. The heart of the South along the line of the Atlanta & West Point and the Western railway of Alabama . re than sixthousand, being sixteen thousand seven hundredand thirteen in 1880. From 1880 to 1890 the towntook on all the more distinguishing marks of its presentlife as a community. The population at this time was estimated to be abouttwenty-seven thousand people. The population, including the suburbs, to-day(1898), is estimated to be thirty-five has to-day the following railroads: Montgomery & Mobile Railroad (I^onisville& Nashville), approaching from the South; No
. The heart of the South along the line of the Atlanta & West Point and the Western railway of Alabama . re than sixthousand, being sixteen thousand seven hundredand thirteen in 1880. From 1880 to 1890 the towntook on all the more distinguishing marks of its presentlife as a community. The population at this time was estimated to be abouttwenty-seven thousand people. The population, including the suburbs, to-day(1898), is estimated to be thirty-five has to-day the following railroads: Montgomery & Mobile Railroad (I^onisville& Nashville), approaching from the South; North and South Railroad (Louisville & Nashville),from the North; The Western Railway of Alabama, extending from Atlanta, via Montgomery toSelma; Central of Georgia Railway, connecting Montgomery with Savannah via Eufaula; AlabamaMidland Railroad, connecting Montgomery and Bainbridge and forming a part of the Plant System;Georgia & Alabama Railway, extending from Montgomery to Savannah; Montgomery, Tuskaloosa &Memphis Railroad (Mobile & Ohio), extending from Montgomery northwest. 89. MONTGOMERY COTTON MILL. Tlie merchants of Montgomery are full\ to the benefits of river competition, and :i ^number of steamboats ply between Montgomery ]and Mobile on the Alabama River. The city has about twenty-five miles ofwell equipped electric street railway, which affords transit facilities to every portion of the city andsuburbs. All the main streets are paved with granite blocks or a high class of brick. There is acomplete system of sanitary sewerage, put in according to the Waring System, and water-works, witha capacity of fiftj millions of gallons daily of artesian water. The death rate of Montgomery is among the lowest in the country. There is a fine gradedsystem of public schools that rank with the best in the South, and in addition there are a numberof high-class private schools. The average annual cotton receipts exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand bales ofcotton, and in
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