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fication, land description and title abstracting is easily five times 

 as expensive in the thirteen original states as compared with 

 work of the same quahty in the states which are divided up into 

 townships. Naturally the cost per acre varies within wide hmits 

 but it may be of interest to know that the title investigations on 

 1,000,000 acres in Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Caro- 

 lina, South Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania cost the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture 17 cents per acre in 1918. 



