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:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

136 Modern Business Geography are oak, hickory, maple, chestnut, walnut, and tulip, the wood of which is hard in contrast to the soft wood of the pine, spruce, and hemlock. These hardwoods are used extensively for furniture, in- terior finishing, tools, farming implements, and wagons. The central forest still yields about one seventh of the total wood supply of the country. Grand Rapids, in Michigan, built up a great furniture business by using the local hardwood supply. Even now it remains our chief furniture center, although it must draw upon distant for- ests for much of its wood. (8) The southern forest, along the Atlantic coastal plains from the Carolinas to Texas, is the home of the yellow or long-leaf pine, the short-leaf pine, and the cypress. All these thrive in the mild climate of the southland. The southern pine seems to like best the sandy soil of the coastal plain, while the cypress prefers the swamps bor- dering the rivers. The wood of the yellow pine is often used in our houses for floors and inside finishings. It is used also for the frames of buildings and ships. This kind of pine supplies the country with nearly a third of its lumber. The short-leaf pine is rapidly coming into favor for a great variety of uses. Cypress is replacing the white pine as a cabinet wood and for many other purposes. Nearly every port from Galveston to Norfolk ships quantities of southern pine or of cypress. The southern pines contain a resinous sap which is collected in large amounts. The sap is obtained by tapping the trees near the base. It is heated, and the vapors are collected and condensed into turpentine. The process is called distillation. The solid which re- mains is resin. Pitch and tar are distilled from the roots, trunk, and limbs of the pine trees. All four of these materials are used on shipboard for such purposes as caulking seams to keep out the water and coating the fibers of ropes to prevent them from rotting. These supplies as well as some others used on ships are called naval stores. Savannah, Georgia, and Fernandina, Florida, because of the neighboring pine forests. are the world’s leading markets for naval stores. At the southern end of Florida and of Texas we find two compara- tively small regions of tropical forest. They are of slight commercial importance. (4) The Rocky Mountain forests grow only where the mountains rise high enough to make the winds give up much of their moisture. Hence the forests lie in scattered patches, usually difficult of access. Because of the low temperature of the high regions. the only trees

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