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Industries Lacking Geographic Reasons for 

 Location Here. 



A few examples of industries in which adjustment cannot 

 be made, may profitably be mentioned. In such a city and 

 community large quantities of cement are used and one might 

 think a cement plant would be built here, but the natural 

 resources limit the project. The limestone is n6t suitable for 

 cement, and no suitable clays exist wdthin man^^ miles. Hence 

 all cement must be shipped in, thus establishing geographic 

 connections with a broader environment. The iron industry is 

 rooted here in South Columbus (Fig. 9), but there is no element 

 to encourage it beyond the local market and good flux lime- 

 stone. Further, the plant sells but very little product in Colum- 

 bus. Coal and iron must both be hauled many miles. While 

 so much coal mining is financed from Columbus in the Hocking 

 Valley and other districts to the southwest, that coal mining 

 is considered the largest single business in Columbus, not a 

 particle of coal is actually mined anywhere within the 

 quadrangle. The iron ore for the iron and steel industry 

 comes by way of Toledo from Lake Superior iron mines. 



A glass factory is running in the eastern part of Columbus, 

 with quartz sand from Toledo and gas from 30 miles southeast. 

 Market, labor and transportation facilities are about the only 

 favorable conditions for this industry. No industry making 

 heavy demands on lumber has located here, because of the 

 natural scarcity of timber. Limitations of this sort are ])ut 

 upon many lines of manufacturing. 



The Growth of Columbus. 



Starting on the grounds formerly selected and used by the 

 Wyandotte Indians for a straggling town, the village of 

 Columbus began to take shape along the east bluff of the 

 Scioto River one half mile to one mile below the mouth of the 

 Olentangy. At this place the ground is high and gravelly, 

 affording good drainage and in general much better conditions 

 for building than most places near by. 



Nearly parallel with the general direction of the Scioto 

 and Olentangy, along the slight elevation at the crest of the 

 bluff, very appropriately came High Street (Fig. 10). And in 

 distinction from many shorter streets leading eastward, one 

 was called Long Street, Broad Street was laid out wider than 



