Add this to the enhanced value of their present
farms, and the result is $1,014,106,721 as the gain, on this basis, of
Virginia in the value of her lands, by emancipation. To these we should
add the increased value of town and city lots and improvements, and of
personal property, and, with emancipation, Virginia would now have an
augmented wealth of at least one billion and a half of dollars.
The earnings of commerce are not given in the Census Tables, which would
vastly increase the difference in the value of their annual products in
favor of Pennsylvania as compared with Virginia. These earnings include
all not embraced under the heads of agriculture, manufactures, the
mines, and fisheries. Let us examine some of these statistics.
RAILROADS.--The number of miles of railroad in operation in
Pennsylvania in 1860, including city roads, was 2,690.49 miles,[4]
costing $147,283,410; and in Virginia, 1,771 miles, costing $64,958,807.
(Census Table of 1860, No. 38, pp. 230, 232.) The annual value of the
freight carried on these roads is estimated at $200,000,000 more in
Pennsylvania than in Virginia, and the passenger account would still
more increase the disparity.
CANALS.--The number of miles of canals in Pennsylvania in 1860
was 1,259, and their cost, $42,015,000. In Virginia the number of miles
was 178, and the cost, $7,817,000.
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