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- Title
THE LOCATION OF INDUSTRIES.
- Authors
Ross, Edward A.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the factors that determine location of industries. The enterprise is started in order to boom the town, to give work to the unemployed, to utilize some plot or site otherwise unusable, to confer value on adjoining real estate or to give safe employment to capital under the watchful eye of the owner. The remaining causes are rational and economic; that is, the selected locality is deemed to offer certain advantages in production or marketing over any other equally available point. To review the economic forces that determines the location of migration of industries, and to describe their mode of operating. First in importance in fixing the home of certain industries is the presence of natural deposits or supplies. This determines imperiously the location of mines, quarries, oil or gas wells, fisheries, lumber and fur industries, and the collecting of nitrates, borax, sponges, pearls, buffalo horns. Climate is not only decisive for vegetal products, but appears to play no small role in locating manufactures.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL location; FACILITY management; REGIONAL planning; PRODUCTION scheduling; INDUSTRIAL engineering; RESOURCE allocation
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1896, Vol 10, Issue 3, p247
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1882585