I wish to submit a few statistics bearing on the resources of the proposed State. Its area. as I have said. would be 77.000 square miles. its number of acres 42.280.000. Its population. by the best estimate which can be made. taking the census of 1885 as a basis and the land entries and the statistics of immigration and the vote for ascertaining the increase of population since 1885. can not be much short of 400. 000. No authority puts it less than 382.000. and that was some time ago. while the population has been rapidly increasing. so that it may be said in round numbers to be 400.000. South Dakota has 2.770 schoolhouses.
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