Pieces. 5,162,094 Cents 32,711,649 Pieces COPPER. 153,550 00 50,025 00 559,905 00 $52,352,948 50 $51,620 94 $52,404,569 44 We gather from official reports, made to the last session of the legislature of 19,350.....36,500 unknown. Virginia, the following particulars relating to the commerce of her great public 994,600 works:— 3,610. .14,062. .242,000 3,760 13.000. .440,000 .10,147. .20,936. Statement showing the amount of Tonnage and the Estimated Value thereof, imported into the City of Richmond, on the James River and Kanawha Canal, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, Richmond and Danville Railroad, and the Virginia Central Railroad, during each of the last five years, together with the Freights and Tolls paid on the said Tonnage. Table exhibiting the Amount of Tonnage, Estimated Value thereof, and the Freight paid on the same, imported into the City of Richmond by means of the several Works of Internal Improvement leading into the City, during the year 1852. |