These surveys are made at the expense of the people of the States on the ground that they will bring the public lands into market and thereby inure to the benefit of the people generally. But these Government surveys are of peculiar interest to the people of the Territories. and these benefits continue after the Territories are admitted into the Union as States. and give them groat advantages over the old States whose State surveys are inaccurate and less reliable than the Government surveys. The local surveys are unreliable and are regarded by capitalists and the foreign countries fron which we draw emigration with suspicion. indeed as worthless. Many of the States are richer in mineral deposits. both in quantity and quality. than the Territories. notably Virginia. West Virginia.
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