| Show J ajo iJO hits tits t tuk tui ne 4 ila 1 f it has h as been bald that there thero is only one man who has a correct idea of the bize size of the united states and he Is the man who drove a yoke yok of oxen in 1850 ISSO 61 from maine to california however this ihla may ie be the newspaper remark that mew few tew people realize the immensity of our territorial area 1 is true there are in the west eleven territories or three of which are twice or three times as large as all new england and it is a small territory that mat Is not at least lent ten times as large as massachusetts colorado is thirteen tim times 1 es as large as mas man Bachu while dakota and arizona Arlzo arizo iia lia are arg half as large again as colorado the eig ole eleven territories are accurately as can at present ba be ascertained contain over one billion and a quarter of acres 1036 W gig exceeding by nearly two hundred thousand aa quale miles the aggregate territory of all at t present admitted states of the union the territory of alasin alaska containing acres Is is included in the number of acres stated there may be a good deal of information in one way ay or another but bat in point of bt fact very little knowledge of the great west in the atlantic states not that we do not know now generally the geography of the country the names of the states and territories the mountains and rivers possibly the tho distance across the continent and what Is often stated with a good deal of particularity it the height of the land above tilo the level of 0 the no sea but the vasteen of the coun conn try its millions millio aff of square miles and hend billions of broad acres ia Is not easily realized an any eny TI more than lathe Is largeness of thi the sum aum in do dollars lara lars that goes to make up the national debt we get an art imperfect idia idea of an sh area or space from the mere were statement of a million of acres and we are little littleness than a thousand times worse off when ife ire we spread over a billion of acres and yet when the in the great west ii are spoken of oc come into frequent A a cincinnati aimes |
