Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ED STATES. 599 averages eleven days nine hours. More favorable rates of insurance have been granted to these steamships than to any others in the Atlantic service, two Cunarders alone excepted. The vessels have been a success both financially and mechanically. While the American line was building, two iron steamships of large size were constructing at the yard of John Roach & Son, a short distance below the city, — the largest works of the kind in the country. These were The City of Peking and The City of Tokio, ordered by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for its trans-Pacific service to Japan and China. They were to be the largest iron merchant-steamers in the ocean carrying-trade of the world. The Great Eastern was the only iron vessel which excelled them in size : but that vessel was a commercial failure, and was not actively employed in trade. The build-ing of these two vessels excited that extraordinary interest in the United States Iron steam-ships for Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
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STEAMSHIP. — WHITE-STAR LINE. which daring enterprise, and any effort for the supremacy of the national flag at sea, have always aroused. The launching of The City of Peking in March,1874, was made the occasion of a great celebration, which was attended by a delegation from both houses of Congress, and by merchants from the leading cities of the country. The City of Tokio was launched soon afterwards. Both ships have since been employed with eminent success in the trade of the Pacific. They each carry over 5,000 tons of freight and 1,650 passengers, and are crack ships in every respect. They are 423 feet long. The City of Peking made the fastest trip ever made across the Pacific in 1875, burning forty-five tons of coal a day ; while the vessels of the Occidental and Orientall ine, which run in competition with her, owned and built in England, burn sixty tons a day, running on schedule time. These vessels have engines of5,000 horse power, and are driven ordinarily at a speed of fifteen knots a

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