. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . Island and Connecticut coasts, where i
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . Island and Connecticut coasts, where it fattens. Baltimore and New-YorkCity are the principal centres of the oyster-business. In both places millionsof dollarsworth of thebivalve are putup annually incans and kegs,and distribut-ed by railroadto all parts ofthe UnitedStates and Canada. Of late years, oysters have been sent to Europe from those cities ; andthe business is becoming considerable, now that the steamers have been pro-vided with the facilities for keeping the oysters cool en route across the annual product is valued at about $25,000,000. Among the other treasures of the sea which accrue to the profits of our fishermen and the luxury of our tables arethe halibut, the shad, salmon, blue-fish,herring, white-fish, weak-fish,bass, clams, lobsters, eels, and Shad> sal~ mon, ner- OYSTEKS ONE, TWO, AND THREE YEAR* ).. other varieties. about thirty-five kinds in all. £ There are ring, lobster, andfish. They are all taken in largequantities. Lobsters are canned for thegeneral market, and are now exported inconsiderable quantities, as well as branch of the business not yet men-tioned has now grown so large as to takeits place among the staple resources ofthe country, although the inhabitants ofthe regions where it is engaged in mostsincerely wish that it had never becomea staple resource, and that the fish wouldswim away to some hitherto unheard-ofquarter of the globe, and never, never co
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