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Show THIS IS A DIP COUNTRY. j If Vim llon't llctloio It t.litfll to Tlill Mn'I!i'inirlt. I "I'etv Amcilcaiis upprceiate tho vasr extent of our national domain," said Col. Charles ('. Moltcrt, of Deuter, to the Duftiilo Courier. "I firmly believe that omo day In tho near future we 11 hate.iir lines of tinnsportutlon between .II points clthgr up In the nlr or oth erwise, rill uumm lor ew iorx, uun I'd Ktte12 hours', travel If I could travel in n slriilght lintiLUnm Denver to New York, l'or Instance, the nlr line between be-tween Chicago nnd New York Is 700 miles; by lollltlsOOl miles, ft-uiu Buffalo Buf-falo to New York ItlsSnSinlleslnnnnir line, 42'J inllea by rail. Why, our country coun-try is mi grent that the public lands here exceed In the number of e-piaic mllcK the whole ot Hubsla In Kurope The state of Texas is much larger than Austria, Germany or Trance; New Mexico Mex-ico Is larger than Uugland, Ireland, Scotland and Wales combined; Montana Mon-tana is larger than Norway; Missouri Is larger than Turkey In Kurope, Kentucky Ken-tucky Is larger than rortugnl.W est Virginia Vir-ginia Is larger than Greece, Arizona Is us larfro as Italy, Indiana is twice ns large nS Sw Iterland, and Wyomlngnud Oregon me as largo its Spain. In th' event of it successful wnr of conquest with Orent Britain, or by nnncMitlon, If the Cultcd i'.tnlcH should become pos-rested pos-rested of Canada, it would add 3.S0I.31) squat e miles of territory to tho great icpublic, nnd our total area would then 'be (1,807,371 square miles. We would still bo one-third smaller than the Itussliin empire, and one-third larger than the Qlpcsc empire." |