The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-11-13
PITTSBURGH
SUMMARIZED.

The name should properly be
spelled with an "h" as originally,
but many writers in these later
days drop its use, phonetically.
The city ofPittsburgh is of great
historic interest. The territory
occupied by it was originally
claimed by the French by right
of discovery in 1869. The Eng
liahs took possession, but we're
driven out. Then the English
defeated the French and estab-
lished Fort Pitt in 1758. 1t was
incorporated as the city of Pitts
burg in 1916, with a population
Hess tbsh 6 6,00O. To day its popa.
latlon is more than 100000, and
within a radius of Is miles, with
Pittsburgh as a center, is a homo
geneous population of fully l.
100000, which, if consolidated,as
it sooner or later will be, the
Greater Pittsburgh, fourth in
population and first in productive
interests in the United States. 1t
is situated on the banks of the
Allegheny and Mononghela riv-
ers, their junction forming the
Ohio, 1000 miles long, joining
the waters of the Mississippi and
giving the city a navigable sys-
tenn of waterways more than g.
900 miles in extent carrying the
commerce of the Pittsburgh dis
trict to tidewater. 1t will be of
interest to our readers to know
that the Pittsburgh district has a
greater production of the follow
ing manufactures than any other
city in America, probably than
any In the world. Steel and iron,
steel cars, steel and wrought iron
pipe, tin plate, air brakes and
electrical machinery, plate glass,
window glass and tableware,
tumblers, coal and coke, fire brick
and clay, petroleum, white lead,
corks, pickles, colossal industries
cover 40 square miles of area in
this city, and men and money of
this great city control equally
large industries in the neighbor-
ing counties aud many of the
leading cities of the country.
These conditions have been
brought about too without the
use of special inducements of
sites, money or exemptions from
taxation. The great coal pro-
duclng fields OF which Pittsburg
is the center are estimated to con-
tain sufficient coal to last seven
years at the present rate OF pro-
duction, about 35.000,000 tons a
year. This coal has a world wide
reputation for cheapness aud ex-
cellence and is prime factor in
securing to Pittsburg its industri'
al pre- eminence. Other countries
will pay tribute to Pittsburgh for
fuel supplyin the future, thus as
surfing industrial supremacy in
perpetuity. Not counting freight
in transit, 100000 cars were re-
quired last year to handle Pitts
burgh's 8O,OOO,OOO tons of rail
freight, to which must be added
100000 tons of river and har-
Dor traffic The IL railways and
the river and harbor facilities are
positively inadequate to the de-
mands upon them The suprem-
acy of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania,
in iron and steel production is
made possible only by the trans
portation of iron ore by water
from the Lake Superior region,
900 miles to the lower lake har-
bors, at an operating cost of SO
cents a ton, or one-tenth the
probable rail rate and its delivery
in Pittsburgh at a transportation
charge of $1.OO a ton. The wa
terways ofthe great lakes furnish
transportation for about 100000
600 tons annually, mostly in the
ores of the Lake Superior region,
and at a cost of half a mill a ton
per mile,th United States is en-
abled to compete successfully
with the world in iron and steel
production.
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