Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-25
THE BUSY B0ROUGHS.
They Are All Colonies of Pittsburg,
and She is Proud of Them.
ALL OF THEM BUSY AND GROWING.
Local Stock Values Show Large Deficiency
in Staying Power.
THE NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE cITI

The prosperous condition of Pittsburg is
clearly discerned in the rapid growth OF the
surrounding boroughs. They shine by re-
fected light, and rise or fall according as
the pulse of trade beats in the city. One of
the most prosperous Of these communities is
Williamsburg. Ten years ago a gentleman
stopping at the railroad station asked where
the town was. Now the population is not
less than 1000. In this same time property
has increased in market value over 100 per
cent The borough is we'll supplied with
stores, which furnish about everything the
citizens need. That the town is prosperous
is shown in the fact that it has just placed
large amount of school bonds bearing trifie
over per cent interest at handsome premium
Homestead is another thriving community.
The population has almo-t quadrupled in the
last decade and real estate has enhanced al
most as greatly as at Williamsburg. Judging
from indications of a most promising nature,
Homestead has bright future. Braddock and
Mckeesport are too well known as centers or
great commercial and manufacturing activity
to demand more than passing notice. Both arc
prosperous and growing boroughs. A few
years ago Braddock's only dependence for
business was the Edgar Thomson Steel Works
When they shut down merchants we're In de-
spair. Now there are so many industrial estab-
llshments that the people feel secure against
strikes or shutdowns.
Wilmerding Jeanette and Charleroi are
new and progressive towns, and seem deter
mined to make their mark. Each is full of
business and hustle Sharpsburg and Etna are
growing rapidly On the Panhandle and Fort
Wayne Railroads are a number of handsome,
prosperous towns. of which Sewlckley, Roches-
ter, Mansfield, Beaver and Ellsworth are m.,st
conspicuous. Each of them is rapidly acquir-
communities are all fourishing. All OF these
are colonies OF Pittsburg. and that she is proud
Of them goes without saying. That she will
gather them under her sheterlng wings at no
distant day is one of the pleasing prospects
held out by the future.
Plenty for ALI.
Manufacturing sites, combining all the ad-
vantages peculiar to this district. are to be had
in every direction around the two cities at
reasonable prices and on easy terms. These
sites abound on all the railroad lines and
rivers afording excellent transportation facili-
ties, with abundant supplies of natural gas and
coal from wells and mines in the neIgnbor-
hood. Manufacturers desiring to locate here
should not be deferred by reports that suitable
sites for their business are scarce and dear.
The fact is the opposite of this
Everything in Pittsburg.
The author of Wealth and Industries of
Pittsburg and Environs" says of the wholesale
and retail trade of the two cities: "Associating
Allegheny City with Pittshurg, the demands of
nearly 100000 people-mostly in prosperous cir
cumstance or earning liberal wages-are varied
and of surprising ex ent Hence we find stores
well stocked and doing large business. This
is especially true as regards the manufacturing
and mining towns with which the region is
studded. The city merchants pride themselves
in stores of metropolitan character, and have
nothing to fear, in comparison with those of
cities showing a population of equal extent
Even the most exacting and fastidious custom
ers have found that there is no necessity for
going to the Eastern cities for their household
Punishment, personal wear and the require
ments of their cuisine. All such can be suited
in PiItsburg Allegheny just as well. and
sometimes even better and at more reasonable
prices than are often demanded by those classes
of dealers in New York, Boston or Philadel-
phia. wholesome local pride has been de-
veloped on this pon in recent years that must
be mutually profitable. competent estimate
made of the wholesai and retail trade of Pitts
burg and Allegheny City shows capital ip
vested OF $50, 5A 000 of employees II. 232: and an
amount of annual average business of Sl35, ,3S7.-
000.