. The Southern States. Illinois Central, theLouisville & Nashville, the Kansas WESTERN TENNESSEE. 419 City, Memphis & Birmingham, theCotton Belt route, the St. Louis, IronMountain & Southern, together withthe Tennessee roads, the Memphis &Charleston and the Nashville, Chatta-nooga & St. Louis, are among thelines which give to Memphis her su-periority as a railroad centre; andadded to these transportation lines,acting forever as a bulwark againstunfavorable freight rates, is the greatMississippi river, with Memphis as thehead of winter navisration. Some of freight and 10,000 passengers areannua
. The Southern States. Illinois Central, theLouisville & Nashville, the Kansas WESTERN TENNESSEE. 419 City, Memphis & Birmingham, theCotton Belt route, the St. Louis, IronMountain & Southern, together withthe Tennessee roads, the Memphis &Charleston and the Nashville, Chatta-nooga & St. Louis, are among thelines which give to Memphis her su-periority as a railroad centre; andadded to these transportation lines,acting forever as a bulwark againstunfavorable freight rates, is the greatMississippi river, with Memphis as thehead of winter navisration. Some of freight and 10,000 passengers areannually carried on the Mississippi,and that the earnings of the 8000 boatsof various kinds employed in the car-rying trade amount to some $17,000,-000 a year. Statistics concerning the trade of]\Iemphis show that the total volumeof her business amounts now to about$140,000,000 annually. Of this sum,about $75,000,000 represents the ag-gregate jobbing trade. The trade incotton amounted last year to $17,-. Mempbis: School eleven lines of steamboats are main-tained out of and into Memphis, whichis and will forever be the principalriver point between St. Louis and NewOrleans. While the romance has gonefrom the river, and the picturesque olddays of steamboating on the Missis-sippi will never return, yet it still con-tinues no mean factor in the commerceof the nation, and as a regulator ofrates will always be of incalculablebenefit to the cities upon its railroads are supreme today, andyet it is estimated that 30,000,000 tons 000,000. The grocery business coniesnext with an aggregate of some $20,-000,000 annually. The wholesale drygoods business is estimated at $6,000,000a year ; the hardware business at $3,000,-000 ; the boot and shoe business at about$2,500,000. The figures available with referenceto the value of the lumber productgive only a partial idea of the extentof this industry. It is reported thatthe lumber manufactured and thetotal dealings in lumber and lu
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