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Show . jV.SJU" - - c i- fit I iliyallli SS i.liiii-lh.jid' 'jh.iittONilnW kit,? ' - - n -rl Buffalo, New York, In the heart of the world-famous Niagara Re- f ion, and the gateway to Canada, is the hub of great Industrial and commercial activity. The busy activity of a great harbor, railroad terminals, towering grain elevators, steel plants, automobile factories, fac-tories, food Industries and scores of other diversified Industrial and commercial activities provide a scene of American Industry and commerce at its best. More than two million visitors annually dis- cover Buffalo a friendly city the "City of Good Neighbors." Already one of the world's great inland ports, Buffalo be- . comes a world port with the opening open-ing of the St. Lawrence Seaway. "Spurred on by the coming of the Seaway and the building of a $200,000,000 Expressway System, the 1,567 square-mile Buffalo-Niagara Buffalo-Niagara area Is moving ahead with record-breaking construction construc-tion new housing, new and enlarged en-larged public improvements, new and expanded Industrial plants, research facilities and commercial establishments. Buffalo, is famous for its high , diversification of industry, both light and heavy. One can name any product, from, golf balls to neon gas and motor boats to au-tos au-tos and find that it is made in Buffalo. Buffalo is the first eity in the world In flour and feed milling. Approximately 60,000,000 bushels of wheat are milled annually; an-nually; 70 per cent becoming flour and the remainder dairy and poultry feeds. Buffalo is also the center of one of the largest electro-metallurgical production areas in the world. Estimated population of Buffalo, Buffa-lo, in April 1957 : 689,300. Population Popula-tion of Erie County: 1,072,092. Buffalo is the heart of an area which Includes the greatest concentration con-centration of population on the North American continent. Most . of the large cities In the United States and Canada are within a 500-mile radius of Buffalo. |