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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ridges. Four of thesebridges are crossed by street cars, three of the lines beingoperated by electricity. adjustalile dams of the Chariome wicket pattern, plannedb\- the United States government, for the improvement ofthe Ohio river. The dam cost $980,000, contains asteamboat lock 500 feet long and 110 feet wide, (the larg-est in the world), and is of very great value to the port ofPittsburg. The slopes of the basin of the Monongahelaare rich in bituminous coal, and the products of the minesare brought down to Pittsburg in boats and barges offrom 400 to 900 tons capacit\-. These barges are madeup into lleets of about 10,000 tons burden, and whenevera rise in the rivers renders the Ohio navigable, these fleetsare pushed by stern-wheel tow-boats as far as Louisville.Mere they are made up into fleets of from 20,000 to 30,-000 tons burden for the St. Louis, Cairo and New Orleanstrade, and pushed down the Mississippi to the gulf—a dis-tance of 2,TOO miles from Pittsburg. The cost of thus
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MAP OF BUSINESS CENTER OF Through the Alleghany, Monongahela and Ohio rivers,and the great water-way to the gulf, to which the Ohio istributar), more than 20,000 miles of inland navigation areopened up to the 4,000 vessels which hail from Pitts-burg. The most distant point ever touched by a Pitts-burg boat is Fort Benton, on the Missouri river, 4,300miles distant. The Pittsburg craft represents an investedcapital of nearly $10,000,000, and the aggregate tonnageexceeds that of New York City. The Monongahela riveris made navigable at all seasons of the year for 102 milesabove the city, by a series of eleven dams, with locks ofan average lift of 10 feet. By means of this e.xpedient asuHicient depth of water is maintained at all times forsteamers and coal barges drawing not more than 6 feetof water. Four miles below the city, on the Ohio river, isthe celebrated Davis Island dam—the tirst of a series of PIITSULRG ANU ALLEGHANY. transporting black diamonds along King Coals high-way is les

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