h, however, plantation owners were either too engrossed in the production of their crops or too unschooled in business techiniques to handle its distribution. Some just did not want to be bothered. This opened thee door for agents representing New York shipping firms who were only too happy to help them out - for a fee. This scheme not only earned the New York merchants a handsome profit but also solved the problem that without cotton the ship owner would be hards preesed to find adequate cargoes for their return voyages. And so it came about that New York in the nineteeth century became the nation's foremost shipper of cotton(Allen, 108-109). The cotton shipments entering New York harbor were brought to textile mills for processing. A group of New york capitalist estashlished the Harmony Cotton Manufacturing Company in Cohoes. A heavy investment of capital caused the rapid growth of the factory system, which was mass production with integration of processes and produced a high quality cotton cloth as well as other textiles(Ellis, 266). This set the scene for an industrial society by widening the market, manufacturing increased rapidly throughout this period, although development varied enormously from industry to industry. Often developments were due to improvements in technical processes such as the adoption of steam power and the use of anthracite coal instead of charcoal by the iron industry. The metallurgical industries emplyed thousands for skillful workers who produced a variety of iron and steel products, such as farm machinery, pistols, sewing machines, clocks and stoves. These products were being produced using standard parts and multiple quantities(267). The iron industry made rapid progress as a result of this processas well as the expansion of the railroad industry which created increased demand for iron products. It can therefore be surmized that often growth in a one industry would cause increased demand for another indus...
