. Book of the Royal blue . A\ EM K, (AIM-; 11, Mat™ ■ojiyright, 1?94, t-y Harper A Brntlie TYiiiAi. i;.\THiNii scKNi; at Atlantic i-ity. IN THE REALMS OF OLD KING COKE. BV .WILLIAM GILBERT IRWIN. CROM an industrial standpoint the■*• great Connellsville Coke Region ofSouthwestern Pennsylvania, throughthe heart of which passes the line of theBaltimore and Ohio Road, is one of themost interesting sections of the UnitedStates. Pittsburg has been styled theunique city of our great Republic, and,while she owes her greatness to such amyriad of diversified circumstances andf

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. Book of the Royal blue . A\ EM K, (AIM-; 11, Mat™ ■ojiyright, 1?94, t-y Harper A Brntlie TYiiiAi. i;.\THiNii scKNi; at Atlantic i-ity. IN THE REALMS OF OLD KING COKE. BV .WILLIAM GILBERT IRWIN. CROM an industrial standpoint the■*• great Connellsville Coke Region ofSouthwestern Pennsylvania, throughthe heart of which passes the line of theBaltimore and Ohio Road, is one of themost interesting sections of the UnitedStates. Pittsburg has been styled theunique city of our great Republic, and,while she owes her greatness to such amyriad of diversified circumstances andfavorable advantages that it would bedifficult to assign her greatness to anyone of her vast resources, yet were itpossible to single out any one resourcewhich more than any other has beenconducive to the rise of the Iron City,that one would be her boundless fuelsuppl}. Her raw coal fields have givenPittsburg a greater water tonnage thanthat of New York City. Close to herdoors lies the greatest coke region onterra firnia. To trace in elaborate

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