(Table 1.) In 1850, Chicago numbered 29,963,
and in 1860, 109,260. St. Louis, 77,860 in 1850, and 160,773 in 1860.
(Table 40.) From 1840 to 1850 the ratio of increase of Chicago was
570.31, and from 1850 to 1860, 264.65, and of St. Louis, from 1840 to
1850, 372.26 per cent., and from 1850 to 1860, 106.49. If both increased
in their respective ratios from 1860 to 1870 as from 1850 to 1860,
Chicago would number 398,420 in 1870, and St. Louis, 331,879. It would
be difficult to say which city has the greatest natural advantages, and
yet when St. Louis was a city, Chicago was but the site of a fort.
PROGRESS OF WEALTH.--By Census Table 36, the cash value of the
farms of Illinois in 1860, was $432,531,072, and of Missouri,
$230,632,126, making a difference in favor of Illinois of $201,898,946,
which is the loss which Missouri has sustained by slavery in the single
item of the value of her farm lands. Abolish slavery there, and the
value of the farm lands of Missouri would soon equal those of Illinois,
and augment the wealth of the farmers of Missouri over two hundred
millions of dollars. But these farm lands of Missouri embrace only
19,984,809 acres (Table 36), leaving unoccupied 23,138,391 acres. The
difference between the value of the unoccupied lands of Missouri and
Illinois, is six dollars per acre, at which rate the increased value of
the unoccupied lands of Missouri, in the absence of slavery, is
$148,830,346.
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