Emery County Progress | 1906-02-17 | Page 3 | The Great World Map

the great world map geographers representing the prin cipal nations are at work upon a map of the entire earth on a scale of 1 to 1000 and professor benck the german geographer reports that 69 evets out of planned had been completed up to march last A dis I 1 tance of one mile will be represented by a space about one sixteenth of an inch long there are of course many maps of small areas on a much larger scale than this but to represent the whole face of the known world on this scale is an undertaking of vast inter est tit bits