Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-02-14
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of rivers stretching across Pennsylyania
into Virginia and New York, and with all
the Ohio and Mississippi below it, Pitts
burg has opportunities, which have been
early, wisely, and vigorously improved,
aud which promise to make it one of the
frs;-if not the frst-of Manufacturing e
cities in the Union. Coal and Iron Ore
are abuudan, in its neighborhood, and It's
manufactures are principally Of Iron and
Glass. Yet there are varied branches Of
business in this teeming hive Of industry,
iusomuch tha, some citizens {themselves
always at work or busy really suppose
there are few if any drones, "loafers, or
iilers in Pi,tsburg. A recent publication
before me attempts an enumeration Of the
leading branches Of manufacture, &c, as
follows
"There are daily working in Pi,tsburg,
23 rolling mills for iron, and 8 maxim z
ard rolling steel exclusively; IS fouudries
for casting iron, and ) for brass; Il steam
engine aud machine shops, and 5 boiler
yards; 3 large manufac,ories Of axes, vices,
shovels, &c, and Of saws: heavy for
ges; l railroad spike factory, and > Of
hot pressed nuts; 8 iron railing factories,
8 file factories, . Of saGiery hardware, l
Of boiler anl other riyets, aod of wire
, large mauufactories oe gun barrels, l
Of rif=s, aud Of otrepea'ins pistols; , very
heavy establishments devoted to the man
ufaetu,e Of domestic hardware, iron safe
factories, Of plows, and Of cutlery and
surgical Instruments , extensive rolling
mills for copper; cotton, 3 red aud
white lead, and 81 glass factories; 1 Of
looking glasses, . of railroad cars, , of
Japan ware and pressed tin goods; 6 Of
coaches, 0 extensive ones, besides many
small ones, of wagons; 80 tanneries, 80
brexeries Of ale and Of lager bier; steam
cracker bakeries, G factories of lard and
Euseed oil, 6 potteries, 8 woOllen factories,
of oil cloths, ! Of surveying and eugiu-
eering instruments l. large tobacco fac
tories, besides number of small ones 2
patent leather manufactures fiouring 2
mills, and 2 spice mills; 16 extensive
cabinet manufac;ories, beside quite num-
Der on limited scale . OF varnish, . Of
paper, of alcohol, one Of kid gloves, 8 Of
brushes, of trunks; G large factories of
saddlery and harness, besides many on a
smaller scale; . of snddle-,rees, 2 Of um-
brellas and whips, 3 Of glue, s very heavy
Of soap and candles, 6 of eu. marble, > Of
buckets and tubs; 3 Of kegs, l of Bri;au-
MIA ware, / Of wire cloth, l of bells, Of
porcelain teeth, l Of cbildren's carriages,
! of gold leaf, Of bobbins, l of corks,
beside a great variety in all branches Of
industry usually prosecuted in great city
There are IS chartered banks, and II
private banking houses; 20 public schools,
and 3 colleges; 25 daily and weekly pub
licaiions; 81 hotels; l theatre; 25 Odd
Fellow Lodges, and 10 Of Masous; pub
lie halls, seating from a thousand to tweu-
ty-f7e hundred persons each; ; passenger
railway lines, each running TO different
quarter of the city; aud lines of rail-
roads running to different sections of the
Union, in ful! aud daily operation"
One leading and rapidly augmen,ing
branch Of trade and manufacture. uumen.
toned above, is the Coal Oil Mr. Wade
gave me 10 Lewisburg an introduction to
his house (Brewer, Sill & Coz DuQuesue
and Hancock SIS, on the Allegany. Here
We fell iu with a pioneer in the oil trade
at Titusville, who gave Us much informa-
,iou. The supply from the Oil Region is
so great that it often runs to waste, even
the Alleganys surface illustrating "rivers
of oil, aud barrels of it, in high waters,
floating away like drift logs in fre,he,
down the Susquehanna- The natural oil
we saw looks as much like the green scum
on the surface of dead frog pond, as any
,hiDg-tas,e and smell not inviting. A
large proportion Of crude oil is taken to
PIttsburg for refining, the refneries being
beyond the built-up portions. They say
the "beuzone" is Of little value in itself
used, however, to some extent, instead Of
for painting-but it must be
extracted, as that is the only portion of
the oil which is inhamable. The dealers
here select for their own use a straw-eolo-
red article, but make it lighter-colored to
suit the popular demand. L, sells a, 35
10 40 cents per gallon, at wholesale, | am
many suppose that here at leas,
i will supercede gss-At the Fort Pitt
Glass sshington ST. near Penn.
Avenue-we we're shown Z D. Dithridge's
Patent Oral Lamp Chimuey-fattened on
NO sides at the base, corresponding with
be shape Of the lamp-wick-mads of XX
lint glass, the shape Of the glass and its
uperior material Gt is eiaimed) rendering
almost impossible to crack the chimney