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This Is A Great Big Country

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
January
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Few Americans appreciate the vasfc exti;ut cf our national domain," said Colonel Charles C. Moffert of Denver, to the Buffalo Courier. "IfirmlybelieTe that some day in the near future we'll have air lines of transportaron betwern all points - either up iu tho air or orherwise. I'm bonnd for New York, and I'd save 12 hours' travel if I could go in a straight line from Denver to New York. For iustance, the air lino distance betweeu Chicago and New York is "CO miles; by rail it is 961 miles. From Buffajy to New York it is 295 miles in an air line, 423 miles by rail. Why, our country is eo great thafc the public lands here exceed in the number of square miles the whole of Russia in Enrope. The state of Texas is uiucb. larger tban Austria, Gerinauy orFrauee ; New Mexico is larger thau England, Irelaud, Scotland and Wales combined; Montana is larger than Norway, Missouri is larger than Turkey in Europe, Kentncky is larger than Portugal, West Virginia is larger than Greece, Arizona is as larga as Italy, Indiana is twice as large as Switzerland, and Wyoming and Oregon are as large as Spain. In the , ivent of a snccessful war of conquest 'With Great Britain, or by annexation, if the United States shonld become possessed of Canada, it would add 3,204,818 square miles of territory to the great republic, aud our total area would then be 6,807,371 square miles. We would still be one-third smaller than the Eussian empire and one-third larger than ;he Chiueso empire. "

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News