Montana with 143.776 square miles of territory. Wyoming with 07.883 square miles of territory. making a total of 801.426 square miles of territory. an empire in extent. organized into seven distinct territorial governments. Into this great wilderness. where. until within the last few years. white men had never penetrated. we have invited the emigrant to settle. and today hundreds and thousands of pioneers are changing into productive usefulness this desert land. In this occupation we have promised them protection. Again. we have the unorganized Indian Territory. of 68.991 square miles. and the new Territory of Alaska. consisting of 577.390 square miles. making 1.447.807 square miles of organized and unorganized territory. over which roam 289.000 Indians . through which run the railroads I have named. laden with all the valuable commerce daily carried between the Atlantic and Pacific.
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