Author: Thurman William Van MetrePublisher:
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An Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States, 1789-1900
Author: Thurman William Van MetrePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States
Author: Thurman William Van MetrePublisher: DigiCat
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Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States 1789-1900
Author: Van Metre Thurman WilliamPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318900275
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Pages : 46
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An Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States, 1789-1900
Author: W. Van T. MetrePublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781437856965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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An Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States
Author: T. W. van MetrePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781440092473
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Excerpt from An Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States: 1789-1900 Living close along the ocean where numerous excellent harbors and long stretches of sheltered water gave ample facilities for the little inter-colonial trade that existed, and where rivers afforded natural means of transportation from the interior to towns on the coast, the people of early colonial days had not found it necessary to give much time to the construction of roads. The gradual inland movement of the population had finally compelled them, however, to give some attention to the means of land transportation and many rude earth roads were built to replace the old Indian trails. These roads were unspeakably poor, sloughs of mire during the thaws of winter and spring and thick with dust in the summer, but bad as they were they carried considerable traffic and their use was constantly growing. Inland towns were beginning to grow up at the focusing points of the country roads, and the owners of general stores at such places derived large profits out of their position as middlemen between the farmers of the interior and the merchants at the nearest seaports. Three great roads had been built into the western country, one up the Mohawk Valley into western New York, and two across the Alleghany Mountains, the Pennsylvania Road from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and the Wilderness Road over which the early settlers of Kentucky had threaded their way up the Shenandoah Valley and through Cumberland Gap to the southern banks of the Ohio River. The transportation facilities of the times were, however, entirely inadequate to the needs of the country, and the lack of better means of getting products to market was a serious impediment to internal development. Tench Coxe wrote in 1792: "To a nation inhabiting a great continent not yet traversed by artificial roads and canals, the rivers of which above their natural navigation have hitherto been very little improved, many of whose people are at this moment closely settled upon lands, which actually sink from one-fifth to one-half of the value of their crops in the mere charges of transporting them to seaport towns, and others, of whose inhabitants cannot at present send their produce to a seaport for its whole value, a thorough sense of the truth of the position is a matter of unequalled magnitude and importance." Especially was communication between the Ohio Valley and the outside world difficult and expensive. The natural outlet for the surplus of this valley was the Mississippi River. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States 1789-1900
Author: T W Van MetrePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512079913
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Pages : 40
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Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States
Author: Thurman William Van MetrePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781505316605
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Pages : 36
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"[...]diversion of traffic from the Mississippi River to Lake Erie, and as early as 1838, the receipts of western wheat and flour at Buffalo were larger than the receipts at New Orleans. The repeal of the English Corn Laws in 1846 gave a great stimulus to cereal production in the United States. As the population of the Central States increased and as canals and railroads were built to connect all parts of the cereal belt with the lake cities, the lake grain trade constantly swelled in volume. In 1860 the receipts of grain by lake at Buffalo, Oswego, Dunkirk, Ogdensburg and Cape Vincent amounted to 62,000,000 bushels. The shipment from[...]".
History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States: pt. I. American commerce to 1789, by E.R. Johnson. pt. II. Internal commerce of the United States, by T.W. Van Metre. pt. III. The coastwise trade, by T.W. Van Metre
Author: Emory Richard JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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An Outline of the Development of the Internal Commerce of the United States, 1789-1900
Author: Thurman William Van MetrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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List of References on the History of the West
Author: Frederick Jackson TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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