Show FIXES FIXES S THE COUNTRY'S AREA AREA I I Geological Survey Sl r Adds J 1188 Square Ci tl to Previous lou Pi l U What cong consumes lute the area arca of urle the United Stales Slates Probably any eighth ru 1 hl high h school hool boy or 01 Sill guI In the public schools of oC Utah would think it i easy to II answer that question but hut th the United States s geological urvey iune finds It more difficult ami all has hat recently added square miles to Uncle Sams Sam's domain do do- main h by Ia closer calculation than had bad badt t I been before beCore made The flu In giving an aim exact answer to the question ques I tion ton lies les in a careful of oC time the land urea area to which m must tt be u added the time area Uca of or time the three mile sea limit alow allowed cd under the tho regulations of In International In- In law The Thc land area arca of uC the United DulLed States Stales States proper has been exactly lined measured meas macas- and chat chatted ted un under cr the lie operations of thc hc coast survey but bul the time computation n thou tion of oC time tho tulle three sea a Is not so 10 easy cask TIme Tho ho problem Involves cs all al tho Im bays j and ts bs along alons the time immense im immense im- im mense macuse coa coast t line Ino of ot time the country and th r Is room roul for fH much divergence of results when it I comes to tu drawing lines across the mouths of or large bays baH anti and measuring hem out three miles mies with wih all al their endless irregularities and In In- In Finally after much n figuring figur U ing Ilg anti and thought on the subject the geological Is out with pith wih a n state state- that thai 14 11 SS square miles should be he 11 added to 10 the last census figures In Inthe the lime census of oC l 1000 1900 OO tIme the area rca of time the United States Stalls was given as O which with 11 1188 SS added would give ji square miles as the thc correct a Irea area rca Tim The h area given for CO Ala Alaska ka Is SSI square miles mies It I Is subject to 10 considerable con comm modification in iii II t the future C as as the tIme position of the limo coast line becomes heller bettem hellI known The fht area c given In for fOI forthe he the Philippine Islan Islands j is 11 ro G miles mils mil's and was determined h by bythe the coast t Ill e survey of jf that archipelago at ut time the Instance of oC the time Philippine Philippine Philip Philip- 1 pine pile cen census us It I also uhl Is subject Cl to tl modification as accurate charts of or I Hawaii 61 G. 1 9 square miles an and Poe Porto to Illco miles arc arc probably ably bly subject ii to only slight blight changes as the thc charts from which they the were measured ate quite luRe accurate heareas Time The areas arcas given cn for COl the time other small mal Ilo possessions posses e lulls of tC time the Guam 2 I 1 0 square miles mies Samoa 77 s miles mies and the thc Panama Palama canal strip sUlp 1 1 i 7 I squat o miles viii wi will probably be chal changed in II time the future rulure as their thel limits become COIC more mole correctly defined |