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Memorandum respecting increased mail service to China / [Richard B. Irwin].

Author/creator Irwin, Richard B.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info[San Francisco, Calif.?] : [publisher not identified], [1871]
Description11 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
General noteTitle from caption.
General noteColophon dated "San Francisco, January, 1871."
With noteBound with: American shipping and ship-building / Alexander Mitchell -- American commerce : speech of Hon. Zachariah Chandler -- Maritime interests of the United States : remarks of Secretary Boutwell -- Building-yards and transatlantic steamers : memorial of the International Steamship Company -- Iron vs. wood for great ships / by Norman Wiard -- Ship-building and ship-owning by Americans, in connection with the foreign trade -- American ships : their past and future, and the question of wood or iron for their construction / William W. Bates -- American commerce : what can be done to revive and rehabilitate this dying interest? -- Letter to the Hon. Samuel Shellabarger : iron steamships : shall we build them of our own material ... / [by John Roach] -- Government subsidies to ocean mail-steamship lines -- Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco to the U. S. Congress, on the subject of subsidizing an Australian steamship line -- Home consumption and imposts statements ... for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1871.

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American shipping and ship-building : speech of Hon. Alexander Mitchell, of Wisconsin, delivered in the House of Representatives, April 6, 1872
Maritime interests of the United States : remarks of Secretary Boutwell before the Committee on Commerce of the House of Representatives, on Thursday, February 8, 1872
Building-yards and transatlantic steamers : memorial of the International Steamship Company : synopsis of proposals to create building-yards and establish transatlantic steamers without other subsidy than postages as now established by law
Iron vs. wood for great ships : a fearful and heretofore unapprehended peril attending iron ships at sea : a lecture before the Polytechnic Club of the American Institute, New York
Ship-building and ship-owning by Americans, in connection with the foreign trade
American ships : their past and future, and the question of wood or iron for their construction : in two parts. Part I
American commerce : what can be done to revive and rehabilitate this dying interest
Letter to the Hon. Samuel Shellabarger : iron steamships: shall we build them of our own material, or buy them, or the material to build them, abroad? A practical answer to the above important national question
Government subsidies to ocean mail-steamship lines : policy pursued by the United States and by European Nations contrasted
Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco to the U. S. Congress, on the subject of subsidizing an Australian steamship line
Home consumption and imposts statements : being numbers 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on commerce and navigation, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1871
American commerce : speech of Hon. Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan, delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 28, 1870