New geographies . to bring products toChicago by water even from Europe,for, as you know, Chicago is connectedwith New York City by lake, canal, andriver. There is also a canal in Canada,around Niagara Falls, connecting LakeErie and Lake Ontario. By this water THE CENTRAL STATES 139 route, goods may be shipped fromChicago to the ocean along the St. Law-rence River. The Mississippi Riverfurnishes another water highway to theocean. Lake Michigan extends so far souththat the railways running between theNorthwestern and the NortheasternStates swing around the lake at thispoint. This makes Chicago
New geographies . to bring products toChicago by water even from Europe,for, as you know, Chicago is connectedwith New York City by lake, canal, andriver. There is also a canal in Canada,around Niagara Falls, connecting LakeErie and Lake Ontario. By this water THE CENTRAL STATES 139 route, goods may be shipped fromChicago to the ocean along the St. Law-rence River. The Mississippi Riverfurnishes another water highway to theocean. Lake Michigan extends so far souththat the railways running between theNorthwestern and the NortheasternStates swing around the lake at thispoint. This makes Chicago one of theleading railway centers in the country. Chicago stock yards (Fig. 176). Thebusiness of packing, canning, and ship-ping meat employs thousands of work-men, and many others are employed intanning the hides to make of the tanning is done in Mil-waukee. Much of the wheat from the farmingcountry is sent to Chicago and Mil-waukee, either to be shipped farther byboat, or to be ground into flour for. Fig. 176. -A view of the stock yards at Chicago, in which vast quantities of meat and other animal products are prepared every day. Thus it is well provided with meansfor transportation both by rail and bywater. Not far north of Chicago, on thewestern shore of Lake Michigan, is Mil-waukee, which shares some of theadvantages of Chicago. It is muchsmaller, to be sure, but is as large asNew Orleans. Quantities of raw products from thesurrounding country are sent to thesetwo cities. For example, Chicago isthe leading meat market in the , sheep, and hogs from the west-em plains, as well as from the farms ofthe Central States, are shipped to the bread. The latter city has long beennoted for its great flour mills and brew-eries. Another important productshipped to these cities is corn, some tobe ground into corn meal or made intohominy, starch, cereals, and otherthings; some to be shipped East. Somuch corn and wheat are carried toChicago that it is a noted grain
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