. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and 313 18,57, 4,142,744 1S67, 7,041,114 1^*58, 3,804,908 18(53, 6,(i5:i,743 1859, 3,9)1,680 1869, 7,, 186 J, 4,o00,0j0 1870, 8,095,413 Total 62,85,782 ropn 15,081,894 43,19i,81017,217,010 The total sales of land, from the openingof the land offices to 187l>, including grantsunder the homestead laws, were 176,488,736acres. There Jiave been issued land warrantsto soldiers, which iiave taken up large jior-tions of the land. These warrants are for 160acres, 120 acres, 80 acres, and 40 acres, andhave been sold
. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and 313 18,57, 4,142,744 1S67, 7,041,114 1^*58, 3,804,908 18(53, 6,(i5:i,743 1859, 3,9)1,680 1869, 7,, 186 J, 4,o00,0j0 1870, 8,095,413 Total 62,85,782 ropn 15,081,894 43,19i,81017,217,010 The total sales of land, from the openingof the land offices to 187l>, including grantsunder the homestead laws, were 176,488,736acres. There Jiave been issued land warrantsto soldiers, which iiave taken up large jior-tions of the land. These warrants are for 160acres, 120 acres, 80 acres, and 40 acres, andhave been sold in the markets at $1 per acrefor the smaller lots, and about 80 cts. thelarger wairants, by which means the landscome less to the buyer. In addition to (helands sold, the government has donated 6,),-06(5,802 acres to schools ; 6,851,989 acres toagricultural coUcges; 44,971 to deaf anddumb asylums ; 12,403,054 to internal im-provements; 2,210,184 to individuals ; 146,-860 to seats of government; 61, tomilitary services; 514,585 salines to states; C b-- i u-; l4 b-i b-i. WESTERN SETTLEMENT AND TRADE. 115 1,1, Iiiflhin reserves; ,244 pri-vate claims; ,240 swamp lands,grantedto states; 27,,522 to railroads, etc.; re-served for individuals, companies,and corpor-ations, 8,955,3,)4 acres; and there remainunsold lands on hand, the trifle of 1,396,-2S6,1G4 acres. The population of the land states had in-creased, it appears, from 2,233,881 > in 1830,to 17,217,610 in 1870, during which periodof forty jears, 174,451,784 acres of landwere sold by the Government. Theseland sales and population are the groundwork of the national trade, which grows withthe surplus produced by the land people at first make few purchases ofgoods, but increase them as their surplusproduce sells and enables them to do so. The people who seek new Lands on whichto rear their future homes and fortunes, are,for the most part, not possessed of muchcapital, and under o
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