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

Means of Transportation 163 transportation, for in cities it costs about fifty cents to haul a ton a mile by horse power. ‘Horses or other beasts of burden are used some- what in all parts of the world, but chiefly in the temperate zone and especially in the United States and western Europe. The traveler in the mountain regions of Utah, for instance, some- times meets horse after horse winding up a narrow trail, each carrying on his back a load of provisions for a mine. In countries like Persia, Turkey, China, and Siberia, such pack trains or caravansare commor in both mountains and plains. Often they consist wholly of horses; but in Turkestan, Arabia, and North Africa, many are composed of camels tied together by ropes running from the pack saddle or tail of one animal to the nose of the next. In Mexico and many other tropi- cal countries, pack trains of mules are more numerous than those of horses; while in Greece, Spain, and other Mediterranean countries, trains of donkeys are common. In Siam and India the elephant is often used for such work ; in the Himalayas the grunting yak with his sharp horns, and grinding teeth, and slow, steady tread is the safest and surest animal ; in the Andes the llama, a little cousin of the camel, carries the commerce of the high, cold upland. Even in the countries where pack animals are the main means of transportation, there are usually some roads where wagons can be used. In our own desert regions great mule teams of ten or even twenty ani- mals haul supplies to mines and come back with a wagon and several trailers loaded with ore or borax. In Siberia each wagon usually has Ellsworth Hunlington Fra. 121. In Central Asia transportation is still entirely dependent on animal power. The traveler has his choice of the ox. the camel. or the horse.

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