. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . n solitary rides oncow-catchers. But how-ever these things may be,certain it is that a more up-right, industrious, or enter-prising people than thosenow surrounding this sta-tion cannot be found. Largeamounts of grain areshipped from here to Phila-delphia, and the local tradeis considerable. There aretwo good hotels and apubli
. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . n solitary rides oncow-catchers. But how-ever these things may be,certain it is that a more up-right, industrious, or enter-prising people than thosenow surrounding this sta-tion cannot be found. Largeamounts of grain areshipped from here to Phila-delphia, and the local tradeis considerable. There aretwo good hotels and apublic hall near the sta-tion. A daily line ofstages runs from the Gapto White Horse, four milesdistant. Population, , fifty-three andone-half miles.—Near thisstation are the American nickel mines—theonly mines of the kind worked in the UnitedStates. These mines are owned by a com-pany, who employ about one hundred men,and ship twelve hundred tons of ;«a//(annu-ally. This matte is the nickel ore reducedby smelting to a solid mass of metal, whichis then shipped to Swansea, Wales, wherethe nickel is extracted. The mine returned,according to the census of 1870, a productof thousand dollars. There is agood hotel here, and lime-burning is carried.
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