The Washington Union

STATISTICS OF THE PUBLIC LANDS.

Estimate of the quantities of land which will inure to the State
By remaining sharing the quantity of swamp land accorded to the several
States up to June, 1867,
Total.
1804.
Estimate of unsold and unappropriated lands in each of the States and
Territories including surveyed and unsurveyed, offered and unoffered
of lands, on the 30th June, 1859:
074,781
THE TERRITORIES
A comparative statement of the area of the present States with that
of the territory destined to be created into States exhibits the interesting fact that the area of the latter in square miles exceeds that of
the former. The superficial area of the Territories, organized and un.
organized, is set down as follows:
Square miles 1,807,001
To these amounts must be added, or the extent of which we have
Been no estimate.
The superficial area of the present States is as follows:
74,581
m1 .
*pt, 5s , tyi: ::
1,481,910
It is seen that the area of Kansas is nineteen thousand square miles
greater than that of all New England, New York, and New Jersey;
and that the area of Nebraska is ninety five thousand miles greater
than that of all the non slaveholding States except California. Oregon
is nearly equal in extent to all New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. It is possible that New Mexico and Mesilla
will be embraced in one territorial organization by Congress at the
present session, containing 285,000 square miles-exceeding all New
England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Washington exceeds in extent all New England and New York.