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 Pittsburgh’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.