. 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 . tin both, and committees came to see t
. 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 . tin both, and committees came to see them from all parts of the country. No railroad had yet been built in the world for the general conveyance ofpassengers and goods, — not even in England. So far, all the railways had beenconstructed, for the transportation of the products of mines over Early linesextremely short routes. Their utility for the purposes of general were ailtraffic, however, was disclosed by these preliminary experiments, short>and America seized upon the new idea quite as quick as England. DanielWebster, Charles Carroll, Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Clay, and other public men, ex-pressed a belief in their practicability; and the new era was successfullyinitiated. Wings were now lent to enterprise by the rivalry of cities. NewYork had taken an astonishing start consequent upon the opening of the ErieCanal, and was diverting trade from Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore, whichcould only be regained, if at all, by the construction of great transportation- 624 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY. routes from those cities into the interior; and the business-men of those placesset about the undertaking at once. Long lines of railway were projected fromall the most enterprising seaboard cities into the more thickly-settled portionsof their own States, with the idea of ultimate extension toward the were all originally planned to be operated by horse-power, or by sta-tionary engines; though the possibility of em-ploying
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