. The Street railway journal . d the county, ac-cording to the census report of 1900,contains 159,241. Last year thecompany carried 5,500,000 passen-gers, and also did considerable lightfreight and express business. Thisis a very prosperous community,and Lancaster County claims to bethe wealthiest agricultural sectionof the United States. The freightbusiness consists principally inhandling agricultural products,cigars, tobacco and milk. Thecompany for some time has oper-ated a freight car between Lancas-ter and Columbia, making regularschedule trips. Small packages arealso carried on combinati
. The Street railway journal . d the county, ac-cording to the census report of 1900,contains 159,241. Last year thecompany carried 5,500,000 passen-gers, and also did considerable lightfreight and express business. Thisis a very prosperous community,and Lancaster County claims to bethe wealthiest agricultural sectionof the United States. The freightbusiness consists principally inhandling agricultural products,cigars, tobacco and milk. Thecompany for some time has oper-ated a freight car between Lancas-ter and Columbia, making regularschedule trips. Small packages arealso carried on combination expressand passenger cars. At the present time all of thelight and power interests as well asthe railway lines in LancasterCounty are controlled by the Lan-caster County Railway & LightCompany, which is a holding cor-poration chartered under the laws of New Jersey. Through its ownership of the securities of theConestoga Traction Company, Lancaster Gas Light & FuelCompany, Edison Electric Illuminating Company and the.
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