Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

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Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part two. The field of transportation

Collection:: Economics Books

194 Modern Business Geography Fic. 138. The ore boats, like the grain boats, are built especially to carry one kind of cargo, and are loaded by means of special loading devices that take the place of hundreds of laborers. constructed. The engines are placed well aft and the pilot house and quarters for the crew well forward (Fig. 138). The chief expense in shipping by water is the cost of transshipping the cargo from cars to steamers, or back again. To reduce this expense at the ore ports of Duluth, Superior, Ashland, and elsewhere, the ore trains run out upon elevated docks where the ore is dumped from the cars directly into bins. From the bins it slides out through hatches into the hold of a steamer without any handling. A steamer can thus be loaded in less than an hour. At the end of the lake journey at such ports as Cleveland, Ashtabula, Erie, and Buffalo, huge self-filling grab-buckets, capable of lifting fifteen tons at a time, are let down into the hold, where they can scoop out an entire cargo of perhaps 14,000 tons in six hours. So important is the commerce of these inland waters that it influ- ences the cost of living not only among the millions of people who live near the lakes, but among those of the manufacturing regions of the North Atlantic states, England, and Germany. All these people con- sume goods carried on the lakes, and the goods are a trifle cheaper because of the low cost of transportation. Even the goods carried by the railroads are cheaper than they would be if there were not a cheap carrying service on the lakes, for the competition of the lake steamers keeps down the railway freight rates. BOATS ON RIVERS AND CANALS Rivers and canals afford a cheap means of transportation far into the interior of the land, but their use requires a special kind of boat. Since most rivers are shallow in places, flat-bottomed boats have to be

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