Areas of Desolation in Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Areas of Desolation in Pennsylvania It is an astounding statement that I make, when I say, as I do now, that in my lifetime I have seen prao tically one-seventh of this Commonwealth cease to produce wealth, power, or food for the remainder of the State! In this estimate I have not included those portions of the coal fields on which neither farms nor forests are found, but which already present so desolate an appearance as to suggest the inquiry: What is to happen there when the mining ceases? My distinct recollection extends back at least Sixty years. The railroads were just opening the way to the markets and, as a consequence, lumbering began on a scale previously unknown. What the rafts had carried out of the woods was as a drop in the bucket in comparison with What the railroads were to take out to the centers of demand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.