Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Know Your State (Weekly Series Realease #500): Pennsylvania's Unequalled Mineral Production
Fer many years when the United States was struggling to main tain its position as a producing nation against the competition of all Europe, Pennsylvania's coal and wood were the chief fuel for the nation's railroads. The City of Williamsport was the timber capital of the world Oil City in Venango County was the world center for petroleum, and the town of Gap in Lancaster County was the chief known source of nickel.
The nickel mine at Gap, no longer in production, once exported its metal to all the industrial nations. In the 1870's, Penn sylvania's position as the world's greatest producer of nickel was resigned to Norway, then to New Caledonia and finally to the Sudbury district in the Province of Ontario which is now the chief source of that metal so important in the production of steel alloys, domestic utensils and German Silver.
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