the close of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, the Bureau had mapped 

 3,486 square miles, or 2,231,040 acres. Four and a half years later, at 

 the close of the calendar year ended December 31, 1904, it had mapped 

 88,812 square miles, or 56,867,200 acres. This vast area is distributed 

 among the different States and Territories as follows: 



Location and size of areas surveyed and mapped by the Bureau of Soils to December 31, 



1904. 



