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

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258 Modern Business Geography belt in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. This industry requires more skilled labor than the other simple industries mentioned in this section, but much less than the cotton manufactur- ing of the New England states, where finer thread is spun and finer cloth is woven. The chief reasons for its interesting growth are: (1) the local supply of raw cotton; (2) the falls and rapids where the rivers flow from the hard rocks of the old land to the loose soil of the coastal plain; (3) a'labor supply cheaper than that of the north- sastern section, and (4) a local southern market for cotton goods. No large city has yet developed as a result of the southern cotton industry. The two chief cities in this region are not devoted chiefly to cotton. Birmingham, because of its proximity to mines of both coal and iron, is a center for crude iron and steel. In Atlanta printing and publishing rank first, since the city is a state capital and the seat of many educational institutions. The industrial center of the far South. Farther to the southwest, New Orleans is by far the greatest of the southern industrial centers. [ts industries depend largely on local raw materials furnished by for- ests, rice fields, and sugar and cotton plantations. Hence wooden goods, especially shingles, and tanks for sugar, are important products. Sugar refining and the making of confectionery hold a high place. Each year the city makes many million dollars’ worth of burlap bags for use in handling cotton seed, cottonseed meal, rice, and fertilizer. Naturally much cottonseed oil is prepared; and New Orleans is the chief center for the cleaning and polishing of rice. Because of the warm climate, the city likewise makes an unusually large amount of ice. The difference between the industries of a southern city like New Orleans, which depends largely on plantation products, and a north- ern city like Cleveland, which depends largely on the products of mines. 1s most interesting. Cities of the Western Plains The meat-packing cities. Westward from the main manufacturing section of the United States the work of St. Louis is continued in a group of meat-packing cities. Kansas City, St. Joseph, Des Moines, and Omaha are in part a response to the refrigerator car and the other methods that have made it possible to preserve meat a long time and transport it long distances. They have the advantages of being lo- cated (1) in the corn belt, (2) near the edge of the grazing lands, and (8) on main routes from the grazing lands to the great markets. Some of these advantages are shared in a less degree by a more southerly

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