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 three. The field of manufacture

Collection:: Economics Books

256 Modern Business Geography complex in that it requires much skilled labor and complicated ma- chinery, and the raw materials are greatly changed before they be- come finished products. In the northeastern section outside of these three districts, on the other hand, although manufacturing is impor- tant it is generally exfensive. That is, the distances between manu- facturing cities are relatively great and the cities and plants are commonly small. In fact, much of the manufacturing is carried on in villages. The type of manufacturing in these outside regions is also likely to be simple. The raw materials are usually found close at hand; they pass through only a few processes, and complicated ma- chinery is rarely used. Logs, for example, are cut into lumber, turned into wooden ware, or ground into wood pulp for paper; milk is made into butter, cheese, and condensed milk; fruit and vegetables are canned ; and rocks like granite and marble are chiseled into blocks and slabs. Why parts of the northeastern section have only simple manufac- turing. In the northeastern section of the United States the indus- tries outside the three districts of intensive, complex manufacturing are relatively undeveloped for three reasons: (1) Some regions, such as the Appalachians, are too rugged for manufacturing, and trans- portation costs too much. (2) Other regions, such as the peninsulas of Maryland and Cape Cod, are located at a distance from important trade routes. (8) Some regions are still young, industrially. The iron region of Minnesota is a good example. Cities of the northeastern manufacturing section outside the most intensive areas. Important manufacturing cities may be located in regions which are not as a whole characterized by intensive manufac- turing. Such regions within or on the edges of the northeastern manu- facturing section contain the cities of St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Scranton, and Duluth. St. Louis resembles Chicago in its great meat-packing industries, but being off the routes on which iron ore is cheaply transported, and near places where hides and tobacco are produced, it specializes in shoemaking and tobacco products. When the nearness of St. Louis to a great supply of hides convinced eastern companies of the advantages of St. Louis for shoemaking, skilled labor and compli- cated machinery were moved bodily from the East to start the industry. Minneapolis and St. Paul, commonly called the Twin Cities, find unusually favorable conditions for milling wheat at the Falls of St. Anthony on the Mississippi River, where 50,000 horse power are

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