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Identifier: industriesofsain00morr (find matches)
Title: The industries of Saint Louis: her advantages, resources, facilities, and commercial relations as a center of trade and manufacture;
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: (Morrison, Andrew and Irwin, John H. C.) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: St. Loius, J. M. Elstner & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ACK. The P.vsr 711 Present and Future ....-..- 12-53 Trade and Commerce 16-22 Transportation; Exports and Imporis - - - - 23-29 The Grain Trade --------- 30 Cotton and Wool -------- 32 Live Stock . - . . 33 Hides and Lf.aihrr 34 Hardware ...-..-.-- 35 Grocery - - . . - 35-6 Dry Goods . . - . 36-7 Banking and Finance .-.---.- 38-39 Leading Manufactures - - - - 40-51 Iron - - - - 40-41 Flour 41-42 Brewing - - . - 43 Tobacco 43-47 Saddlery, Boors, Shoes, eic. 47-48 Furniture 48 Building 49 Wood 50 Native Wines; Drugs; Clothing . . . . . 51 The Municipality - - - 53 Exposition -- 55 The Metropolitan Press 5^-59 Representative Houses - 61-222 PROMINENT ILLUSTRATIONS. The Blair Monument 4 Crow Art Museum - 6 Chamber of Commerce - - - - 16 Illinois and St. Louis Bridge - - 24 New Grand Opera House .---.--. 52 Exposition Building - - - - - -- - - 55 National Stock Yards .-.--.-.. 96 The St. James Hotel 118 The Turner Building T46 The Southern Hotel .----... 170 The Laclede Hotel -.--..,.. 183
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THE PAST. ORIGIN, EARLY HISTORY, AND PROGRESS OFST. LOUIS. JUDGED by the steady increase of population that she has had, the com-mercial advancement of St. Louis has been continuous from the very foun-dation of the trading post by Pierre Laclede Ligueste in 1764. The statisticsof her growth compare faithfully with the development and expansion of thevast region for which she is now the metropolis. For the first forty years of herexistence, the industries of her inhabitants were the simple avocations of thepeople of a frontier town, and even for some years after the American occupa-tion the fur trade was her chief source of wealth; but as the Indians and gamegradually retired before the westward march of civilization, agricultural pursuitsbegan to contribute to the prosperity of the town, and, with their extension,manufactures slowly but surely followed, until now the city is everj^where recog-nized as one of the great American centers of mechanical and industrial enter-prise. The hist

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