CHESTER, - Delaware County PA History
CHESTER, - Delaware County PA History
CHESTER, - Delaware County PA History
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<strong>CHESTER</strong>,<br />
PENNSYLVANIA.<br />
vast quantity of raw material consumcd by our mills and<br />
factories, and thc amount of thc finishcd product shippcd<br />
away. The prcpondcrancc of the former conclusively provcs<br />
that Chestcr is a manufacturing city. The rcport of the Philadelphia,<br />
\Vilmington & Baltimore road covers the year ending<br />
Octobcr 31, 1888; that of the Baltimore & Ohio thc year<br />
cnding June 30, 1888, and that of the Philadelphia & Reading<br />
the year cnding November 30, 1888. Thc total frcight tonnagc<br />
forwardcd by the thrce roads in one year amounts to 161,371,<br />
an avcrage of 538 tons to the working day; the total amount<br />
of freight received by these lines foots u» 433,955 tons, a daily<br />
avcrage of 1446 tons. The comparatively small showing of the<br />
Baltimore & Ohio is largely due to the fact that it is a ncw<br />
road. Its local freight business is said to havc doubled during<br />
thc lattcr six months of 1888.<br />
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ROAD<br />
Freight I Freight Freight Ip- t' e s Passenger<br />
forwarded I receivetl trains dailYl .~~sr:;~1 r_ trains daily<br />
TO:\S : TOSS N. S. N. S.<br />
,-------------1--------- I --,-<br />
I I I<br />
Phila., Wil. & Bait., i ·t5,9t3 lISt, 15 2 I 2 I 2 I 687.°78 33 34<br />
Baltimore & Ohio, 26,797 I 39.376 I 1 1 I 83,280 21 21<br />
Philadelphia & Reading. IlS,63 1 I 21O,·t2 7 I 2 ! ., I None<br />
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