This gentleman stated to me tonight that Petermann uses Wheelers malts as his authority. and a the best maps of the portion of the United States to which they apply that have ever been made. It seems to me that as a Congress we can do no better work for the whole people of the country than to provide them with the most accurate knowledge of all the facts connected with the western pertions of our country. If we ever return to a state of prosperity. as we hope to do. we expect an immigration to this country greater than ever before. Those who nay conic here ought to be able to find out the positive facts. the last bottom facts. in regard to the country. in order that they may know where are the best lands for them to settle upon. that they may avoid the sterile hills of Now England and be able to fiud most readily the valuable agricultural and timber lands of the West. It seems tome that. considerbighow very small this appropriation is. how vast the results that have been produced. wo should make the greatest mistake in the world if we stopped the course of investigatiou which has been pursued of late years and which has een so very valuable. much more so. considering the amount of money expended. than the results of any other expenditure in which we have engaged.
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