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A VAST TERRITORY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 24, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 15.

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A VAST TERRITORY

Once there was a man—so goes the story—who drove a yoke of oxen from Maine to California. It is asserted that he is the only person who has a correct idea of the size of the United States. Be that as it may, few people realize the vastness of our territorial area. Colorado, for example, is thirteen times as large as Massachusetts, and Dakota is as large again as Colorado. The eleven Territories, as accurately as can at present be ascertained, contain over one billion and a quarter of acres (1,360,385,919), exceeding by nearly two hundred thousand square miles the aggregate territory of all the present admitted States of the Union. The Territory of Alaska, containing 368,529,600 acres, is included in the number of acres stated.