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          Among the letters of introduction  I carried with me to Mem-

phis was one to the President of the Memphis + Ohio Railway He had just returned from a short stay at the Hot Springs Mountain in Arkansas. He is one of those Gentlemen who is doing everything in his power to resuscitate the South by persuad- ing the people to turn their attention to the varied + inexhaus- tible resources they possess within their own territories. As instances of this he showed me two specimens; one of a creamy white stone he had lately brought from the Hot Springs Mountain in Arkansas + which c.d cut steel as readily as a file does soft iron. Of this stone