. Railway age . modified to meet the competitionof coastwise steamers plying from New York to Galveston. ToColorado and Utah the routes through all these gateways are keptin constant adjustment, and the rates so arranged that Denver andPueblo are enabled to do a distributing business. What is true of westbound merchandise is equally true of the Louis, St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City owe their development astrade centers |)rimarily to strategic location at the head of naviga-tion, or at points where the transcontinental trails left the water-courses for the West, Northwest and Southwest. They c
. Railway age . modified to meet the competitionof coastwise steamers plying from New York to Galveston. ToColorado and Utah the routes through all these gateways are keptin constant adjustment, and the rates so arranged that Denver andPueblo are enabled to do a distributing business. What is true of westbound merchandise is equally true of the Louis, St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City owe their development astrade centers |)rimarily to strategic location at the head of naviga-tion, or at points where the transcontinental trails left the water-courses for the West, Northwest and Southwest. They commencedas outfitting points for prospectors and settlers; their business wasthat of distributing through the new western country the articles ofcommerce manufactured in or imported the East, and thatstill constitutes a large part of their trade. When railroads found their way to Chicago and St. Louis theirrates were fixed largely by the wafer competition which met them on St Ja«eptt K^Js^s Ci 5t Louis. their arrival. Gradually railroads were constructed westward fromthese points and, as they reached common territory, the force of com-petition began to be felt, intense rivalry developed between the dis-tributing houses of and SI. Louis, and jiressure w;is broughtto bear upon the railroads, both Kast and West, to keep the ratefabric so adjusted that goods, stored in and distributed from eithercity, might be laid down at any of the Missouri river points at sub-stantiiUly the same freight cost. The class rates from New York toChicago thus became the basis of measurement for all class St. Louis rate was a fixed per cent, higher, approximating thedifference ii\ llie cost of reaching that point by water. The rates
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