Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-14

The improvement of the Monongahela has
made that valley one of the greatest parts
of the Pittsburg district This same effect
is now being felt in the Allegheny valley.
and from Pittsburg to Cincinnati the Ohio
valley is one great manufacturing district
fact due in the largest degree to internal
waterway Improvement.
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Overland land transit. For the week ending September
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