. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . I So FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY The mills not only spin the cotton of the gulf plains butalso turn out fertilizers, work up the timber of the region,and make a multitude of other things to swell the citystrade with her neighbors. Appropriate to her needs, Atlanta has had since 1887a school of technology, in which she teaches her sons. Fig. 74. Iron Furnace, Birmingham how to develop the great resources of the South. Hereare shops and departments of engineering, and, notleast, instruction in making textiles, so that the cottonof southern fields need
. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . I So FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY The mills not only spin the cotton of the gulf plains butalso turn out fertilizers, work up the timber of the region,and make a multitude of other things to swell the citystrade with her neighbors. Appropriate to her needs, Atlanta has had since 1887a school of technology, in which she teaches her sons. Fig. 74. Iron Furnace, Birmingham how to develop the great resources of the South. Hereare shops and departments of engineering, and, notleast, instruction in making textiles, so that the cottonof southern fields need no longer go to Massachusettsor to England to be spun and woven. The youngest great town of the southern mountainregion was started on an old cotton plantation in 1871, CITIES OF THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS iSl thirty-four years before the writin<,^ of these lines. Thepeople knew that in Alabama as well as in Tennesseecoal and iron are found close together. So men built aniron town and called it, after one of the greatest furnacetowns in the world, Birmingham. It is a noisy, busyplace, with wide streets, swift electric cars, and blazingfurnaces. To see it grow is like watching a new Pitts-burg rise up in the heart of the South. From the Berkshire country at the north to thesouthern end of the Appalachians, there are to-day thriv-ing towns and fertile fields. No longer does
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