INLAND CITIES. 108

138. Chicago.

We will now study the leading inland cities.

One of the chief routes of trade from the
prairies and western plains to the ports of
the Atlantic is by way of the Great Lakes.

The amount of shipping on these lakes is
very large, and the greater part of the trade
passes through Chicago. This city is the
greatest railroad center on earth. Lines of
steel rails meet here like spokes ina hub. A
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Michigan with a branch of the Mis- '¢
sissippi river. S

Chicago is the largest grain and
meat market in the world. It also
leads in making steel rails. The iron
ore used in this city is taken chiefly
from mines near Lake Superior, while coal is
found in large beds south of the city. .

New York is the only city in America
larger than Chicago. The latter place is
growing more rapidly, perhaps, than any
other city in the world. ae

Chicago is famous as the site of the great-
est fair ever held. What fair was it?

139. St. Louis.

St. Louis is the largest center of trade
west of the Mississippi river.

The states along this river below St. Louis
send cotton, tobacco and sugar to this great
market. The western plains and the prairies
supply cattle and grain. Cars and boats from
St. Louis reach nearly every part of the

 

 

prairies and plains, carrying flour, clothing,

tools, machines and many other articles.
Other large centers of trade? are: —
Brooklyn, forming with New York and

Jersey City a great triple port. Brooklyn is

the fourth city in size in the Union.

Baltimore, one of the leading seaports of
the United States. Its trade is about equal
in value to that of Philadelphia. Among the
chief exports of Baltimore are grain, flour,
tobacco, cattle and oysters.

Cincinnati, clothing, liquors and iron goods.
Cleveland, iron, copper, coal and petroleum.

 

Buffalo, grain, meat, iron and lumber.
Pittsburg, steel, iron, glass and coal.
Detroit, grain, lumber and iron goods.
Milwaukee, iron, liquors, meat and leather.
Newark, clothing, jewelry and leather goods.
Minneapolis, flour and lumber.

Louisville, tobacco; Omaha, railroad center ;
Rochester, flour; St. Paul, railroad center and river
port; Kansas City (Mo.), railroad center, meat;
Providence, cloth, jewelry, engines and tools ; Den-
ver, silver, lead, lumber and flour; Indianapolis,
grain, meat and flour; Allegheny, steel, iron and
leather; Richmond, tobacco, flour and iron goods ;
Memphis, cotton; Wilmington (Del.), steamships
and iron goods; Grand Rapids, furniture; Charles-
ton and Savannah, cotton and turpentine; Duluth,
wheat; Galveston, cotton.

' Most teachers will doubtless omit from the primary
course the study of this list. It is placed here for reference.