What to see in America . n sevenminutes it had reached Johnstown. A little below the city the mass of houses, trees,machinery, and otherwreckage was checkedby a railway bridge. Itcaught fire, and manypersons, unable to freethemselves from thedebris, were burned todeath. The estimatedtotal loss of life variesfrom 2300 to to the value ofat least $10,000,000 wasdestroyed. Western Pennsylvaniais a famous region forpetroleum. The namemeans rock oil, and issuggestive of the sourcewhence the petroleum comes. In the oil region, even intraveling on the train, one sees numerous oil wells,
What to see in America . n sevenminutes it had reached Johnstown. A little below the city the mass of houses, trees,machinery, and otherwreckage was checkedby a railway bridge. Itcaught fire, and manypersons, unable to freethemselves from thedebris, were burned todeath. The estimatedtotal loss of life variesfrom 2300 to to the value ofat least $10,000,000 wasdestroyed. Western Pennsylvaniais a famous region forpetroleum. The namemeans rock oil, and issuggestive of the sourcewhence the petroleum comes. In the oil region, even intraveling on the train, one sees numerous oil wells, both inoperation and deserted. The great center of this oil dis-trict is Oil City, and there you can see all the processes ofprocuring, preparing, and shipping the oil and its is estimated that from the valley of Oil Creek, north ofOil City, oil to the value of $200,000,000 was taken in theten busy early years. The present yield is has an especial claim on the sight-seer because there. Old (, ii L KCH AT Economy Pennsylvania 127 the underground reservoir of oil was first tapped by boringin 1859. Interesting visits may be made down the creekto the hamlets which grew with magic rapidity into populouscities in the boom period, and almost as suddenly oil in its natural state is a thick dark yellow or brownishfluid, but when refined becomes clear colorless kerosene the wells the oil goes to the refineries in pipes, some ofwhich are hundreds of miles long. Up in the northwest corner, the state has a fifty-mile coastline on Lake Erie, where the most populous city is one withthe same name as the lake. The city is a fishing port of im-portance, which lends its wharves a certain attraction, andon its outskirts, overlooking the lake, is a facsimile of anold French blockhouse that used to stand there. The grapeindustry flourishes all the way from here to Buffalo, and thecountry is most lusciously attractive in autumn when theharves
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