Pioneer history of the Holland Purchase of western New York : embracing some account of the ancient remains, and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland Company ; including reminiscences of the War of 1812 ; the origin, progress and completion of the Erie Canal, etc., etc., etc. . kes, from the following aggregates, selected from the commercialstatistics of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser for 1847:— In that year there were in commission upon the lakes, ninety-eight steamers, thirty-five propellers, four barques, eighty-twobrigs, four hundred and ninety-five schooner
Pioneer history of the Holland Purchase of western New York : embracing some account of the ancient remains, and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland Company ; including reminiscences of the War of 1812 ; the origin, progress and completion of the Erie Canal, etc., etc., etc. . kes, from the following aggregates, selected from the commercialstatistics of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser for 1847:— In that year there were in commission upon the lakes, ninety-eight steamers, thirty-five propellers, four barques, eighty-twobrigs, four hundred and ninety-five schooners, twenty-three sloopsand scows; total tonnage, 131,460 tons. Selecting only the prom- * This early and prominent Pioneer of the Holland Purchase was named in connec-tion with early events in Chautauque. His life has been one of enterprise and publicusefulness. He was the projector of the scheme of lighting the lighthouse at Barce-lona with natural gas, the only successful instance of the kind in the world. He hasbeen one of the founders of two or three now flourishing towns at the West; and yetsurvives, zealous and ardent in whatever concerns the progress of his race and age;one of the few specimens left of the excellent materials of which the early Pioneers ofthe Holland Purchase were ^4^n^^A^^ i^MWmi^ WlilLilKZi^CO;! HOLLAND PURCHASE. 643 linent articles of produce arriving at Buffalo in that year, they werelas follows:— Oats, bu 446,000 Butter, kgs 101,584 Lard, lbs 3,436,000 Cheese, bxs 30,840 6,450 Lumber, M. ft 17,313 Flour, 1,857,000 Pork « 42,000 Beef • 38,900 Staves, ps 8,800,000 Wheat, bu 6,489,100 Corn, 2,862,000 There were exported from Black Rock and Buffalo, by canal, in1847, 710,943 tons, principally the products of field and forest, ofthe regions bordering upon the western lakes. The total value ofimports of Buffalo from the lakes, in 1846, was ascertained andestimated to amount to nearly $20,000,000. In the same year,th
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