. Before the United States Railroad Labor Board : argument for a wage increase . Peninsula Only)Owner UOoOf Acres, Cleveland Cliffs Iron Oo- -_____-_ 1^515^000 Kew®Bnnaw Associatioii (ltd) ---------- 373 goo The Michigaft Xroa &! Land Coi(ltd) S24]oOO I. Stephenson interests ------------ 302,000 Ghicaprb 8a Northwestern 186,000 United ^States Steel Corportation 171,000 130 other holders own _____ 5,624,000 Total Aoreege (136 holders) - 6,495,000 A-^erage numher of acres per holder 47,760 Tot-1 improved acreage in Michigan(entire ^tate)1^,832,078 Total numher of farms __-_ 206,960 Average
. Before the United States Railroad Labor Board : argument for a wage increase . Peninsula Only)Owner UOoOf Acres, Cleveland Cliffs Iron Oo- -_____-_ 1^515^000 Kew®Bnnaw Associatioii (ltd) ---------- 373 goo The Michigaft Xroa &! Land Coi(ltd) S24]oOO I. Stephenson interests ------------ 302,000 Ghicaprb 8a Northwestern 186,000 United ^States Steel Corportation 171,000 130 other holders own _____ 5,624,000 Total Aoreege (136 holders) - 6,495,000 A-^erage numher of acres per holder 47,760 Tot-1 improved acreage in Michigan(entire ^tate)1^,832,078 Total numher of farms __-_ 206,960 Average numher of acres per fflrm _-_- 52 PA^IS-IQ STATES Northern Pacific Railway Go. ___ 9,950,000 Southern Pacific Railway 90, ------ - -13,880,000 ^ Santd F6 Rail77ay Co. - - - - - 9,653,000 Total acreage (3 holders) --- ____ 33,483,000 m Total limproved in the nine states ofIdaho .Wyoming, New Mexico .Montana, Utah,Nevad^,Washington, Oregonand California 33,300,736 Total number of farms _-__ __ 318,140 Average number of ceres per farm ------- 104. Shaded Portion fiepresents Equivalent ofFederal and Texas Land Grants to West-ern Railrodds—305,114 Square Miles. Note particularly the ownersdip of SS,483,000 acres by tkiree railroads in nine western States, In these same States tfcie total of ijnproved farm acreage oiwned by over 300,000 farmers amounts to only 33,300,736 acres. In the Report of the united. States Bureau of Corporations on the lumber Industry this is remarked as follows: After enormous sales to such companies as the Weyer-haeuser Timber Company aad the Amalgamated Copper Companyand after sales of other vast quantities to smaller pur-chasers the lands still held by the Northern pacific, to-. gether with that of the Southern pacific and the 9,700^000acres of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe makes the pres-ent timbered and non-timbered holdings of these threerailroads over 33,500,000 acres, an area as large us ttiiitof England. As a matter
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