Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1883 — Room to Turn Around In. [ARTICLE]

Room to Turn Around In.

National Republican, About 45 per cent of the land of the U. 8. remains unsurveyed to this day—very nearly 1,000,000,000 acres in all. The moun tainous section of I he far West is included in the billion acres, but, on the other hand, hundreds of millions of acres of arable territory are as free from thetouph, of the surveyor’s chains as when Columbus landed. In Minnesota alone there remain 12,090,000 acres unsurveyed, in Dakota 66,000,000 acres, in Montanaßo,ooo,ooo acres, and in the Indian Territory 369,000,000 acres, a total area of considerably more than twice as large as that of the thirteen original States. Clearly, there is room for more people in the U. 8., without danger of anybody being elbowed into the sea.