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navigation. The land is said to be worth from $5 to $15 per acre. This State
is said to be very well adapted to agriculture and stock raising. In the
southern part, mining is said to be profitable.
NEW-MEXco.-Area, 121,201 square miles. Population, 28,000. Capital,
Santa F6. This Territory bounds Northern Texas on the west and partly
also on the south. This is mainly a desert, mountainous region, but has
some good farms, with orchards, etc., on the irrigable lands in the neighbor-
hood of Santa Fe and on the Gila and Colorado rivers. Its gold, silver, and
copper mines are said to be extensive and rich, but we have no room for the
mining statistics in detail.
CALIFORNIA was admitted as a State in 1850, without ever having a Terri-
torial Government. Area, 158,687 square miles. Population, 500,000. Capital,
Sacramento City. This State, with its extensive gold products, its rapid growth
in wealth and population, is too well known to need any full account in this
volume. Coal oil or petroleum is now numbered among its products. The
wine crop is rapidly extending from year to year. The gravelly, sandy, dry
soil that produces such excellent wine in California, is found in nearly all
parts of Texas.
NEVADA.-Area, 81,539 square miles, Population, 45,000. Capital, Carson
City. Commercial centre, Virginia City, with a population of 10,000. It is
barely five years since this Territory began to be settled, but its rich silver mines
have been a great attraction and proved a source of much wealth. The agri-
cultural resources are extremely limited, the country barren, and the prices
of every necessary of life exorbitant. The export of the precious metals,
from 1860 to 1866, have amounted to about $5,000,000 annually.
MoxTANA.-Area, 201,373 square miles. Population, 30,000. Capital,
Virginia City. Montana has had a separate Territorial Goverment only since
1864,having been previously a part of Idaho. This Territory is said to have con-
siderable good tillable and growing land, but like most of the other Territories,
the chief attraction has been its mines, and nearly the same may be said of
IDAHO, whose area is 125,000 square miles. Population, 25,000. Capital,
Idaho City. The settlement of this Territory has been caused almost entirely
by its mines, as of others on either side of the Rocky Mountains.
MI ESOTA.-Area, 84,000 square miles. Population 250,000. Capital,
St. Paul. Territory organized in 1849, with a population then of 4000.
Minnesota admitted as a State in 1858. Population of St. Paul now about
20,000. This is a fine State for agriculture, near three fourths of its land
being tillable.
IowA.-Area, 55,914 square miles. Population 850,540. Capital, Des
Moines. This is a splendid farming State. Wool growing is also carried on
successfully. The lead mines are very valuable.
Missounr.-Area, 67,380 square miles. Population, in 1860, 1,058,352.
Capital, Jefferson City.
KlAsAs.--Area, 80,000 square miles. Population in 1865,167,206. Capital,
Topeka.
NEBRASxA.-Area, 76,000 square miles. ' Population in 1860, 28,842. Capi-
tal, Omaha City.
DaKoTA.--Area, 152,00 square miles. Population; 9000. Capital, Yank-
ton.
RArLwAs.-The Pacific Railway extends from St. Louis to Lawrence, in
Kansas, about 300 miles. The Union Pacific extends from Lawrence to To-
peka, 67 miles west of the Missouri river, and was graded to Fort Riley, 134
miles west of the Missouri river, and is now probably about completed the
whole distance. The South-west Branch extends from St Lou's to Rolia,
118 miles. The St: Louis Iron Mouniaik- Railway extends to Pilot Knob.
a distance of 87 miles. The Cairo anf.t lton Railway extends from Cairo to
Buff ngton in the south-eastcorner of Misoo m, a distance of 37 miles. Texas is
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/70/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.