Report of the Committee of the Senate of Pennsylvania: Upon the Subject of the Coal Trade; Read in the Senate, March 4, 1831, and Ordered to Be Printed (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Report of the Committee of the Senate of Pennsylvania: Upon the Subject of the Coal Trade; Read in the Senate, March 4, 1831, and Ordered to Be Printed

The coal trade of pennsylvarria, recently and sudden] starting ia to existence; now constitutes one of the main branches 0 our domes tic industry, and an important portion of the commerce of the State and the Union. It has given a new stimulus to individual aswell as national enterprise, and afi'ords active and profitable employment for numerous and various classes of the community. It has produced a spirit of improvement, interspersin the country with canals and rail roads, which, by connecting the tant parts together, promote the convenience and prosperity of the people, while they add to the strength and elevate the character of the State. It has raised tip in our for merly barren and uninhabited districts, an intelligent and permanent population, and converted the mountains into theatres of busy life, and our hitherto waste and valueless lands, into sites for flourishing and populous villages. It has Opened 3 new field for the investment of capital, the expenditure of labour, and the pursuit of all the purposes of civilization and society. Its benefits are not alone confined to those engaged'immediately in the trade, but are becoming general and universal. Possessing all the varieties of their species, anthracite and bituminous; furnishing a cheap and preferable article of fuel and afibrding new facilities to the manufacturer, whose products enter into all the ramifications of domestic as well as foreign consumption, the mineral coals of Pennsylvania now exert an influence upon every other branch of trade, and afford the means of rearing and perma nently supporting, on this side of the Atlantic, all tit mechanic arts and handicraft of the old world.

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