Did anyone notice how rich the two rivers is?

Like theres gold silver iron loads of farms carpet makers and a whole assortment of other trades that produce goods, the two rivers could be one of the richest places if it had time to develop

I believe that much of those are recent developments since the refugees have come over the Mountains of Mist within the last 6 mos. to a year.  Prior to that in-flux of tradesmen, miners, etc. the main good of the two-rivers was Tabac and wool. 

 

I believe you are right though, it will probably become extremely prosperous fairly quickly.

Well if you think about it, at one time one of the most prosperous and powerful cities was located in this area.  so of course there are great natural resources.  people just thought it was unlucky to travel to the mountains (where Menetheran was).