LYCOMING, a co. in n. Pennsylvania, intersected centrally by Lycoming creek, ivatered also by Loyalsock creek in the s. and Pine creek vrith its branches in the w., all affluents of the w. branch of the Susquehanna river; 1250 sq.m.; pop. '80, 57,482-52, 1'25 of American birth, 970 colored. Its surface is mountainous, particularly in the s. and w. sections, where it rises into a range of the Alleghany mountains, presenting very attractive scenery. Its surface is largely covered with forests of hard wood, and timber is one of its chief commodities. Its soil in the valleys is fertile, and produces every variety of grain, tobacco, wool, dairy products, honey, and maple SUMO'. CeSil .of farms in '70, $11,212,366, numbering 2,640. Value of live stock in '70, $1,244.900. It had in '70, 608 manufacturing establishments, with a capital of $7,875,938, and an annual product of $9.081,406. Among its mineral products are black marble, limestone, iron,
and coal. It had in '70, one coal mine, employing 30 hands, with a capital of $185,000, and an annual product of $4,000. Its manufactures are represented by machine shops, lumber, flour, and paper mills, plow factoities, tanneries; also manufactories of puinps, wagons, chairs, sashes, doors, and blinds, clothing, rectified coal oil, dxtract of hemlock bark. Near its county seat, above a suspension bridge that spans the stream, is the' great Susquehanna boom, coasting $1,000,000, which will hold 300,000,000 ft. of lum ber. It is traversed by the Northern Central railway, the Malley Creek railroad, the Philadelphia and Erie, the Catawissa and Williamsport railroad, and the West Branch canal, the latter principally used in the transportation of coal. Seat of justice, Williams port.