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restored to its former significance as the desire in the city for 

 more permanent buildings increases. 



Manufacturing, along many lines, especially those catering 

 to the local markets, will increase. New plants will arise at 

 various points along the railroads and may form the nuclei for 

 some of the new towns predicted above, but most of the factories 

 will cling to the borders of the city. 



The City. — Columbus may be expected to expand industri- 

 ally, commercially and artistically for many years to come. 

 Industrially, many building sites along river and railroad will be 

 occupied; and commercially, as the population and manufactur- 

 ing increase, the facilities for communication and transportation 

 must needs be augmented. No doubt new electric lines will yet 

 be built, and certainly several steam lines will doubletrack to 

 increase the external relations and connections of the city. 

 Possibly a new railroad or two may yet be demanded to care 

 for the products coming into and going out from this city. 



While the industrial development of Columbus may be 

 expected to be concentrated along the railroads, and to run in 

 some places, miles into the country, the residence districts will 

 as certainly be built up between railroads. This points def- 

 initely to three districts beside the tract north of town and east 

 of the Olentangy, already discussed, which may look for great 

 improvement and a rapidly growing population. One of these, 

 and if geographic conditions are to count for much, the first to 

 receive attention, is the beautiful well drained, easily reached, 

 upland between the two large rivers. Already much progress has 

 been made in the southern part of this tract but the farms north 

 of Fifth Avenue in both Clinton and Perry Townships must pass 

 from farming lands to town lots, streets, drives and school yards, 

 and city car lines must reach out along the present roads. 



The next most desirable district is' between the Big Four 

 tracks north from Columbus and the Pennsylvania track north- 

 east, in the vicinity of Linden. One electric line connecting with 

 Westervihe already runs close to this tract; others will come. 

 The farms in this section are now so valuable for residences that 

 they are not profitable for farming and the response must 

 soon come. 



The third district lies south-west from the city beyond the 

 cemeteries and between the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and 



