| 4,839
Savannah, Ga. | 1,130| 2,419| 2,870 | 154.1 | 3,330
Louisville, Ky. | 17,103| 24,159| 29,926 | 7.5 | 24,985
Chattanooga, Tenn.[C] | | 5,200| 5,472 | 5.2 | 6,984
Memphis, Tenn. | 2,268| 5,497| 8,433 | 271.8 | 8,153
Nashville, Tenn. | 4,791| 7,275| 8,447 | 76.3 | 8,435
Birmingham, Ala.[C] | | 3,247| 6,675 | 105.6 | 3,987
Mobile, Ala. | 704| 2,719| 2,827 | 301.5 | 2,496
New Orleans, La. | 9,504| 22,342| 19,435[E]| 104.5 | 17,631
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| | | | |
Total |131,979|212,313|233,925 | 60.9[F] |208,186
------------------------+-------+-------+----------+----------+---------
[A] Does not include proprietors, salaried officers, clerks,
_etc._

[B] 1880, Tenth Census, _Manufactures_, pp. xxiv, xxv; 1890 and
1900, 11th Census, _Manufactures, Part ii_, pp. 7, 108, 115,
134, 279, 300, 335, 831, 848, 908; 1905, 12th Census, vol.
viii, _Manufactures, Part ii_, pp. 20, 142, 152, 179, 339, 361,
403, 1025, 1056, 1127.

[C] No return for 1880.

[D] Figures for 1905 are less and are not comparable with
preceding figures, because in 1905 all neighborhood work and
establishments for custom work and repairing were excluded.

[E] Does not include cotton compressing in 1900.

[F] Fourteen cities; Chattanooga and Birmingham are omitted.

The industrial pull of Southern cities, then, is shown both by the
increase in the average number of wage-earners and in the total value
of manufactured products.

There is no reason to doubt that commercial enterprise has operated
and kept pace with industrial activity in causing the growth of these
urban centers. Figures for the trade of these sixteen Southern cities
are not available. However, we have side lights upon the commercial
life in the amount of railroad building that has taken place in the
South since 1860. In 1860, there were only 8,317 miles of railroad in
the thirteen states from Maryland and Delaware to Arkansas and Texas.
In 1900, there were 46,735.86 miles in the same territory, an increase
of 461.9 per cent. From 1900 to 1905 this increased to 55,239.22 miles
or 18.2 per cent in the five years.[10] Likewise the traffic
operations, including total tonnage, and f