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Identifier: guidetobaltimore00kingj (find matches)
Title: Guide to Baltimore & Ohio railroad
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: King, John T. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio railroad. (from old catalog)
Publisher: (Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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g the Canton industries,in part, are the following : No Hands.12 Oyster and Fruit Packing Houses 2,500 1 Stone Cutting yard 60 2 Stove and Hollow Ware Foundries 200 1 Sugar Refinery 40 1 Fruit and Oyster Can Factory 60 1 Roiling Mill 1,000 1 Axe Handle Factory 60 1 Dredging Company 100 1 Transfer Company 2 Chemical Works 40 1 Car Wheel Company 250 1 Brickyards 2,000 2 Steam Saw Mills 40 1 Agricultural Work 30 1 Steam Elevator 1 Sash Factory and Planing Mill 25 1 White Lead Work, (just started) « 3 Iron Smelting Furnaces 150 1 Copper Smelting Furnace ^ 250 1 Bridge Builder and Machinist 160 3 Distilleries 8 Coal Oil Refineries, (with capacity for refining 5,000 bbls. per week 75 6 Lager Beer Breweries 60 1 Packing Box Factory 10 1 Shipyard 4 Fertilizing Manufactories , 45 3 Lime Burners 30 1 Cotton Batting Factory 20 1 Furniture and Wooden Ware Factory 300 Compared with Philadelphia—our railway rival—the results wehall state with entire fairness. In these statements of values we 2
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GERMAN CORRESPONDENT BUILDING.ESTABLISHED SINCE 1840-33 YEARS. DAILY AND WEEKLY GEEMAN COERESPONDENT,F. RAINE, Proprietor. give, as far as possible, round numbers, rejecting fractions of thou-sands. Ill 18V0 the import entries at Baltimore were $19,512,000 ;in 1873, $29,287,000, an increase of nearly $10,000,000. In 1870Baltimoresdome3ticexportswere$14,33),U00; iu 1873, $19,344,000—an increase of about $5,000,000. In comparison with Philadel-phia, it stands thus : The Baltimore imports in 1873 being $20,287-000, those of Philadelphia were $23,3i<3.000—a difference in favorof Baltimore of about $3,900,000. On the other hand, the domesticexports of Philadelphia are in excess nearly $5,000,00e, attributablewholly to the petroleum trade, of which it naturally has control.How large an item this is, will be seen in the fact that, of the totaldomestic exports from Philadelphia (120,600,000) three-fourths, or$15,000,OOOarepetroleum. BaltimoreleadsPhiladelphiainthearticlesof grain, cott

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