Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27

on Smithfeld and Diamond streets, which,
as a newspaper building, Is second to none
between New York and San Francisco for
its convenience and adsptability. The
building is as completely fre-proof In con-
struction as 1t is possible to make any
structure. The from. Is built of the best
quality of Beaver county (Pa) sandstone,
the bases being of New England granite,
highly polished. Its location is the most
central in the city, being only block from
the postof6ce, while all around and about
it are the main business houses of Pitts
burg. The entire equipment of the build
ing is new. Furniture, fittings, machinery,
presses type, appliances and accessories
are all Of the newest designs, embodying
the latest improvements
The City's sunday Newspapers.
The sworn circulation of The DISPATCH
is $4,000 daily, $4,000 Sundays, Il. 900
weekly; and the character of its constitu-
tising medium in Pittsburg. The Sunday
edition has especially been a marvel of
growth, for its circulation at the present
time, which is greater than the combined
circulation of all the other Pittsburg Sum-
day newspaper covers most "exhaustively
the entire region within a radius of 100
miles of Pittsburg. The advertising patron
age of the daily and Sunday editions of
The DISPATCH is greater than that of any
two other Pittsburg newspapers; the local
merchants finding its columns indispensable,
while shrewd and successful general adver-
tisers from Maine to California invariably
use its columns, because they have tested
and proved the paper to be the most valua-
bic and remunerative advertising medium
in Pittsburg
La4a Il, -, ha
scommodations for 5000 guests. Chief of
these is the Monongahela House, famed the
country over Other large houses are the
Seventh Avenue Hotel, Hotel Anderson,
Hotel Duquesne and Hotel Schlosser.
In SO wealthy town it is natural that
there should be a rapid enhancement of
realty values. In the last decade the tax
able values of Pittsburg and Allegheny
City have been increased by upward of
$40, 10000 A notable feature of the city's
growth is the Improvement of. its architec-
ture. Many handsome public buildings
have been erected and better taste is dis
played in the construction of private resi-
dences. There has also been a rapid devel-
opment of suburban properties consequent
upon the extension of transit facilities.
Do Business on a Large Scale.
Business operations in Pittsburg all seem
to be on a grandiose scale, and after one has
been there little while and become used
to seeing the enormous manufacturing
plants of the city, it is not surprising to
learn that one real estate firm alone has at
the present time 500, 900, 900 worth of real
estate upon its books
Pittsburg's great growth must continue,
as in the past, to be in the accretion Of in
dustries For these there is no better To-
Gated town in the country. Twenty thou
sand miles OF river transportation are open
to its products, and three of the greatest
railway aggregations in the country COM
pete strenuously for its freights, the Penn
svlvania, Baltimore and Ohio and Wander
bilt systems. At its doors are illimitable
stores of coal, iron and natural gas. Gath
cred within its limits is host of the most
skilled mechanics in the country. The
people are habituated to industry, trained
to economics of production. Invention is
in the air: the inspiration of competition,
the atmosphere of suggestion everywhere.
Last year the total freight into and out of
by rail aggregated 81, ,6Ss, ,316 tons,
and All trains, making thirteen miles of
cars enter and depart from Pittsburg daily.
The city contributes more freight to the
railways than the city of New York.
Our Coal Is World Famous.
owes us lHuuSlTidl pIe-eml-
nence primarily to coal Somewhere in the
thirties it was discovered that coal of fine
quality and in generous abundance could be
mined in the neighborhood, and in 1910 the
first boat load of Pittsburg black diamonds
was foated down the river to Cincinnati.
The operation entailed loss upon the ven
turesome person who. undertook it, but the
character of the coal was estab-
ished, and more and more energy began to |
De devoted to the exploring Of the districts |
wealth. o., -
Pittsburg is the center of the richest btu
ninous coal field yet exploited in this
country, and no ether bituminous coal ap-
,roaches that mined here in quality. Hence
he enormous strides made by the city in |
and the constant demand |
rom all parts of the country for Pittsburg
Goals. The river coal interests centering |
here employ over 10, 900 men. The average |
-early production of coal in the district is |
bout 100, 900, 900 bushels.
The article continues at considerable |
ength to exploit other features of Pitts
)urg's progress