. Book of the Royal blue . he change comes the foundation is laidand the superstructure under way for themost enduring monument ever reared tohuman handicraft. When commerce reached the forks ofthe Ohio it found nothing in the way ofhuman habitation save the tepees of theIndiin; and Fort Dufjuesne, occupied byFlench soldiers. The military rule of theI rent h stimulated trading between thewhite frontiersmen and the Indians for thetime, but when the English occujiied thefolks and built Fort Pitt it was foundtint French hostility had so embitteredthe Indians against the newcomers that(ommercial r
. Book of the Royal blue . he change comes the foundation is laidand the superstructure under way for themost enduring monument ever reared tohuman handicraft. When commerce reached the forks ofthe Ohio it found nothing in the way ofhuman habitation save the tepees of theIndiin; and Fort Dufjuesne, occupied byFlench soldiers. The military rule of theI rent h stimulated trading between thewhite frontiersmen and the Indians for thetime, but when the English occujiied thefolks and built Fort Pitt it was foundtint French hostility had so embitteredthe Indians against the newcomers that(ommercial relations with them were wellnigh suspended. It was not until the closeof the Revolution that mercantile tradingwas lesumed to a noteworthy extent, andthen was born the commerce of ITS^ more than sixty wagon-loads ofgoods reached Pittsburg from the East,and by 1786 traffic on the Ohio Riverhad become a feature of Western trading. The Pittshtirgh Gazette of 1786 shows ahealthy expansion of trade, and its columns. WHARF. NEAR SMITHFIELD STREET THE RISE OF AN INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE.
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