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

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19¢ Modern Business Geography 1G. 140. Locks at Waterford, the eastern terminus of the Erie Barge Canal. The old locks of the Erie Canal are seen at the richt. Note the difference in size. nearly 2000 miles from the mouth. Nevertheless, in commercial im- portance among our inland waterways it is exceeded not only by the Great Lakes but by the Erie Barge Canal and the Hudson and Ohio rivers. One difficulty with the Mississippi River is that it flows in the wrong direction. If it flowed eastward from the heart of the United States to the Atlantic Ocean, it might be one of the busiest rivers in the world. As it is, it gives relatively little assistance to the interior states in marketing their products or in bringing manufactured goods from the northeastern United States and western Europe. The work of connecting the central plains with the eastern part of the United States is largely done by railroads which cross the Appala- chian Mountains. The railroads are assisted, however, by the Erie Barge Canal and the Hudson River, both of which run in the right di- rection for commerce. As far as Albany the Hudson River is an al- most ideal waterway even for large boats, while the Erie Barge Canal is deep enough so that with the Hudson River it stands second to the Great Lakes among our inland waterways. The Ohio River and its two tributaries, the Monongahela and the Allegheny, are also of some importance as waterways. Their impor- tance springs chiefly from the presence of enormous deposits of coal near their banks and the great demand for this mineral in such river cities as Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Why canals are numerous in Europe. The American traveler in Europe is surprised at the number of canals. As he rides in a swiftly moving train with its load of passengers. mail, and express. he not in-

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