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Show ONE-THIRD OF PEOPLE IN ORIGINAL STATES Washington. May 9. Of the 88 million mil-lion people In the United States, Alaska Alas-ka included, about one-third live In the thirteen original states, according to a statement made today by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce com-merce and labor. Another third live . In the states created from the terrl- I tory ceded to the common union by the original states and the remaining third in the area added by purchase and annexation. an-nexation. The statement also shows that in 1908 there wore 754.89S.000 acres of unappropriated un-appropriated and unreserved land, of which almost one-half was In Alaska, 61,177,000 acres In Nevada, 46.532,000 In Montana, 4477S.000 In New Mexico, and 42,739 in Arizona. |