Pittsburg
a city of Kansas in Crawford co., about 130 miles S. of Kansas City. It is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Joplin and Pittsburg, and the Kansas City Southern railroads. The city is in an extensive coal mining region. Among its industries are foundry and machine shops, lumber mills, packing houses, etc.
PITTSBURGH house; the Carnegie Foundation, including the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art and Science, the Allegheny county court house, St. Paul's Cathedral, and many other churches; Masonic Tem Temple; Eighteenth Regiment Armory; and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. There also many fine business edifices, hotels and theaters; the United States Bureau of Mines. are Manufactures. - The two chief industries are the production of iron and steel; but there are many other flourishing manufactures. The city is well known as the Iron City, for there is nothing in the iron industry which is not here manufactured, including locomotives, bridges, shafting, brakes, all sizes of nails, and the most delicate watch springs. There are in Pittsburgh beside blast furnaces and iron and steel works over 2,500 manufacturing establishments, employing more than 75,000 persons.
The most important manufacture next to iron products is glass in many varieties.
There also large tanneries, and manufactories of steel cars, paper bags, carbon points, boots and shoes, white lead, etc. The lumber and pork-packing industries are very large. Banks.-On Sept. 1, 1919, there were 22 National banks in operation, as well many private banks and trust as companies.
There is a public library, a State normal schools. The institutions for higher edmanual training school. Pop. (1910) 14,755; (1920) 18,052.