Proceedings of a Public Meeting of the Citizens of Cincinnati, on the Subject of a Western National Armory: September 30, 1841 |
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abundant advantages of Cincinnati afford amount annual value attained bar iron bbls block 1 block branches of art buildings bushel Cincin Cincinnati in 1841 Citizens of Cincinnati coal commerce Commissioners Committee conveyance distance distributed downward navigation dwellings East Front eligible employed entirely or principally established facilities factories factures feet diameter freshets frontier furnish Government greater important improvements JACOB W Juniata iron Kentucky labor Lake Erie Lawrenceburg Licking River Linseed Oil low water machinery makers manu manufacture of arms McRee mechanical metal Miami Canal National Armory number of persons number of workmen Ohio and Mississippi Ohio River operations pig metal Pitts Pittsburgh population Pork prosperity provisions Race street Report river road ROBERT BUCHANAN shops story brick sufficient supe superior supply T. H. YEATMAN tion transaction of busi transportation tributaries turnpike unrivalled vicinity Ward water power Western Armory Western Row Whitewater Canal workshops
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Page 3 - At the conclusion of the discussion the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That in the opinion of this...
Page 7 - As we recede from the great arteries of commerce, we find the distance and difficulties of transportation increased, the supply of workmen and materials more precarious, and the facilities for the transaction of business greatly reduced. We suppose, also, that the government, in proposing the establishment of a western armory, is actuated by a double motive. 1st, By the obvious propriety, as a matter of economy and convenience, of manufacturing arms within the district of country in which they are...
Page 14 - Cincinnati amount to the annual value of $14,541,842; but by a more detailed statement made since by Mr. Charles Cist, in a work entitled "Cincinnati in 1841," those manufactures, and the number of citizens employed in them, are specified, with as much accuracy as is probably attainable, as follows : MANUFACTURES.