. Territorial and commercial expansion of the United States, 1800-1900. area in 1S90 was 4,759, and in 1900, ; the number of post-officesin 1890, 12,919; in 1900, 16,228; the miles of railway in operation in 1890 numbered 51,823, and in 1899, 59,324, or 31 per cent of the totalrailway mileage of the country. FUTURE POSSIBILITIES CONSIDERED. The power of this vast area with its agricultural and mineral wealth to sustain a population much greater than that which it nowsupports is suggested by a comparison of its area with the area and population of the prosperous countries of Europe. The to
. Territorial and commercial expansion of the United States, 1800-1900. area in 1S90 was 4,759, and in 1900, ; the number of post-officesin 1890, 12,919; in 1900, 16,228; the miles of railway in operation in 1890 numbered 51,823, and in 1899, 59,324, or 31 per cent of the totalrailway mileage of the country. FUTURE POSSIBILITIES CONSIDERED. The power of this vast area with its agricultural and mineral wealth to sustain a population much greater than that which it nowsupports is suggested by a comparison of its area with the area and population of the prosperous countries of Europe. The total area is875,025 square miles and is slightly less than that of the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, andSwitzerland, whose total area is 885,978; with a present population of 202,363,57:. as against a present population of 14,708,616 in theterritory under consideration, whose agricultural and mineral possibilities fully equal those of the European States named. 1902.] TERRITORIAL AND COMMERCIAL EXPANSION OP THE UNITED STATES. 371. 2So. 7.—1803. Louisiana Purchase Added to the Territory of the United States, moTre than Doubling its Land Abea. f-r-
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