Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

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

Document type:: Monograph

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:: Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

Cotton United States Bureau of Public Roads Fic. 8. Cotton bales on the way to the railroad for shipment. Motor transport and good roads have been a great help to cotton growers. When the old-time grower moved his crop, three bales were a fair load for a pair of horses to draw over the country roads. In 1927 North Carolina growers had 857,000 bales of cotton to deliver to railroads or mills. Without motor trucks and hard-surfaced roads, this enormous crop could not well have been moved. Some of the cotton of the South is used by the mills of North and South Carolina and Georgia, but the greater part goes to the mills of the northeastern states of the United States, western Europe (espe- cially England), and even Japan. Transportation to the shipping point. The transportation of the fiber from the fields to the factories begins at the ginnery. There the five-hundred-pound bales of ginned fiber are loaded on mule wagons by burly negroes, to be delivered at the nearest railway station or a river port a few miles away. This part of the journey, although short, is expensive, —it averages about eighty cents a bale, — be- cause of the generally poor roads of the South. A pair of mules has difficulty in pulling even a few bales over a poor road. From seaport to mill town. From the local shipping point the bales go direct to their destination. If they are to be used in South- ern mills, they go all the way by railroad. If they are to be used in New England, the bales are usually carried to the nearest seaport by railroad or by the picturesque flat-bottomed river steamboats. The cotton of Texas goes to Galveston. The cotton of the region drained by the Mississippi and its navigable tributaries goes to New Orleans. That of the Atlantic states goes to such ports as Savannah and Charleston. For this part of the journey the average cost for each bale is one twentieth to one tenth of a cent a mile by water, and a quarter to a half cent a mile by railroad, not including the cost of loading and unloading. This shows how much cheaper it is, in gen-

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