St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-06-06

! fully realize that they are the subjects
| for trial for murder. but they will soon
| find this out. Two or three of the wal
! riurS are involved III the murder of
/ Gen. Candy and others with INN. aud
/ i'll like deeds of II prior date.
Pittsburgh and its Manufactures.
Pittsburgh proper Is situated on Il
/ the junction of the Allegheny and
| Mou"mgahcla rivers. Nhcn united these
/ rivers form the Ohio. Across he MonuIi-
, gaheia from ttsburgh is the manu-
1 featuring city of birmingham while
on the opposite side. aci"s> the Nile
/ ghrmN river. is the city of Allegheny.
! Both these places are connected with
/ Pittsburgh hy several bridges over
which steam aud horse ears are run
and the three cities are in fact one. with
/ a united population of two hundred
/ Thousand people.
/ Pittsburgh is a dirty hut rich city.
/ it, smoke and smut are notorious. and
ever present. They are the unavoida-
/ bile attendants of blast furnaces and
/ hitumiuOuS coal. Its wealth has been
| dug from the earth which il here rich
| with iron. coal. lead aud oil Ii is not
unusual to see II tram-way running from
a coal mine in the bluffs above he city.
directly INTO the manufactures which
are situated ut the foot of the hills near
the river. These tram ways aIe double
track, and the loaded ear descending
draws an empty car back to the mine.
With coal and iron 50 handy. costing
merely the expense of mining. it Is no
wonder that manufacturing here has
been such II success.
Pittsburgh Ii surrounded and hem
med i'll 10y high. steep huffs. y view
from the top of these in Il dark night is
one of the attractions for visitors. The
red flames from the crIpolas of the large
number of blast furnaces. glass manu-
factories. etc. light up the smoky dark
ness making gIand spectacle. These
same high bluffs prevent the city from
spreading or!t. so crowded i it. and
so scarce are huilding sites. that some
of the miners and workmcn in the mills
have hung their houses on the sides of
these bluffs. say huHg them, for the
bluffs are ;" steep that the only way to
reach these houses is 10y long flights of
steep stairs.
If there is Il reader OF the CnIcdOnian
VIII" thinks he has uncommon hard
work to do. | wish he might spend IL
day i'll these Pittsburgh factories. The
rolling mills. the glass manufactures.
the steel works. etc, require an amount
of strength and endurance in their opcr-
atives that is astonishing. The hand
ling of reH-hOt rails. melted glass.
cruciblcs of molten steel, with the mer-
curry at 80 degrees in the shade. requires
not only strength and skill. but the
endurance of almost intolerahlc heat.
Yet am told these operatives are
healthy; but they drink neither whisky
nor ice-water while at their work.
Pittsburgh is the Sheffield OF Amer
lea. Beneath the smoke which hangs
oven the city night and day. and which
envelopes it like cloud. are the thou
sand mills and workshops which render
it the leading manufacturing city in
this country in the line of metals.
know people generally dislike statistics.
and will Use them sparingly: but there
is nothing which tells the story like
figures. To sum up the matter briefly I:
Pittsburgh makes two-thirds of all the
cast steel of the United State. over
One-third of the iron. and one-half of
all the glass. 1t is also the largest
manufacturing centre of white lead in
this country. having nine large estab-
lishments and making seven thousand
tons of white lead per annum. Its blast
furnaces turn ont $500 tons of pig iron
per week. One single establishment
manufactures over one hundred and
twenty -tive tons of iron per day.
Very large works are now being
erected tor the manufacture of steel
rails for railroads. \ new and impor-
tant industry is the smelling works for
silver ores. The present works have
a capacity of forty tons per week. hut
a new furnace is just about ready for
operation that has capacity of twenty
five tons per day. This one yields from
ten to twelve tons of pure lead. and
from seventy-fve to four hundred
ounces per ton of silver. The lead is
used by the Lead Pipe, White Lead,
and Flint Glass works. The petroleum
trade of this city amounts to I,0OO.0OO
barrels annually, large portion of
which is refined for export.
The treasure of coal about Pittsburgh
is enormous. As long ago as lsG5.
Pennsylvania produced three fourths of
all the coal in the United States. or
1900. 900 tons. The coal fields about
Pittsburgh embrace 1000 square miles.