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Arkansas 1,574,449 



South Carolina 1,515,400 



Maryland 1,295,346 



West Virginia 1,221,119 



Nebraska 1,192,214 



Washington 1,141,990 



Connecticut 1,114,756 



Colorado 799,024 



Florida -752,619 



Maine 742,371 



Oregon 672,765 



South Dakota 583,888 



North Dakota 577,056 



Rhode Island 542,610 



New Hampshire 411,588 



Montana 376,053 



Utah 373,351 



Vermont 355,956 



District Columbia 331,069 



New Mexico 327,301 



Idaho 325,594 



Arizona 204,354 



Delaware 202,322 



Wyoming 145,965 



TEAJfSPORTATIOX. 



Railroads. 



No state in the South has better transportation facilities. Five great 

 railroad systems are rushing through the State to reach deep water on 

 the Atlantic coast, there to connect with steamers for the Panama Canal. 

 Besides these, there are fifty-six other short lines and feeders that 

 ramify the State like so many blood vessels in our great industrial sys- 

 tem. Every farmer is thus put in easy reach of a good home market 

 and is but a few hours from Charleston, Atlanta, Memphis, Chatta- 

 nooga, St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburg, Richmond, Washington, Balti- 

 more Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. 



Not only have we an excellent and rapidly growing system of rail- 

 road transportation, covering the entire State like a network, but in 

 eastern North Carolina there is a veritable labyrinth of bays, sounds, 

 canals, and navigable rivers on which there are thousands of boats, 

 barges, and other vessels, handling farm produce between our own larger 

 eastern cities and placing much of it on the markets of the cities to the 

 north and south of us. 



Country Roads. 



In addition to our superb railroad and water transportation facilities 

 there was launched some years ago a general movement for better coun- 

 try roads in North Carolina. That movement is still going on with 

 daily increasing momentum. As a result there is hardly a county in the 

 State which has not built, or is not contemplating the building of, good 

 macadam or sand-clay roads leading from the county seat, or principal 

 town of the county, into its remotest agricultural districts. These main 

 lines of good roads have secondary or "belt" roads leading into them 

 which are also graded and made good. In a word, both the railroad and 

 dirt road facilities in North Carolina are, in many counties, simply un- 



