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 (14756248661)

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Title: 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
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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044.7.88 Indiana ..... 4,003 708 lf\ C T /I T0/I /*r\A pit 194,49°, 511 T111 n t~\ 1 c J.IHIIUI0 ..... 7,285 41 1^841,1-0 41i,///,14u Kentucky .... 1,475 2QQ c mo 7fS ApC / 1 JJI ^ Tennessee .... 1,645 T fc\AC\ z9,535,°22 Arkansas..... 788 28 3°7 Missouri ..... 3^46 543 1 6,304 220,455,579 Iowa ..... 3,939 3>25r 100,352,954 Wisconsin .... 2,707 291 6,404 TTT TOX ^ A r\ 111,/ zoj^4y Michigan..... 3,395 491 12,569 139,866,082 Minnesota .... 2,020 IS3 4,o39 79,754,596 Kansas 2,238 9 T 7 4,080 9^,5^3,557 Nebraska .... 1,150 34 728 I9»578,755 Colorado ..... 957 30 574 30,694,150 .Dakota ..... 275 4 74 12,700,000 Utah 5i5 31 573 o,_ 1 / )Vmj Wyoming .... 459680 Nevada ..... 33 713 4,650,000 California .... 1,919 80 2.000 64,705,666 Oregon 251 14 231 7,361,664 Tnrll^in fAnnfrtr j.nu.idii v_^uuiiiry • ♦ . Washington .... 279no 9 171 6,000,000 Union-Pacific .... 1,038 168 3>227 115,214,588 Central-Pacific 1,212 228 4,401 142,630,283 Total .... 77,47o 15,618 399,924 $4,087,253,225
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OF THE UNITED STATES. 639 Thus, in the space of fifty years, there has been expended in this new andwild country the enormous sum of $4,087,253,225 in building railroads be-tween the different parts of our domain. That so young a country, without