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Encyclopedia Britannica



PITTSBURG

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 678 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PITTSBURG , a city of Crawford county, Kansas, U.S.A., about 130 M. S. of Kansas City. Pop. (188o), 624; (1890), .6697; (1900) 10,112, of whom 86o were foreign-born; 0.910
census
 ), 14,755. It is situated at the intersection of four
great
  railway systemsthe Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe, the St Louis & San Francisco, the Kansas City Southern (which maintains shops here), and the Missouri Pacific, and is served by inter-urban electric railways. The city is the seat of the State
Manual
  Training Normal School (1903) and of the Pittsburg Business College. Pittsburg is situated near the lead and zinc region of
south
 -
east
  Kansas and
south
 -west Missouri, is in the midst of a large and
rich
  bituminous coalfield, and lies near natural gas and oil fields. Among the manufactures are zinc spelterthere are large smelters hereclay products (chiefly vitrified brick, sewer pipe and tile; the clay being obtained from a
great
  underlying bed of shale),
blasting
  powder, packing-
house
  products and planing-mill products. The total value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $1,824,929. Pittsburg was settled about 1879, was chartered as a city in 188o, and
became a city of the first class in 1908.


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