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Title: A hand book of Virginia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration Koiner, George W. (George Wellington), 1852-1939
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Publisher: Richmond, Everett Waddey Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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In 1909 the mines of Virginiaproduced 4,752,217 tons of coal, an increase of 2,872,047 tons,or 152.8 per cent, over 1899. As in agriculture, so in industries I believe that we may lookforward to continued progress in Virginia and to greater diversi-fication in manufactures, chiefly in the direction of the buildingup of industries which wall use as their raw materials the finishedproducts of the primary manufacturers of the State and preparethem for the final consumer. The Virginia manufacturer, as wellat the Virginia farmer, has the advantage of proximity to thedensely populated region along the North Atlantic coast. Thecontinued development of the State will provide enlarged homemarkets both for the farmer and the manufacturer. One of thebest markets that the farmer can have is a thriving city or manu-facturing town with easy wagon haul of his farm, and the bestmarkets that manufacturers in many lines can have are thrivingagricultural communities within easy reach of their factories.
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General Description of Virginia Virginia is one of the middle Atlantic States of the UnitedStates of America, lying midway between Maine on the north andFlorida on the south. It is also in the belt of central States acrossthe continent from east to west. Its latitude is from 36° 31 to39° 27 N., corresponding to Southern Europe, Central Asia,Southern Japan and California. Its longitude is from 77° 13to 83° 37 west from Greenwich. It extends 2° 57 north andsouth and 9° 24 east and west. On the south it adjoins North Carolina for 326 miles and Ten-nessee for 114 miles, making the line of the State from the Atlanticwest 440 miles; on the west and northwest, Kentucky for 115miles and West Virginia (by a very irregular line) for 450 miles,form the boundary. Maryland is northeast and north, separatedby the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay for 205 miles from Virginia(to which these waters belong) and by a line of 25 miles acrossthe Eastern Shore. East and southeast is bordered by the Atlantic

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