IS!",
ts.'i .':). I :'.: ii
liX ,.'), tt,.;-j
The canal was completed in 1S2."), an.l
thus we see that the decrease of the real
and personal property of the slate in the
ten yearn next preceding the completion
of tho canal was 61?,S27,77. Increase
in the ten years iuibscquent to the com
pletion of the. canal ? 2ti.,l i 0,(:t:i. The
tolls for the first year were f. 'liJo.OOO ; in
seven yens after tho completion they
were $1 ,5 12,(W5.
Thus do we see that, by the comple
tion of the Erie canal, the personal and
real property, instead of continuing to de
crease, doubled in ten years, and the lolls
tbribblcd in seven years. And may not
Illinois safely calculate on as favorable a
result on the completion of the canal I
Once complete the canal, and the farmer
of the south can obtain his lumber that
now costs him thirty and forty dollars a
thousand, for fifteen and twenty. He can
then procure for two dollars and a half per
barrel the salt that r.ow costs him live,
lie can then (ind a ready market near
home for his wheat at a dollar per bushel,
that he now tills for fifty cents. The
merchants of the south can then obtain
their poods quicker and cheaper by the
northern route ; and the m?rc!iauti of the
north can obtain their groceries from the
Willet Terry
Selhll Fui well
Ceo F Weaver
li ( Cook
II V Iiutton '
Jehu H.iN'.iphin
John M Crotheru
V A Nan ster
Thos Van Uipcr
John N ishuler
W Ostium
Win Smith
(lo.-re Lamb
tirv chiller
Mm It M Nan?er
Mrs 11 A Ilcuricks
Catharine A (ihner
(' 11 Ware
Mrs 15 C Ware.
