internal improvement enterprises. Early attention was given to the manufacture of tobacco products in Lancaster County, and eight tobacconists had shops in Lancaster in 1773. 3 One of these crafts- men, Christopher Demuth, founded a business which is still perpetuated in the city under the Demuth name

, and the labor supply for Lancaster City industry is comprised largely of urbanized members of this group.6 The possession of the Pennsylvania limestone by the Germans is an inter- esting phenomenon. There developed early a tendency to explain the presence of these people upon the best farming lands by

Lancaster City. 17 A local editor wrote en- thusiastically: "Persons engaged in the lumber and coal trade, on the head waters of the Susquehanna would do well to try the Lancaster market, as a 1° G. D. Luetscher, "Industries of Pennsylvania after the Adoption of the Federal Constitution with Special

the scene was able to write: "This city, within the last few years, has undergone a great change. A new spirit is awakened; industry and enterprise are now observable in all parts of the city."24 One enterprise more than any other marks the transition in secondary iron manufactures in Lancaster City