WORLDS INDUSTRIAL CENTRE

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 351, 8 April 1911, Page 7

WORLDS INDUSTRIAL CENTRE

About the busiest industrial region on earth is the lowland of England from Lancashire and the Mersey River on the west to Newcastle-on-Tyne in the north-east. Here are ; scores of cities and towns, the home I of the textile industries, the Pot- ! teries, the great shops busy with iron | and steel and other raw materials, manufacturing goods of high value : for a market as wide as the earth. j Over all the lowlands hangs a black j pall of soft coal smoke, the land- ; scape stU''Jed with the tall spout ■ ;nr chimneys. For all this endless activity in manufacture is wholly • lie to the location in these lowlands of fabulously rich deposits oJ ! co.il. Coal for a century and a half has : b"cn :t magical bank account in Great Britain, bringing into existi ence these great artisan populations making demands on every continent | for the metals and timber and textile fibres for the busy mills, and then calling on the farms and ranges of America, the Argentine, and other new lands, for the bread and meat to feed these industrial millions. Of all this textile territory Manchester is the central market and clearing-house. In the Manchester Exchange 177 towns are represented, ; eleven of them having each a popula- ! tion of 100,000 or over.--The "World ■ To-day."