. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . nosure of theeyes of the world. Space permits but a rapid glance at her great natural advantages and the results she has reached by making wise use of them. At the terminus of deep-water navigation on the lakes, Buffalo quickly transfers the cargoes of the grain- 6 laden steamer to the huge bins of her elevators, and, perhaps,while transferring it to canal boat or railroad cars the vessel isreloading with anthracite for her return voyage. She is therailroad center of more millions of people than any other cityon the co
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . nosure of theeyes of the world. Space permits but a rapid glance at her great natural advantages and the results she has reached by making wise use of them. At the terminus of deep-water navigation on the lakes, Buffalo quickly transfers the cargoes of the grain- 6 laden steamer to the huge bins of her elevators, and, perhaps,while transferring it to canal boat or railroad cars the vessel isreloading with anthracite for her return voyage. She is therailroad center of more millions of people than any other cityon the continent. Her grain receipts last year by lake were215,000,000 bushels. Trollope was greatly interested in the incessant stream ofthe moving grain, and gigantic elevators are conspicuousin any view of the city. Joseph Dart built the first one in1842, when it was predicted that Irishmens backs were,after all, the cheapest elevators. Joseph Darts elevator,with a capacity of fifty-five thousand bushels and the power ofraising a thousand bushels an hour, has been succeeded by. Buffalo Harbor. more than one of a capacity of over a million bushels elevatingtwenty thousand bushels an hour. Yet great as is Buffalo as the outlet of the lakes and theterminus of the Erie Canal, her chief greatness and powerto-day comes from the tribute of the railroad systems. As MissWelch wrote: * To win the heart of this queen city to-dayyou must court her in the role of a railway king. No city,save one, owes so much to railroads as does Buffalo. Herterminal facilities are unequaled, and her transfer yards atEast Buffalo are the largest in the world, with the outlyingcountry encompassed for miles about by a network of tracks,approaching closer and closer as they near the city, andextending around the harbor side to pour their freight of coal,salt, and petroleum into the lake vessels in return for a cargo7
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