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...have made a spe- cial effort to cluster at- tractive bits of scener}'. Wilkes-Barre. The south- western terminus of this division, is the commercial centre of the great anthracite coal region of the Wyoming Valley. This town bears the joint name of two dis- tinguished Englishmen, John Wilkes and William who prior to the war of the Revolution defended in Parliament the rights of the American colonists. Nearly a half hun- dred extensive coal-mines are located in the immediate neighborhood of Wilkes- Barre, and the amount of coal tonnage of the city runs into figures which are very impressive in mag- "] nitude. Upon this line of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad is also u ^ I located the cities of I'ittston and Scranton, I lie former being at the junction of the Susque- lianna and Lackawanna rivers, and, like Wilkes- r. Arre, devoted to coal interests. Scranton has enjoyed the distinc- tion of hav- i n g been called at va- rious peri- ods by more names than any other town in the United...

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