Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . next five years. Wo now have nine shippingdocks and coal pockets in the city, with a daily average shipping capacity of 27,500 tons. In addition to these,just over the city line in Cheektowaga is the stocking coal trestle of the Delaware Lackawana & Western Eail-road Company, with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons storage. Also at the same place the Lehigh Com-pany has built a stocking plank of 150,000 tons storage, with a daily shipping capacity of 2,000 tons. At theBame point the Eric railroad has a plant for storing 100,000 tons, and for
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Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . next five years. Wo now have nine shippingdocks and coal pockets in the city, with a daily average shipping capacity of 27, 500 tons. In addition to these, just over the city line in Cheektowaga is the stocking coal trestle of the Delaware Lackawana & Western Eail-road Company, with a capacity of more than 100, 000 tons storage. Also at the same place the Lehigh Com-pany has built a stocking plank of 150, 000 tons storage, with a daily shipping capacity of 2, 000 tons. At theBame point the Eric railroad has a plant for storing 100, 000 tons, and for delivering 1, 000 tons a day; andthe New York Central road is now building there a coal storage trestle to accommodate 250, 000 tons. TheBuffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Comj)any has also bought land for a big coal storage trestle. So we see that Buffalos grain feeds nations; that her lumber would make shelter for millions ; that heriron trade gives employment to hundreds of thousands; that her live-stock feeds millions of the race, and that. her coal keeps the wheels of all the factories in an inland empire in motion, and cheers, and brightens, and warmsa million homes. Now listen to Buffalos minor stories of progress, lior imports of lead were thirty-five times greater lastyear than ten years ago; her receipts of copper were proportionately great; of fresh fish, the imports were10, 260, 000 pounds, making her the largest fresh fish market in the world; of manufacturing there was an in-crease of 100 per cent, in the number of establishments and of the capital invested. In the past ten years, thebanking capital of Buffalo has doubled; the increase in real estate values, as shown by the Assessors books, has been 89^ per cent, or nearly 9 per cent, a year on every dollar invested in land in Buffalo. There hasbeen an increaseiu marriages of 78.6 per cent.; of births over deaths, a gain of 46 per cent, proving theclaim for healthfulness of the city; of post-office business there was