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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TR » 4) (5) Modern Business Geography more, mud or sand must often be dredged from the harbor floor. Dredgers are at work all the time at Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and many other ports. There must also be ample room; for vessels to turn about and to swing at anchor. For this reason ledges in the midst of harbors are often blasted away, as at New York. Too deep a harbor, however, is bad, because it does not afford anchorage. Convenient space for docks, warehouses, and other buildings is likewise necessary. On the edge of the water there must be level land on which warehouses and other buildings can be erected. The harbor of Baltimore is fortunate in this respect. [n such places as Boston, Buenos Aires, and Manila, where dredging has been carried on to make places for docks, the mud and sand dredged from the bottom have been used to fill up the shallow parts of the bay close to the land. A good harbor is free from ice. Since ships cannot move freely in the ice, harbors like those of Montreal and Riga must often be kept open by ice-breakers. No ports in the United States suffer much in this respect. How a prosperous hinterland helps a seaport to grow. Even though a harbor is excellent and is the meeting place of many inland routes, a great city will grow up only if these routes penetrate a region which is prosperous. In that case the city collects abundant products of the fields, forests, mines, or factories of the interior and exchanges them for the goods of other regions. The region from which a city receives goods for exchange with other parts of the world is called its hinterland; Baltimore, for example, owes much of its growth and wealth to the fact that the land that lies behind (hinfer) it is extensive and productive. THE SEAPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES Transportation by water is so important that the majority of the world’s great cities are located on waterways. In the United States more than one person out of every five lives in a port of some sort, either on the ocean, or on a lake or river. Of the people that live in cities with a population of more than 200,000, more than 12,000,000 live in the thirteen largest seaports, nearly 6,000,000 in seven lake ports, and about 3,400,000 in eight river ports. On the other hand, only 1,200,000 lived in the five cities of more than 200.000 population which are not on waterways (page 330). The ocean ports of the United States are all located where harbors make it possible for ships to come close to the land in safety, and where valleys or plains permit easy access to the interior. In prac- tically all the ports, the harbors are bays or river mouths where

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