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

CHAPTER TWELVE PROBLEMS IN PRIMARY PRODUCTION In the preceding chapters the chief primary products of the United States have been studied. We have seen that in addition to fibers like cotton these fall into certain great classes which give rise to oc- cupations such as cereal farming, truck farming, sugar raising, fruit raising, animal raising, fishing, mining, and lumbering. In this chapter the principles which have been learned in connection with these occupations will be applied to the study of the primary produc- tion of other parts of the Western Hemisphere. (A) SoutH AMERICA Because of its scanty population, its newness, and the debilitat- ing climate in many portions, South America is prominent chiefly in the field of primary production. The continent has little manu- facturing, and except in some of the great cities in the southern part, the people buy relatively little from outside; consequently their trade is of minor importance in the field of consumption. In the field of transportation also South America is backward, for except in the south its railway and steamship lines are relatively few in num- ber and for the most part poorly equipped. Let us see how the primary products, together with the geograph- ical conditions, have influenced the growth of cities. Study of the maps of products and railways in this book, supplemented by refer- ence to a good elementary geography and to a relief map, will explain why some South American cities have grown great and others have remained small. (1) THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEAPORTS Where seaports have developed and why. In studying the coast of South America to find .out where the seaports have developed and what primary products have especially aided in their growth, we will start at Ecuador. From the southern point of the coast of Ecuador to the Isthmus of Panama, then from the isthmus around to central Brazil, the coast of South America is almost everywhere bordered by a low plain, narrow on the west and wide on the east. It is hot, marshy, forest-clad, and infested with malaria and yellow fever. 145

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