We have the KnuxviUe branch of the L A- N It
R. dividing the county from Knt to Wast and the
C. S. R R from North to Njuth, the K C. R R
from thit place to Cincinnati, cro stint the C (tu,
at mchekter. giving full acceai to the atarkattal
the wh.Je world. IIcshIu., we have three larfe
riour .miii. in ine county taat give as a market
fur all our giain right at home; and ike d.elaai
ment of the mountain regions ol Kattern asul
South-eastern Kentucky bv lailroadt and the oat-let
South hy railroads hat created such a demand
fr ail kinds of cereals and umteiHhr that weeaa
scarcely retain enough for bomcconsumtHleu.
I he people are prosperous, generous and kind,
believing in Christianity and education. There
it not a neighborhood in the couHty but luia
gcod church and
Stanford, the county seat of Lincoln, is a prosperous
little city of about s.too inhab.taiilt and 11
the great doorway from the North and North- I
east ivj'jth and from the Northwest to outheatt,
and ttandmg at it doet gating right Into the ,
om of the undeveloped mountains of Southeastern
Kentucky backed up by the whoto HI 110 Grata '
region ot the State with railrcuds running through
it tu all points of the compass, rnakus it naturally J
one of the best located towns In the South fur!
mannfactures and other enterprlt ct of magnitude.
Water Workt are now being agitated and right)
aoouc tne luwn anoint ot a mile
there could be erected Water Workt with pry
little cost that would supply a city of 150,000 in
habitants with the purest and bett water in the
world Our little city htt been newly rebuilt in
the last few jeartand Its business houtardrot.
