Iowa has sold all but 200 acres of the 6,000,000 granted her. 

 Never having had a minimum price limit, she has as a fund 

 from the proceeds of their sale somewhat less than $5,000,000. 

 Wisconsin is in much the same class. Michigan, with 9,000,000 

 acres, all gone, has nearly $6,000,000 from them. Illinois, with 

 about as many acres to dispose of as Iowa, and none left, has 

 a paltry million from them in her treasury. 



Turn to Minnesota. Of the imperial domain of more than 

 8,0'00,000 acres granted to her, she still has over 2,000,000 

 acres, and those of the richest; and what she has sold has 

 yielded her the sum of $30,000,000 in the form of a perma- 

 nent fund, upon which she receives an average of 4 per cent 

 interest. 



Equally interesting is the record of the states which have 

 been wise enough to profit by her example. North Dakota, 

 with a total acreage of 3,000,000, of which more than half 

 remains unsold, has $9,000,000 in her treasury over twice as 

 much as Iowa or Wisconsin, which have stripped themselves 

 bare of a far larger heritage. South Dakota has done even 

 better, for with 3,000,000 acres left of her original 3,500,000, 

 she has a fund of $12,000,000. 



Minnesota expects $1,000,000 this year, merely from her ore 

 royalties on lands leased before the repeal of the royalty law. 

 Auditors' estimates of her ultimate receipts from the sale of 

 all lands have steadily mounted until now the figure is $200,- 

 00 : 0;000. Each of the Dakotas looks forward to a total fund 

 of $50,000,000. 



Oils distilled from tlie needles of spruce and fir irees are being 

 used to scent petroleum floor oils which ore sometimes objection- 

 able on account of their odor. 



The average area administered by a ranger on the federal for- 

 ests of the United States is about 100,000 acres. In Germany the 

 area administered by a man of equivalent work is about 700 

 acres. 



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