The booklets of the First National Bank have detailed not 
only Pittsburgh’s importance in the ordinary metals, but have 
shown its commanding position in many other activities. 
Petroleum and natural gas, aluminum, cement, cork, electrical 
machinery, radio devices, fire brick and other clay products. 
glass of every variety, railway materials and safety devices 
of the very best kinds, steel cars, tin plate, vanadium, white 
lead and paints, tobacco and the products of tobacco, and 
good products of every variety, include some of the more 
important of the City’s manufactures. 
The closing booklet of the series relates to the high position 
Pittsburgh holds in Finance, and brings the series to an end, 
marking the city’s splendid celebration of the completion of 
the nine-foot channel in the Ohio River, establishing Pitts- 
burgh’s supremacy as a port. This channel is a $100,000,000 
project, linking this city by water with such distant points as 
New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City and Minneapolis, and 
providing navigation through the whole twelve months of the 
year.