The New International Encyclopædia/Pittsburg (Kansas)

PITTSBURG. A city in Crawford County, Kan., 130 miles south of Kansas City; on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, the Saint Louis and San Francisco, and the Kansas City Southern railroads (Map: Kansas, H 4). It has extensive coal-mining interests, being situated in the centre of productive coal fields and near the great mineral district of southwestern Missouri. There are also shops of the Kansas City Southern, a foundry and machine shops, brick and sewer pipe plants, lumber and flour mills, grain elevators, a packing house, etc. The city maintains a public library. Settled in 1870, Pittsburg was incorporated in 1880. It is governed by a mayor, elected biennially, and a unicameral council. Population, in 1890, 6697; in 1900, 10,112.