. 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 . classes, it is estimated that the coun
. 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 . classes, it is estimated that the country now requires 554 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY the growth of 500,000 acres of timber annually. These figures show betterthan any thing else can the enormous development reached by this specialindustry in the United States. The earliest efforts of the people of America at carriage-making were putforth in the direction of building rude carts and wagons without springs forFirst efforts llse in teaming goods to and from the mill, from the farms toin carriage- town, and vice versa, and from city to city. The wheels for thesevehicles were all, or nearly all, imported, until the Revolutionarywar; at which date the colonists, for the first time, fell to making them gener-ally for themselves. The few private carriages of that day, one of whichimportation was owned by Washington, were imported. They were heavy,of carriages, coach-like affairs, drawn by six horses, and adapted to travellingon the bad roads of that period. With the better times which came after the. WINDSOR WAGON. Revolution, and particularly after the war of 1812, the carpenters turned theirhands to something besides heavy wagons, and especially to a new style ofvehicles (namely, stage-coaches) for which there then grew up a great were unknown in the United States until after the were only 1,905 miles of best roads in the country in 1791, and themail was carried in heavy wagons. Lines of sta
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