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 two. The field of transportation

Collection:: Economics Books

Railroads 185 The special advantage of street railways is that they serve people al- most from their own doors, and thus help many who are not reached by steam railroads. In some districts, such as the rich central plain of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, they not only take the suburban people to their work, but help the farmer get his products to market and his children to school. Electric railways can there be built and operated so cheaply and the population is so numerous and prosperous that inter- urban, as well as suburban, lines are common. With only an occasional change of cars one may travel hundreds of miles. QUESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND PROBLEMS A. Railroad mileage of the world. 1. Let each pupil select one of the continents and explain why it has many or few railways (Fig. 133). Use the following outline : Size of the continent Number of people and their ability to pay for railborne goods Recency of occupation by civilized people Extent to which the resources have been developed Extent to which oceanic and inland waterways make railroads un- necessary Future prospects for railroad building Explain this saying: Railroad mileage is an index of civilization.” How far does your study of railroads confirm it? The growth of large cities has depended largely upon the inventions of such men as Watt, Stephenson, Bessemer, Pullman, and Westinghouse. Explain what this statement has to do with railways. Let members of the class report on what these men invented or discovered. Make a diagram to illustrate the statement of railroad mileage given on page 183. Draw a line for each country mentioned, letting a quarter of an inch stand for one per cent. 1 B. How relief and distribution of population have determined the location of the main railroads in the United States. Which do you consider more important in railroad building, the highest or lowest point in a mountain range? Why? Consider both business and pleasure. Point out places in New York, California. Colorado. and two foreign countries that prove your point. Compare the map of the railroads in the United States (Fig. 134) with the map showing density of population (Fig. 161). 3. Explain the great difference in the railroad net in the eastern and west- ern halves of the United States. Which quarter of the country contains the densest network? Why? 2.

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