Identifier: americapicturesq01cookuoft (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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PITTSBUEG DEVELOPMENT. 325 has been pointedly described by one who thus for thefirst time looked upon the Smoky City, far downin its deep basin among- the high hills, as appearinglike Hell with the lid off. There are plenty ofrailways in the scene, and scores of odd-looking,stumpy-prowed little steamboats built high above theAvater, having huge stern-wheels to drive them, withtheir noses thrust up on the sloping levee along theriver bank, Avhereon is piled the cargoes, chiefly ofiron products. The swift current turns all the sternsdown stream, so that they lie diagonally towards theshore. Fleets of flat, shallow coal barges are mooredalong, waiting to be made up into tows for tkeirjourney down the Ohio, as Pittsburg has an exten-sive river trade, covering over twenty thousand milesof Western waters. Out of the weird and animatedscene there come all sorts of busy noises, forges andtrip-hammers pounding, steam hissing, railroad trainsrunning, Avhistles screeching, locomotives puffing,be

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