Show STATE how alterations have been made i AM all over the Countr country 7 the changing of the line bunei 11 ha ates haitt Hal rated tt la in the loss I OM or 0 large larf tracts tract or of land lad to 9 many of the tb eat east era states ts discovery that the she Is IN I 1 some square miles larger than she supposed is not remarkable since something of the kind has happened to perhaps every state and territory in the union saya bays the new york sun any man who bets bels on state areas ara 9 by the figures of thirty years ago ago will ivill lose the fathers of today to day who happen ta to have good memories find themselves puzzled when they hear bear their children reading areas out of the current ac school h oo 00 1 textbooks anyone who will take the trouble to t compare the areas kiven given in the census ceneus reports of 1890 and those in the reports previous to 1880 will find surprising differences difference the census superintendents dont trouble e themselves to ase ascertain areas they accept what they obtain from official sources the general land office is one source of information and doubtless official state surveys veys are arc accepted in 1880 the an superintendent perin of the census used a are re set bet of areas and superintendent porter accepted the figures of that decade or followed the same authorities the superintendents of tha census adopt an arbitrary rule of regarding all regions having less than two wo inhabitants to t the he square mile as I 1 unsettled 11 in most of the new england and middle atlantic states stalks there are no such unsettled areas superintendent porter found about square miles of the maine woods and 1000 square mil allea es of the Adirondack adirondacks a region unsettled the other unsettled areas of the northeast are arc hardly worth considering tho discrepancies between the settled areas reported in the census and those reported in 1890 are rather aart gartling ling new hampshire lost III in those twenty years more thin than square miles massachusetts gained in the same time nearly square miles vermont lost nearly 1100 square miles milea ana rhode island more e tha than n connecticut gained 95 5 square n miles iles new ne jersey lust lost more than 8 square quare miles and I 1 maryland da ryland lost more than 1200 square miles even poor little delaware lost square miles and in the census of 1000 1900 she will show a still different area as the result of her recent dickering with pennsylvania As to the newer states which might reasonably be expected to show changes in settled area from one decade to another the figures given in the census reports of 1870 and in those of af 1890 vary in even greater degree nearly all the larger fc tates whether old or new show cpu sid vid erable losses in area since 1870 new york lost nearly square miles pennsylvania rather more than 1000 virginia nearly 2000 and north carolina over florida grained gained nearly 1000 square miles probably the result 0 of f an extension of the settled area gain of nearly 1000 is ia hardly traceable to the same source though gains of boo square miles in illinois and in iowa are probably assignable to this cause |