Commercial Geography 



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Share of the United States in the World's Industries and Products. 



10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 



Area 



Population 



Cultivated land 



Wheat 



Corn 



Oats 



Potatoes 



Wine 



Beer 



Spirits 



Sugar 



Tobacco 



Cotton 



Wool 



Cattle 



Sheep 



Meat 



Fish 



Butter & Cheese 



Leather 



Paper 



Glass 



Cotton Cloth 

 Woolen Cloth 

 Gold 

 Silver 

 Coal 



Petroleum 



Iron Ore 



Pig Iron 



Steel 



Copper 



Lead 



Zinc 



Mercury 



Salt 



R.R. Mileage 

 Tonnage Ships 

 Imports 

 Exports 



Total Commerce 



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ago, has established many industrial and 

 commercial schools of great efficiency 

 and usefulness, and has emphasized the 

 study of commercial geography in all 

 her schools.* In the United States, on 



* See Nat. Geog. Mag. March, 1905, pp. 111 

 117. 



10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 

 From Gannett, Garrison, and Houston's "Commercial Geography" 



the other hand, we have not paid much 

 attention to the subject until recently. 

 Protected by a high tariff, and assisted 

 by a general inventive faculty greater 

 and more practical than any people 

 have ever shown, we have gone on de- 

 veloping our own resources until we are 



