Jasper County Democrat, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — MINERAL WEALTH OF INDIANA [ARTICLE]

MINERAL WEALTH OF INDIANA

money. On the other hand, a country rich In raw material, but without natural fuels, remains a country ot agriculturists and shepherds, with an unskilled laboring class—usually an aristocratic, landowning class and a low-scale, unskilled laboring class. The coal deposits of England made the foundation of a great industrial and commercial nation. Pennsylvania early took the lead In Industrial enterprise* in the United States for th* same reason. It ha* been demonstrated that It Is cheaper to haul the Lake Superior Iron ores to Pittsburg than to take the Pennsylvania fuel to the Iron regions of Minnesota and Michigan. While the Lake Superior regions have the greatest and cheapest iron ore deposits In the country, they have not created any great industrial centers, but the natural resources of those states go to maintain Industrial centers of states that have the fuel, such as Pennsylvania and Indiana. The chief industrial centers of Colorado are not In the gold and sliver raining districts, but they are in proximity to the coal deposits of that state, where the smelting plants ere located, for It was demonstrated by Yctual experiment that it,was cheaper to haul the ore down to the coal supply than to haul the fuel to th# mining camps. And so It Is with Indiana. If the state had no other resources but Its fuels. It would still remain a great factor In tho Industrial world, for It would draw on other states, as It Is now largely doing, for raw material. However, Indiana has an abundance of raw materials, especially In the constructive and-building lines. Ths timber resources, especially In ths hard woods, ars still extensive.

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