{"newspaper_name": "Indiana State sentinel.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
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THE IRON DISTRICT OF THE UNITED STATES
The Iron District which spreads through New Jersey,
Pennsy ylvania, Maryland and Western Virginia, ira
verses regions exuberant with COAL and abounding
water-power, and travelling further West, we find in
Ohio kentucky, and particularly in Missouri immense
stores of metaliferous wealth adjacent the most
fertile agricultural districts 1t is to Pennsylvania,
however, must chiefly direct our attention, where
two ths of all the iron in the United States is made
The United States contain $4,000 square miles of
COAL which is about sixteen times great the coal
measures of Europe. single one of these gigantic
masses runs from Pennsylvania to Alabama, and must
embrace, ITSELF 5000 squire miles. Out of ffty
counties of Pennsylvania, less than thirty have
coal and iron in them; and, out of the $4,000 square
miles of Pennsylvania, which form supercies, there
10000 miles of coal and iron while all Great
Britain and Ireland have only 2,0O0-so that Penn
sylvania alone has an area of coal and iron five times
great that of Great Britain The quality of the
coal Or iron is rich that of Great Britain and


they have the advantage of lying the waterlevel
while those of the latter country sometimes more
than one thousand feet below the surface, and are
excavated through subterranean passages.-Hanfs S
Merchants Magazine.