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Show The economy of tbe narrow-gauge ro.idB has been so great and their success so marked as to render tbern far more popular now than they have ever been before, and it is more than prob-ible that tbe end of tbo present century will see th ree roads out of the five in the country on tbe narrow-gauge narrow-gauge system. A now line has just been completed near Cincinnati, and has added greatly to the value of real estate property in the districts through which it runs. An elevation of rive hundred feet is obtained in a distance of three miles, and rapid transit is assured in a quarter where horse-cars would have been almost useless. |