The age-herald., 1899-11-05
Benefits That Accrue to Trans
 pOrtdtiOn Companies Gan Only b6 Acquired bu
 BUILDING UP INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
Through the Wonderful Energy and Perseverance of MT. VdnHOOSe This District Will Soon Have Additional Water FdCiIi- ties Already En-
 iOuedbu Pitts
 burg.
BY A. M. SHOOK.

A recent industrial number of the Pitts burg Dispatch presents remarkable ex- hibit of what Pittsburg is doing. It is rep resented as the Imperial City of the world dn manufactures. The first page is high ay colored picture, representing all of the nations of the earth going through the DOT tals of Pittsburg with specifications for contracts to that great hive of industry. Prominent in the picture is John Bull ask ing for steel rails, wire nails iron and ship plates; Russia clamoring for steel rails, ar- mor plate, railway supplies; Japan for loco- motives, machinery, etc., and practically all the other nations of the world, each with specification under his arm for some particular product required that is manu- factured in Pittsburg. At one side is an in- terestng group representing music, educa- tion, science and literature. Just above and in close proximity beautiful build ings, churches, schools, universities, li- braries, science, art, music and architec- ture. All of these are the result of Pitts burgs wonderful growth. This growth Is all based primarily upon coal. The burn ing of a block of coal slowly but surely ex- bands the carbon into a gaseous form which uniting with oxygen generates in- tense heat and heat is a mode of motion, and motion Is energy. Coal Is the source of energy, next to the sun, the most potent known to man. One enthusiastic contribu- ter, boasting of Pfttsburg's wealth, claims that it is based upon its coal fields, esti- mated at 100000 tons. The amount consumed annually in the Pittsburg dis trict 100000 tons, amount mined annually 15, 5,000, 900 tons, number of miners employed 20OO0. The statistics show that this won derful district turned out during last year S500,000 tons of steel, or more than 3S per cent. of the entire production of the country; over 100000 tons of pig iron, or more than 25 per cent. of the entire output of the country; 2,500,000 tons of Bessemer steel, or more than 30 per cent. of the out put, over 100000 tons of open hearth steel, or more than 46 per cent of the output; 52 900 tons of crucible steel, or more than 5S per cent of the output; 100000 tons of structural steets, or more than GA per cent. of the output; 450,0O0 tons of plates and sheets, 30 per cent. of the output There are thirty blast furnaces and sixty steel works, with an output in Aleghany county in 1893 of over 29 per cent of the entire Iron and steel production of the United States, em- ploying in this work more than S0,000 men. These facts are stated to show the won derful growth that has accrued to a single city In this country as the result of a large deposit of superior bituminous coal.
 Among the many papers contributed to this remarkable edition is one from Andrew Carnegie, in which he takes optimistic view of Pittsburg and her future. He bases the present and future greatness of Pitts burg upon the following short, terse sen tence: "Wherever ton of steel is made cheaper to that point must gravitate the manufacture of multifarous finished ar- ticles." He also says: "To every one en- gagged in manufacturing in Pittsburg, I