Chapter 5

Chapter 5 in the textbook discusses the manufacturing core of North America. Crescent City, being located in Northern California is not part of this important aspect of our country. As talked about in the chapter some of the key location factors are location of raw materials, transportation, energy availably and the cost of energy all played a large role in the manufacturing core.  In Crescent City, there are no raw materials available, transportation was not easy and widely available and the energy needed would have cost more than some would have imagined to spend.

The Smith River. (Source: http://picsofyourlocation.tribe.net/photos/c2549367-c5e2-47ab-9ed8-23e07bef277a)

Crescent City is loacted on the sea coast, but also right near the mountains. Simply building roads in and out of the city have proven to be deadly with many men not only dying from building such roads, but also dying from traveling them. The rivers near by are not wide enough nor deep enough for large boats to travel. Near by there is an area that had ferries which allowed crossing of passages, but not many goods could pass on these ferries because they could not support such large weight. The port in the harbor is small and not near many other large ports. This port however was key to getting goods to Crescent City for many years because the first road was not built and finished until 1858. There are not many raw materials of value to the manufacturing industry. In fact, the only type a resource was copper which was found and mined to the north east of Crescent City, which peak for about a 5 year period then declined. Each of these things show why the this whole area is not an ideal industrial location and explains why Crescent City was not developed around such an industry. Crescent City relied on what was near and not what was around the world. It's "market" was in town, not anywhere in the world.

(Source: http://content.cdlib.org/data/13030/cg/kt667nb1cg/figures/caljsiol_sio1ca175_096_028.gif)