The Land of the sky, and beyond . [Asheville is a eliainiiiig- little city, uestliug m the veiy bosom of the eveilasting hii: cult ami important task was accomplishel sippi River, with converging lines frcni Rith- with remarkable celerity and efficiency The steady development of this extensive and complicated scheme proceeded almost unchecked through the entire period of financial depression, and to-day the South possesses a great railway system of 4,791 miles of lines, nearly all of which is absolutely ownedbyone corporation, of which Mr. Samuel Spencer is President. No other railroad in the

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The Land of the sky, and beyond . [Asheville is a eliainiiiig- little city, uestliug m the veiy bosom of the eveilasting hii: cult ami important task was accomplishel sippi River, with converging lines frcni Rith- with remarkable celerity and efficiency The steady development of this extensive and complicated scheme proceeded almost unchecked through the entire period of financial depression, and to-day the South possesses a great railway system of 4,791 miles of lines, nearly all of which is absolutely ownedbyone corporation, of which Mr. Samuel Spencer is President. No other railroad in the country, operated under a single charter, has so great a mileage. About thirty dif-ferent roads have beenmerged intotheS;)Uth-ern Rail way Company,the prinopal ones be-ing the Richmond andDanville and the EastTennessee, Virginiaand Georgia systems. As a mapwill show, thj

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