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Excerpt from The Centennial Gazetteer of the United States: A Geographical and Statistical Encyclopædia of the States, Territories, Counties, Townships, Lages, Post-Offices, Mountains, Rivers, Lake, Etc., In the American Union, Showing the Extent of Its Growth, the Vastness of Its Wealth and Resources The railroad statistics have been taken from H. V. Poor's Railroad Manual, and the American Railway Manual by Edward Vernon. Several of the state and territorial governments (as Washington, Utah, Arkansas, South Carolina, have published treatises on their natural resources, etc., designed to guide emigrants in the selection of new homes. These have been made use of as far as the information given appeared reliable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.