Largest hardwood lumber market in the world. 



Woodworking industries employ three thousand men. 



Lower freight rates than any other Southern city. 



Factories employ over seventeen thousand people. 



One hundred and eighty-five miles of paved streets. 



Largest grinder of soft winter wheat in the world. 



The only watchcase manufactory in the South. 



Unequaled in the beauty and variety of its retail stores. 



The most important egg and poultry market in the South. 



Third largest city in the South, white population considered. 



Every street car in the city enters a central transfer station. 



Students from abroad spend $2,000,000 per annum in Nashville. 



Wholesale and retail trade at Nashville amounts to $140,- 

 000,000. 



Manufactures 5,000 barrels of flour and 1,500 barrels of meal 

 per day. 



The largest manufacturer of commercial fertilizers in the 

 United States. 



Second school city in the United States, and the educational 

 •center of the South. 



Nashville has a splendid park system. 



Nashville has the best paved streets in the South. 



More variety of manufacturing industries than any other 

 Southern city. 



The political and geographical center of the State, which is 

 bordered by eight other States. 



The Count} - in which it is located has 200 miles of free turn- 

 pikes and a complete rural free delivery system. 



Higher commercial rating than any other Southern city, in- 

 dicating prosperity and stability of its commerce. 



Workingmen live comfortably on less money than elsewhere 

 and work out doors ten months in the year. 



Eighty-one miles of electric street railway. 



The largest wholesale hat and millinery houses south of the 

 Ohio river. 



Nashville has the largest and best wholesale and retail hard- 

 ware stores in the world. 



Ranks second in the percentage of increase in new buildings 

 erected in the entire United States. 



Nashville manufactures a greater variety of articles than any 

 •other Southern city. 



Nashville is the largest jobbing market in the South and con- 

 ceded to be the cheapest. -* 



Taking a day's railroad ride as a radius and Nashville as a 

 center, there are 20,000,000 people living in a circle thus de- 

 scribed. 



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