Excerpt from Pittsburgh Its Industry Commerce, Embracing Statistics of the Coal, Iron, Glass, Steel, Copper, Petroleum, and Other Manufacturing Interests of Pittsburgh The papers on the various subjects treated of, have been prepared with great care and thoroughness of research. The aim has been to give the truth. Exaggeration would destroy their value, and defeat the purpose contemplated. We think they will justify the conclusion, that from the very nature of things - the logic of facts, as it were - no city in the Union presents such inducements as are set forth by the workshops, the mills, foundries and factories of Pittsburgh. In cheapness of production, in the character of goods and wares, and in accessibility by river and rail to markets, the Iron City challenges the competition of continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.