Book/Printed Material The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and outlets, as the manufacturing center of the United States.
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- Date: 1873
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Image 6 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and …- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
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Image 7 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and …- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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- Date: 1873
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Image 9 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … Aid ss Be 2a GREAT FALLS OF THE POTOMAC RIVER OF VIRGINIA WITH ITS RESOURCES AND OUTLETS MANUPACTURING CEVTER AVP THE UNITED STATRS So meee LID RH W Jo R0OG ERs WASHINGTON…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 10 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and …- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 11 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … a Eee GREAT ALLS OF THE POTOMAC RIVER AS A MANUFACTURING CENTER It is generally conceded that the Great Falls of the Potomac river is the greatest available water power in the…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 12 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 4 which uninterrupted is equal to 13000 horse power and sufficient to run 20000 looms aggregating 900000 spin dles together with the necessary machinery for divers other branches of manufactures which can…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 13 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 5 thereby perpetuating all necessary power the year round for all time As we improve this water power and begin concentrat ing manufactories thereat steam power will of course be brought to…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 14 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 6 With regard to wool it may be correctly stated that both the Virginias are most admirably naturally adopted to the growing of this very indispensible article In fact it is conceded…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 15 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … fi ment of this great and advantageouslylocated water power In fact it has been laid down as a safe propo sition that a population of 1000will accrue to every 166 horsepower actually…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 16 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 8 acres of land adjoining thereto on the Virginia side together with the islands between the channels and the land privileges along the waters edge on the Maryland side of the river…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 17 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 9 reserving fifteen feet for alleys through the centre of each square from east towest and north to south The lots fronting on the east and west streets to be 25 by…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 18 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 10 from New England or Great Britain from whom our people can soon acquire the requisite skill And it is certain that when the present or anyother company composed of people capacitated…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 19 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 11 In regard to EMIGRATION this vicinity and in fact more or less of the entire States of the Virginias and Maryland are open to and anxious for industrial eniigrants from any…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 20 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 12 year through which ships of at least nineteen feet draught of water can come to the wharves at Washington and those of the largest tonnage to the wharves at Alexandria only…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 21 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 15 such as canals and railroads for commerce and manufac turing industry Among the first is the CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL which runs wa the Great Falls Beyond all advantage there is…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 22 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 14 cheapest whether on rivers as the Mississippi or the Ohio or on canals as the Erie in New York As now built and used the Chesapeake and Ohio canal from Georgetown…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 23 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 15 Though we have not the exact figures for 1872 before us we are enabled to state that the net revenue shows a prosperous increase with a cerresponding decrease of the expenses…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 24 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 16 stated that the lumber traffic is by no means inconsiderable During the years 1871 and 1872 over 25620000 feet were brought hither in schooners The value of this trade for those…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 25 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 17 secures a direct railroad connection for railway carriages through the Northern Central railway with the vast system of roads west northwest and to the Pacific con trolled by the Pennsylvania Railroad…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 26 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 18 large and growing trade owing to the perfect connections it secures with the great Pennsylvania trunk lines of rail ways to all western points by the Northern Central and Philadelphia and…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 27 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 19 miles above Cincinnati and 350 miles below Pittsburg on the Ohio river is an additional and highly important link in the chain of communication with the far West At present we…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 28 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 20 from Cincinnati and St Louis to the North will iead to a large increase of population and wealth at both of these points which has hitherto avoided us because of the…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 29 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 21 road Company are proceeding to build a railway from Laurel on the Washington branch of their road via Rockville and thence across the Potomac and probably at the Great Falls through…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 30 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 22 canal or to Baltimore by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad The following is the table referred to ais Tonnage by Tonnage by or ae railroad canal LORE RSA tas tosados shucks…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 31 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 23 to the headwaters of the Hockhocking river near Co lumbus Ohio southeast to the Peak of Otter in Vir ginia northeast to the middle of western Pennsy rama and southwest to…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 32 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 24 manufacturing gas driving machinery and for fuel need no illustration Cannel coal besides its other uses is likely to supplant wells as a source of petroleum The Kanawha yields sixtyfour gallons…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 33 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 25 This would exhaust one square mile or in other words oneeighteenthousandth of the Virginia coal beds per annum This much for quantity IRON This indispensible article les in considerable quantities at…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 34 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 26 ginia and West Virginia are considered among the best in the world and are found in unlimited quantities upon the immediate line of railroad communication with most unusual facilities for their…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 35 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 27 alent and at the Great Falls almost and will entirely disappear with the vigorous growth of a welldrained ventilated city What we quote in this connection from the report pre viously…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 36 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 28 most serious consideration Scientific investigation has shown that the health of communities cannot possibly be assured where the water supplied for drinking purposes is impure So true is this that carefully…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 37 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … iw me Organic City souree and volatile matter oe we ai i esa a Washington Wiashine ton sup pllive ttc escsreeteeeeniti O04 INES IN 0 8 hoe ee Croton average for thirteen…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 38 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 50 This gives us a mean temperature of 5415 which varies from Blodgetts isothermal charts by only 085 Now with reference to extremes of temperature of which much has been ignorantly said…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 39 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 31 careful scientific observation ought to be enough to satisfy the most skeptical mind A glance at the figures will show that the temperature of Washington and Philadelphia are almost identical while…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
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Image 40 of The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and … 32 in the sun But the point is That taking the year as a whole there are more available days here for comfortable labor than can be found in any portion of…- Contributor: Rogers, Andrew J.
- Date: 1873
About this Item
Title
- The Great falls of the Potomac river of Virginia, with its resources and outlets, as the manufacturing center of the United States.
Names
- Rogers, Andrew J., of Washington, D.C. [from old catalog]
Created / Published
- Washington, Chronicle publishing company, 1873.
Headings
- - Great Falls of the Potomac (Md. and Va.)
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 36 p. 21 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F187.M7 R7
Library of Congress Control Number
- 03018917
Online Format
- online text
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