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

Transportation and the Location of Cities 21% C — ——SHIP CANAL . ga lr 3UILT UP AREA OF LHICAGO 3 OTHER MUNICIPALITIES £16. 150. Since practically the whole southern coast of Lake Michigan is without deep indenta- sions, Chicago has had to make its own harbor by means of jetties. Note the number of railroad ines that run into the citv. the ends more frequently than any other point. Hence most of the important lake ports are near the ends of the various lakes. How lakes and railroads have helped Chicago. The largest of the lake ports is Chicago, the world’s most important railway center. The city owes much of this distinction to Lake Michigan, the south- ward extension of which obliges the railroads that connect the eastern states with much of the West and Northwest to swing around its end. Lake Michigan also causes railroads from the Southwest and South to converge near its southern end because it offers such an excellent and cheap water route to eastern markets, particularly New York. Although not quite at the southern end of the lake, Chicago lies at the nearest point where there is even a hint of a natural harbor, and has therefore become a great transportation center. The routes centering at Chicago vibrate with activity. As you read these lines, freight and passenger trains are hurrying to Chicago

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