. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . .ihpntw/rji^Afr^- jl /-/ INTERIOR OF A COAL COAL PIT MOUTH. In the Centennial Year. 145 In the foreyoiiig presentation of the collieries on the four pools of the Monon-•gahela slackwater, the amounts given as yearly mined are, while given nearlycorrect, not jiresented as the absolute turn out, although they are the approxi-mate yearly average in each case. The following table shows, however, absolute-• ly the amount passing the locks of the Monongahela Navigation Co. for thirty-oneyears, and represents the actual amount brought to the
. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . .ihpntw/rji^Afr^- jl /-/ INTERIOR OF A COAL COAL PIT MOUTH. In the Centennial Year. 145 In the foreyoiiig presentation of the collieries on the four pools of the Monon-•gahela slackwater, the amounts given as yearly mined are, while given nearlycorrect, not jiresented as the absolute turn out, although they are the approxi-mate yearly average in each case. The following table shows, however, absolute-• ly the amount passing the locks of the Monongahela Navigation Co. for thirty-oneyears, and represents the actual amount brought to the city, by that channel,for home consumption, and shipped down the Ohio during those years: Year. Pool No. pool No. 2. Pool No. 3. Pool No. 4. Total. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels. 1 ftAA 737 150 i Of*, 1845. i 2, 1,328,604 314,342 434,361) 4,605|l85 ; ? 7,778,911 3, 4,188,258 1,227,201 851,965 9J645,127 1848. 3,536,7(il 3,986,643 ,(166 859,291 9,819,361 1849. ; 2,944,044 4,420,347 1,434,723 909,393 9,708,507 1850, ,200 5,540,470 1,862,548 906,7
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