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runs from Georgetown, near Washington, to Cumberland, in western 

 Maryland. The latter, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, is an old and 

 important link in the State's waterways, for this idea, of connecting 

 the Potomac at tide-water with the nearest point attainable to the 

 headwaters of the Ohio, originated with George Washington before he 

 became President. It is 185 miles in length, and fed throughout by 

 the Potomac River. 



Railroads and Highways.— There are over 1,300 miles of railway in 

 Maryland, including the Annapolis Short Line; Baltimore, Chesa- 

 peake & Atlantic ; Baltimore & Ohio ; Chesapeake Beach ; Cumberland 

 VaUey; Cumberland & Pennsylvania; Emmitsburg; George's Creek & 

 Cumberland; Hagerstown & Frederick; Jennings Bros.; Maryland, 

 Delaware & Virginia ; Maryland & Pennsylvania ; New York, Philadel- 

 phia & Norfolk; Norfolk & Western; Northern Central; Pennsyl- 

 vania; Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington; Washington, Balti- 

 more & Annapolis ; Washington, Potomac & Chesapeake ; and Western 

 Maryland systems. 



lu addition, there are 1,500 miles of State roads improved with 

 shell, concrete, and macadam, forming main lines of traffic, and con- 

 necting all of the county seats. Facilities are ample in nearly every 

 district not accessible by the water route, and in many parts boat and 

 train service are combined to give adequate shipping advantages. 

 There should not be a section of Maryland, from the truck gardens of 

 the eastern shore to the mountain woodlands of western Maryland, 

 w^hieh is inaccessible to the great markets near at hand. 



Markets. — Maryland is a State possessing to a great degree the 

 undoubted advantage of markets which are numerous, well distribut- 

 ed, and profitable. Within a radius of 190 miles of Baltimore City are 

 New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond, and Wilmington, 

 cities which, taken with Baltimore, include more than 8 per cent of 

 the country's total population. 



It is also noteworthy that these great markets, without exception, 

 are available by water as well as by rail. Were these advantages and 

 the existing means of transportation not enough, the State itself has 

 within its borders several relatively important markets and centers of 

 distribution. Baltimore City and County, in central Maryland; 

 Salisbury, Pocomoke City, Cambridge, Easton and others on the east- 

 ern shore ; Cumberland, Hagerstown and Frederick, in western 

 Maryland, are all centers of wood-manufacturing plants which de- 

 pend, to some extent, upon local forest supplies. 



Certain products, particularly in an unmanufactured state, find 

 their way to these and other points for distribution, and lumber and 

 lath, with cordwood and charcoal, have their greatest demand in the 



