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The Bulletin. 



Table No. 1 — Shoiving Population of North Carolina as Com- 

 pared xmth Other States — 1910. 



North Carolina 2,206,287 



Tennessee 2,184,789 



Alabama 2,138,093 



Minnesota 2,075,708 



Virginia 2,061,612 



Mississippi 1,797,114 



Kansas 1,690,949 



Oklahoma -. 1,657,155 



Louisiana 1,656,388 



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 



xMaine 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 



TRAXSPORTATIOX. 



Railroads. 



!N"o state in the South has hetter transportation facilities. Five great 

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

 the Atlantic coast, and there to connect with steamers for the Panama 

 Canal when completed. Besides these, there are over forty other short 

 lines and feeders that ramify the State like so many hlood vessels in 

 oiir great industrial system. Every farmer is thus put in easy reach 

 of a good home market and is but a few hours from Charleston, 

 Atlanta, Memphis, Chattanooga, St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburg, Kich- 

 mond, Washington, Baltimore, 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, 

 and navigable rivers on which there is at present 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. 



