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

220 Modern Business Geography Maumee River, which has been made into a good harbor. Here again, as in the case of almost every city, many factors besides transportation cooperate. Buffalo as a station on the route to Europe. The extraordinary importance of the ends of the Great Lakes is evident from the location not only of Chicago, Detroit, and Toledo, but of Duluth and Toronto. and especially Buffalo. Buffalo has the great advantages of (1) cheap iron ore from the Lake Superior region, (2) cheap grain from the same region, (3) cheap water power from Niagara, and (4) water transportation to New York through the Erie Barge Canal. In spite of the canal, however, the grain from the western lake ports is usually lifted out of the boats into elevators at Buffalo, and then transported to cars that carry it to the Jersey City water front of New York harbor (Fig. 145). There it is lightered to tramp steamers bound for Liverpool and Europe. Strange as it may seem, the cost of unloading a bushel of wheat at Buffalo, plus the cost of the railway haul to Jersey City, plus the cost of reloading on the ocean-going steamer, is fully half the entire cost of transportation from Duluth to Liverpool. In normal times, for every bushel of wheat bound for Liverpool from six to eight cents is spent on costly railroad transportation. Yet when the wheat reaches Jersey City, it is farther from Liverpool than when it was on the dock at Buffalo. If Buffalo were a station on the route of ocean steamers instead of a terminal for lake steamers, the journey from the Middle West to Europe would be shortened almost a thousand miles, and five cents or more would be saved on every bushel of wheat bound for Europe from Manitoba, the Dakotas, and the neighboring wheat regions. The waterways between the Great Lakes have been so much improved that all but the largest freight-carrying steamers could proceed from the Atlantic Ocean to Duluth or Chicago were it not for fifty miles of rapids in the upper St. Lawrence River above Montreal. It seems probable that if dams and large locks were built here, the cost of con- struction would be met by the water power that would be made avail- able. It would then be possible to lift ocean steamers the entire 600 feet to the level of Lake Superior. Thus Buffalo and the other lake ports would, to all intents and purposes, become seaports. The transportation conditions that favor Cleveland and Milwaukee. Cleveland and Milwaukee, unlike the other great cities on the lakes, are located at neither the head nor the foot of a body of water. Port Arthur, the wheat port of Manitoba, and Rochester, on a river a few miles from Lake Ontario, occupy similar positions. Cleveland

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