464 Agricultural Manual 



Improved Highways 

 Niagara Falls can be reached by three improved highways — 

 one from Youngstown on the north ; a second from the east ; and 

 a third from North Tonawanda, another road to the latter place 

 extending to Buffalo. A highway from Olcott runs through Lock- 

 port, and south into Erie County. The ridge road from the east 

 side of the county due west to Lewiston is a state road, with the 

 exception of about three miles east of Dickersonville. Improved 

 roads have also been constructed in the towns of Somerset, New- 

 fane, Royalton, Lockport, Cambria, Lewiston, and Wheatfield, in 

 all a total of 149 miles of completed improved highways in the 

 county, with 19 miles in addition under construction. 



AVAILABLE MARKETS 



Lockport, Niagara Falls, and North Tonawanda have extensive 

 manufacturing interests, with more than 350 establishments em- 

 ploying 13,000 persons. These three cities have a total popula- 

 tion of over 74,000, and furnish excellent local markets. 



Buffalo, Rochester, and other important cities on the New York 

 Central Railway receive truck crops, small fruit, grain, and 

 animal products from Niagara County. The villages along the 

 railroads in the fruit-growing sections, the most active of which 

 are Gasport, Middleport, Barker, Burt, Wilson, Ransomville, and 

 Lewiston, ship many carloads of fruit and vegetables daily dur- 

 ing the harvesting season. 



There are several canning factories and fruit drying establish- 

 ments. One of the largest canning factories, which is located at 

 Middleport, handles quantities of all kinds of fruit, particularly 

 pears. 



With the present facilities for transportation, fruit may reach 

 the New York market within forty-eight hours, and the Chicago 

 market within about the same time. There are in the county 

 numerous cold storage plants, several of which have great 

 capacity, located at Lockport, Suspension Bridge, Gasport, 

 Middleport. Newfane, Burt, Barker, Olcott, Wilson, Ransom- 

 ville, and Youngstown. Nineteen cold storages are used entirely 

 for fruit. 



Practically all the milk is used as market milk and cream in 

 the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Niagara Falls, and Tonawanda. 



