The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-07-02
PITTSBURGH AND CHICAGO.

position and Importance of these two
great cities of the West, that we copy
the article in our paper
The Times article is founded ON the
recent exhibit issued by the Pittsburgh.
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Com
pany, heretofore noticed by US and is
entitled
P1rTsBuRGH, FoRT WAYNE AND CHr-
cAGo RA1LwAY.-This road occupies a
remarkable position on the railway map
Of the United States, SO much so that
without violent figure of speech we
may call it the line which Joins the foci
of the country. For, while Pittsburgh
stands unrivaled as manufacturing GEN.
ter, Chicago is aanifestly the center of
the greatest agriculture. When you fiat.
ten circle into an ellipse, you give it
two centers or 1oei, both of which radiate
to the circumference, but the most i'm
portant line in the figure is that part of
the radius of either which is common to
both, that is, the line which joins the
foci. The great illipse OF, the northern
States has its foci nearly FIVE hundred
miles apart, and so much do they differ
from each other in their natural resources
that they seem fitted to make their for
tunes by trading with each other. There
! is hardly anything worth having, posi-
BILE to their latitude, which viii not be
found in the highest perfection in one or
the other of them. Hence they needon-
lly to be joined by direct railway commu-
nication still more to enhance the great
advantages which have already made
each first in its line.
Pittsburgh dates back to the former
century, though its fellow focus, Chicago,
hardly can, for its first house, begun in
1896, was not finished till 1904. But
the first year OF the nineteenth century
found Pittsburgh a village of hewed logs
with 1865 inhabitants. 1t has steadily
and rapidly increased in population since
that time, and in wealth still more rapid
| ly, especially since the era of steam nav
igation. = Counting its suburbs, which
cover an area of about five miles square,
its population is now estimated at 130.-
900, and for that figure it does more
hammering while the iron is hot, and
turns out more handiwork of one sort
or another, perhaps. than any other hive
Iof industry in the world. Drones do not
like to breathe the air of Pittsburgh, and
) give it wide berth A recent enume-
ration gives about 400 manu- featuring es-
tablishments to the population above
L named.
!, The value of the coal, iron and manu-
frctured articles produced in 1854 was
: estimated in Hunts Merchants Moga-
:; zine at s SO, 100000. The coal consumed
and exported per anngm does not now
: fall short of taoo millions of tons, and the
> supply is inexhaustible. The consump-
ton of pig iron. blooms, and scraps. in
1854, was estimated to be 1875 tons.
5 With abundance of lumber of the best
II description from the mountain regions
: drained by the great rivers which meet
in its center to form the Ohio, and the
L best climate in the world. with very invi-
g ting scenery in its vicinity, Pittsburgh
has only to work out its manifest destiny,
u which is to be the Birmingham of this
. continent, distancing the other in size as
. much as the continent does the island.
, We need hardly .allude to the marvel
e Gus statistics of Chicago, having lately
u and often given enough to tax the credu-
: lity of every untraveled reader. A city
&c which has grown in bali a generation
:, from population of 5000 to over 1o0,-
81 600, and which, while at the head of the
greatest lake navigation IN the world.
!. counts a dozen long lines ofrailmay pour
L ing people and merchandise into her boz
L. som from the three quarters OF her hort
'e zon which are not water, IS OF course the
r wonder of the world. If history pre-
y sents any parallel, we are not aware of it.
Sc tits not the present population of Chiea-
> 90 compared with its past, which is SO
! wonderful, but the means already deyei-
4 loped for increasing that population. Five
years ago Chicago had but forty miles OF
T. railway. Now It is the center of a net
'r work of three thousand sir handred and
lh seueaty sir miles, which will be doubled
e in FIVE years more by the completion OF
o' the lines under contract. The roads cen
!, r. tering in Chicago, already completed'
H. earn over seueateen mitt,oas OF dollars an
q, nually. The railway earnings on the
u same ground in 1852 were but $40, 900
he The Grain received at Chicago in year
d. new amounts to $4,000, 600 bushels
all With such facilities for collecting and
nd shinpinp it, with back country the cul-
lai tiyatiou of which is only commenced
n what will be theamount ten years hence
Sc. such a garden of fertility was never be
fore so opened to a hungry world. bu'
the attractions hitherto have been ONLY
IN for laborers, contractors, men who hae
5: their fortunes to make by creating CIV
raj lzation That civilization is now Gre
is, ated, and stands out with unriyaleo ap
ne pliances. Chicago now attracts Weal.,
he and talent of all sorts as well as slrengel
ess and productive skill, and hence It's pro
he. press for the next half generation mus
at. be more marvellous than that OF the las,
3re This is enough for the termsshs, whic
Iod always determine the financial destiny
eefI a road, having power to make 1t trayers =,
in. desert pro6tably. But in this case To
I'VE intervening territory is hardly to be e.
we ceeded for it's mineral and agrlcnltur
'eir wealth. Including The counties ~ Wnic
lev the ternini are located, it passes shfouS
the following twenty-four
I5,e =, I,,e2penusvycenia--Allegheny, Beaver an
hes Lawrence.
ms y, Oh;o--Columbiana. Mahoning, STAR
nv Wayne, Richland, Ashland, Holme
ion Crawford, Wyandot, Allen, Hardi
nn- and Van Vert.
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