The following sketch of manufactures in Pittsburg and vicinity, is copied from Tanner's Guide, published in 1832:
Steam engines 37, which employed 123 hands. Value, $180,400.
Cotton factories 8, with 369 power-looms, 598 hands; value, $300,134. In the counties of Westmoreland and Alleghany, there are 5 cotton factories.
In Pittsburg and the two counties just named, are 8 paper mills, valued at $165,000.
In Pittsburg and vicinity are 5 steam mills, which employ 50 hands. Value of their products annually, $80,000.
There are 5 brass foundries and 8 coppersmiths' shops. Value of the manufactures, $25,000.
Within the limits of the city, there are 30 blacksmiths' shops, which employ 136 hands. There are also 4 gunsmiths, and 9 silversmiths and watch repairers.
In Pittsburg and the counties of Westmoreland and Alleghany, there are 26 saddleries; and 41 tanneries, 64 brick yards, and 11 potteries. There are in the city 4 breweries, and 4 white lead manufactories, at which 7,400 kegs are made annually; value, $27,900.
There are 6 printing-offices in Pittsburg, and 6 more in the two counties.
The estimated value of the manufactures of every kind in Pittsburg, and the counties of Alleghany and Westmoreland, in 1831, was $3,978,469.