. Wilkes-Barré, the diamond city; a study of its remarkable progress as indicated by its growth during the last five years. The Quackenbusli Co. StorageBennett Streel St. Marys R. (. Parochial Scl I Smith Washington Street Wilkes-Barres Credit is Good Anywhere and professedly more vigorous cities, in orderthat dire financial calamity might be Wealth is Worth andit Faces the Future Without Fear. A STRIKING GROWTH The rapid growth of Wilkes-Barre duringthe years of which this publication treats, is moststriking when compared with its previous rate ofgrowth and is made more
. Wilkes-Barré, the diamond city; a study of its remarkable progress as indicated by its growth during the last five years. The Quackenbusli Co. StorageBennett Streel St. Marys R. (. Parochial Scl I Smith Washington Street Wilkes-Barres Credit is Good Anywhere and professedly more vigorous cities, in orderthat dire financial calamity might be Wealth is Worth andit Faces the Future Without Fear. A STRIKING GROWTH The rapid growth of Wilkes-Barre duringthe years of which this publication treats, is moststriking when compared with its previous rate ofgrowth and is made more impressive when it isseen that the reports for the current year indicateno sign of a slackening of this spirit of Residence of Paul Dasch, South Franklin Street BUILDING FIGURES SHOW PROGRESS The building for the first five years of theperiod of 1900-1910 as compared with the lastfive years, show values nearly four times as largefor the latter period as follows : 1900 .$ 566,-179 1901 455,514 1902 495,880 550,337 1904 574,345 1905 SI,489,899 1906 2,224,833 1907 2,486,861 1908 1,660,986 1909 2,121,234 Total* ,640,555 $9,983,813 Much of this value is represented in largebanking and business houses but the rate of
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