The Story of Pittsburgh 
ry 
ERSONS who have been in the habit of regarding Pitts- 
burgh as “The Workshop of the World,” with iron and 
steel as its basic products, and as a great market for 
coal and coke, with continually enlarging business in petro- 
eum products and natural gas, as detailed in previous issues 
of this series of booklets, will no doubt be surprised at the 
foremost place held by this city in the manufacture and dis- 
position of “Food Products.” 
The State of Pennsylvania is known all over the world as 
a Commonwealth of mechanical manufactures. Were it not 
for this eminence, it would be known as a great agricultural 
and stock raising commonwealth. If it had no vast iron mills, 
coal mines, glass factories, and petroleum producing territory, 
it would command attention as a producer of wheat, corn, 
oats, cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses. Its forests are wider in 
sxtent than some States, and its lumber business is vast. 
The value of stone quarried in Pennsylvania is the very first 
in the whole United States. The chief center of cement 
production in the nation is in Pennsylvania. 
The Keystone State is more than 158 miles from North 
to South, being larger than the distance between two parallels 
of latitude, 42 degrees marking its Northern boundary, while 
the parallel of 40 degrees lies to the North of a line running 
above Philadelphia, York, Uniontown, and Waynesburg. Its 
length from New Jersey to Ohio is 302 miles. The area of its 
land surface is 45,126 square miles and its population is 
greater than any other State in the Union except New York. 
By way of comparison with one item, it may be stated 
that in the year 1922, when the potato crop of the United 
States was the largest on record, Pennsylvania was the fifth