GEOGRAPHICAL CONCENTRATION. 19 



people of Washington but a very short time to place their 

 state in the front rank of the hop-producing states of the 

 Union after it was discovered that the volcanic soil of the 

 western slopes of the Cascades was well adapted to the culti- 

 vation of that product. 



But just as the household manufacture of linen still lingers 

 in western Virginia, where, under the shadow of the Cum- 

 berland mountains, many families still weave their own bed 

 and table linen from the product of their own fields, so, in all 

 probability, will there continue to be certain localities given 

 up largely to the cultivation of particular products, not only 

 without the possession of any especial advantages for such 

 cultivation, but even to the positive disadvantage of those 

 engaged in the industry, and certainly altogether out of ac- 

 cord with the enlightenment and progress of the age. 



