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 (14759093472)

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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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the West. Theysaid, This will accommodate a district of country, which, from its prolific soiland rich cultivation, is considered the garden of our country. ... A wiseand equal policy will require its farther extension to the West, for the purposeof accommodating the populous and flourishing counties on the southernboundary, and connecting them with our own commercial metropolis. TheState built the railroad from Philadelphia to Columbia (eighty-two miles), andthe portage road from Hollidaysburgh to Johnstown, so that they were readyfor use in 1832. It also built a canal from Johnstown to Pittsburgh, the totalcost of all these works being twelve million dollars. This gave Philadelphia aroute through to the West, and enabled her to meet the competition of othercities. While these works were in progress, a number of small roads in the OF THE UNITED STATES. 627 Schuylkill mining-region were building through private enterprise, and onefrom Philadelphia to Germantown was chartered in 1831.
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ANOTHER VIEW OF JACKS NARROWS. Bostons first idea was to construct a canal through the State to the HudsonRiver to connect with the Erie Canal, and thus secure an uninterrupted water- 628 IND US TRIA L HIS TOR Y route to the most distant regions of the West. But in June, 1825, Gov. Lin-Massachu- coin, in speaking upon the matter to the legislature, said, Anothersetts. means of communication has been suggested by the construction of railways. In^June, 1826, a committee was appointed by the legislature toreport upon the question of a railway to the Hudson. Various routes weresurveyed. The legislature was slow, however, in acting, and the business-menof Boston became impatient. They visited New-York State to urge thepeople along the line of the Erie Canal to build railroads connecting Albanywith Lake Erie, and besieged their own legislature with statements in regardto the benefits to Massachusetts of a railway to connect with the New-Yorkroads and canal. In 1830 companies were chartered