Excerpt from The Ozark Mountain Region of Missouri and Arkansas: As It Appears Along the Line of the Kansas City Southern Railway Joplin, Mo 18 a great manufacturing center, and is the banking point for a lead and zinc mining industry, the output of which is valued annually at from fourteen to sixteen million dollars, and in which over people are interested. Fort Smith is also an important manufacturing point, and is the commercial center for another great coal field. Texarkana and Shreveport have great woodworking plants, numerous factories of all kinds, and handle great quantities of cot ton. Woodworking plants are found at mos-t stations on the line, and for its length there is greater industrial activity along the Kan sas City Southern Railway than on any other railway in the United States. Beyond the home demands for farm pro duce is that of the larger cities like Kansas City and 'st. Louis, Mo Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; Memphis, Tenn., and New Orleans, La., any of which cam be reached within twenty-four to thirty hours. 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.