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Manufacturing Regions of the United States 259
group of meat-packing cities, including Oklahoma City, Fort Worth,
San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston; but there the cotton-ginning and
cottonseed oil industries also become important.
In the mountain section. Farther west, the only large city in or
near the Rocky Mountains is Denver. It lies just east of a great
mining region and west of the country’s largest grazing region. Hence
its manufacturing takes the two-fold form of (1) animal industries,
including some dairying as well as slaughtering and meat packing,
and (2) mining industries in the form of great smelters, the sulphur
by-products of which are used for sulphuric acid.
The Pacific Manufacturing Centers
The type of industries. Although many signs point to the future
development of a Pacific manufacturing section resembling the in-
tensive eastern section, most of the Pacific industries are still of the
simple type. The splendid forests furnish lumber, which at places
like Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland is sawed and planed or made into
boxes for the vast amount of fruit raised in the Pacific lowlands.
Extensive grazing ranges produce not only meat but some milk for
butter and cheese. Flour mills are needed because of the great wheat
fields. In Washington the streams and bays support the important
salmon-canning industry : while in California the climate is so favor-
able for the growth of fruits in great variety that vast quantities of
canned peaches, dried prunes, and other preserved fruits are prepared
for sale in the eastern and foreign markets.
The possible use of water power. The industrial development of
the Pacific coast was at first hampered by the scarcity and costliness
of coal. At present the extensive use of water power, the production
of petroleum in southern California, and some coal mining in Washing-
ton much lessen this handicap. So great are the possibilities of de-
veloping water power in Oregon and Washington that many people
expect the Willamette Valley and Puget Sound region to become one
of the world’s greatest manufacturing districts, with Seattle as its
metropolis and Portland and Tacoma as two other great cities. The
anexcelled forests in the neighboring mountains, and the great wheat
Gelds farther east, with Spokane as their center, are important factors
in promoting such development. An added advantage is the pecu-
liarly healthful climate.
The two leading California cities. The industries of San Francisco
are chiefly those that satisfy the local needs of a large city, such as
printing and publishing, slauchtering. iron and steel works. and bak-
om.
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