LIME-SINK REGION. 



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TABLE 9. 

 Population statistics of lime-sink region, 1910. 



FIG. 18. White farmer's house and barn about three miles south 

 of Dothan, Houston County. July 27, 1919. 



The metropolis of the Alabama wire-grass is Dothan, 

 with 3,375 inhabitants in 1900, 7,016 in 1910, and prob- 

 ably nearly twice as many now. Next in order are Hart- 

 ford, with 1,159; Columbia, 1,122; Geneva, 969, and Slo- 

 comb, 896. Together these trebled in population between 

 1890 and 1900 and doubled between 1900 and 1910,. and 

 they have probably gained at least 50 per cent since then. 



The principal railroads are the Central of Georgia, At- 

 lantic Coast Line, Atlanta & St. Andrew's Bay, and Ala- 

 bama & Florida. 



The percentage of illiteracy in the aggregate population 

 in 1910 was a little lower than in the regions previously 

 described, probably mostfy because a large part of the popu- 



