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This is a short treatise on the works of three authors, which deal with the theme of changes in the location of the iron and steel industry in America. Andreas Predohl, WaJter Isard, Fredrich Hertle, respectively, published their works in 1928, 1948-1953 (four essays) and 1959. In the three decade covered by A. Predohl and F. Hertle, there occurred great changes in the location of the American iron and steel industry. As these changes in the location during the period are reviewed, the observer is convinced of the fact that the location of the American iron and steel industry is a typical example of Alfred Weber's so-called Pure theory of location. Especially, after the latter part of the 19th century, when the indisputable superiority of such coal-producing localities as Pittsburg was established, the iron ore producing areas came to the fore to replace the former, with such traffic centers as Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland on the lake-side region becoming the hub and center of the new rising iron and steel industry. The trend was especially apparent as the new century set in, and it was this particular era that A. Predohl chose for his exclusive study. At the same time, iron ore, before it attained supremacy like coal,, came to be provided with great influences, from about the closing years of the 19th century, to allure a market as a scrap-producing area, as a result of the remarkable progress seen in the open hearth. In his Chicago experiment, A. Predohl sought the causes in both. While market power to attract iron and steel production increased more and more with the turn of the century, the expansion of the American economy during World War II and subsequent years, further stimulated and. expanded this tendency. W. Isard, on his part, put emphasis on the circumstances of the locatioix of iron and steel replacing the coal-producing locality already in the middle part of the 19th century, and, went on to prove the changes in the location, during the post-war years. F. Hertle's work, published last year, deals with the latest problems in this connection. A dearth of Lake Superior ore and importation of ore from foreign countries, development of the St. Lawrence Seaway, abolition of the Basing Point System and exploitation of the method of direct iron manufacture featured the market location in the 1950's. Thus, the classic location triangle (Standortdreiecke) disappeared, on one hand, while, on the other, the center of the iron and steel industry moved to the eastern coast region, including (New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland), the south (Alabama, Texas, Georgia) and the pacific area (California). Thus, it is seen that the law of location has now been to effected by a significant alteration. This short treatise is an attempt to explain, with reference to the works alluded to above, the causes and law of the historical trend in location changes. A. Predohl, "Die ortliche Verteiluug der Amerikanischen Eisen-und Stahlindustrie," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiev XXVII, Kiel, April 1928. W. Isard, "Some Locational Factors in the Iron and Steel Industry since the Early Nineteenth Century," Journal of Political Economy, June 1948. -"The Future Locational Pattern of Iron and Steel Production in the United States," Journal of Political Economy, April 1949. -"New England as a Possible Location for an Integrated Iron and Steel Works," Economic Geography, October 1950. -"The Impact of Steel upon the Greater Newyork-Philadelplia Industrial Region," The Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1953. F. Hertle, "StandortProbleme der Amerikanischen Eisen-und Stahlindustrie," Tubingen 1959.
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