INDEX
Weather Bureau, 247, 262, 263; use
of telegraph by, 247, 252
Weights and measures, 256, 257; In-
ternational Bureau of, 256
Welland Canal, 237, 238, 301
Wells, 183
Weser, the, 341 [169
Westerly, Rhode Island, granites of,
Western Union Telegraph Company,
252
West Indies, 433, 434; cotton, 27;
products, 436
West Riding coal field, 87
West Virginia, coal, 82, 83 ; iron, 61;
natural gas, 164; petroleum, 162,
163
* Whaleback ” steamers, 11, 12
Whaling, 159
Wheat, 1-21; Algiers, 5; Argentina,
19; Australia, 19; “bonanza”
farms, 7; breeding, 2; Canada,
293; China, 19; consumption, 21;
crop, United States, in 1866 and
1915, 6; distribution, 1, 2; domes-
tic trade in, 10; Dondlinger, quoted,
12; Egyptian, 3; elevators, 11,
12; Europe, 15-19; experiment
station, Sitka, 4; export crop, 13;
exports of United States, 19,
20; financial importance, 12, 13;
Fort Simpson, 4; France, 32z;
© (Genesee country,” 5; harvest, 5,
6; history, 1; Hungary, 17; India,
5, 19; Italy, 359; Latin countries,
17; latitude range, 4, 5; leading
states, § ©; manufacture, 20;
methods on farm, 6, 7; Mexico, 4;
milling centers, 9, 203; milling
processes, 8, 9; movement of cen-
ter, United States, 5; North Africa,
1g; North America, 5, 6; Norway,
5; Odessa, 18; price, 1870-1920,
13; production, 20 (world acre-
age, 16; United States, areas, 3, in
1870-1920, 13); Russia, 17, 379;
search for new kinds, 3; in the
shock, 7: Slav countries, 17; soil
for, 3; Spain, 364; temperature,
3, 4; Teutonic countries, 1§;
threshing, 8; transportation, 21;
United Kingdom, 16, 306; varie-
ties. 2: world market, 15; world
439
trade in, 18; yield of, per acre,
121
White, I. C., quoted, go
White Mountains, 114
White Star Line, 312
Wieliczka, salt beds of, 371
Wilderness Road, 230
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 8o
Willamette valley, 118
Wineindustry, Argentina, 428; France,
323; Italy, 359, 361; United States,
134
Winnipeg, 299, 300; manufactures,
2935; transportation, 301
Wireless telegraphy, 248, 253, 254
Wisconsin, cranberries in, 128
Wolverhampton, 305
Wood pulp, in United States, 140,
141; imports of, 144
Woodwork in Germany, 340
Wool, Australia, 407, 408, 410; indus-
try in England, 308, 309; United
States, 155; use of, compared with
cotton, 38; world trade in, 308
Worcester, England, 310
World’s commerce, 440-448; Atlan-
tic period, 444, 445; Mediterranean
period, 440-444; oriental period,
440; Pacific period, 445; social and
moral effects of commerce, 446~
448; types of commercial expan-
sion, 445, 446
Wyoming, petroleum, 162; phos-
phates, 167; sheep, 146
Vakima valley (irrigation) project, 198
Vangtze River, 395, 397, 440
Varkand, 397, 440
Yarmouth, 310
Yemen, 388
¥okohama, coaling station, 87
Yorkshire, 308
¥ oungstown, Ohio, iron, 206
Yukon region, gold in, 292
Yuma (irrigation) project, 107
Zambezi River, 418, 420; basin, 414
Zanzibar, 413, 421
Zinc, 177, 309
Zollverein, 345
Zurich, 355
