{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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THE IRos DisTRicT.-The iron district, which spreads through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary hand, and Western Virginia, traVerses regions exu- berant with coal, and aboundng m water.power 1; and, travelling further West, we find in Ohio. Ken lucky, and particularly in Missouri, immense stores of meta aierous wealth, adjacent 10 the most fertile agricultural districts IL is to Pennsy lvana, howev- CT. we must chiefly direct our attention, where two ffIs of all the iron in ihe United States is made The United States contain 80, ,OO0 square miles of coal, which is about sixteen times IS great as the coal measures of Europe. single one of these gl- ganic masses runs from Pennsylvania to Alabama and must embrace, itsef 50 900 square miles. Out of fifty counties of Pennsyvana, less than thirty have coal and iron in them; and, out of the 46 900 square miles ot pennsy l,ania, which form superices, there are 10000 miles of coal and iron; while all Great Britain and Ireland have only 2000--so that Pennsylvania alone has of coal and iron five times great as that ofGreat Britain. The quality of coal iron rich that of Great Brita in and they have inc advantage of lying near the water level; while those of tlis latter country are some- times more 'han thousand feet below the surface and are exca,aied through Mhierranean passages -. Hunts Merchants Magazine.