Religion, colonising & trade

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Identifikator:: 1834114039

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222204

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Author:: Lucas, Charles Prestwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/101180705

Title:: Religion, colonising & trade

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 84 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The seventeenth century down to 1660

Collection:: Economics Books

150 Modern Business Geography Fig. 131. Duluth, at the western end of Lake Superior, is a meeting point for the railroads ply to the industrial cities of Chicago. Detroit, hence, it pays to build railroads among the rough Adirondacks, or even expensive cog-wheeled roads up mountains like Washington in New Hampshire, Pikes Peak in Colorado, and the Rigi in the Alps. In plains quite as much as among mountains the presence of natural resources, especially the possibilities of agriculture, cause the build- ing of railroads. On the map of the railroads of North America (Fig. 128), notice all the little railroads branching from the main lines in the Dakotas, for example. Their chief purpose is to collect wheat from the fertile farms of the Red River valley. Other railroads have been built to collect milk in northern New York, beets in Colorado and central Germany, and sugar in Cuba. In fact, more railroads are built to collect the products of regions of gentle relief than for any other single purpose. Why railroads are expensive. People often wonder why it costs forty or fifty thousand dollars to build a mile of railroad even in a plain, and hundreds of thousands among the mountains. They also wonder why, when once a railroad is built, it constantly needs new capital. Let us consider some of the chief expenses. (1) Surveying. When a railroad is planned, the route must be surveyed most carefully. This is easy in a plain, but among moun- tains or even hills it is a long, expensive process, and mistakes are frequent. For example, the Union Pacific Railroad — or, as it is now called, the Southern Pacific — from Cheyenne to Sacramento, is only one of many roads that have spent millions of dollars in re- locating tracks because the first surveys were not sufficiently full and accurate.

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