Now. if the amount appropriated is continued at $325.000. we have no reason to expect that there will be any larger sum appropriated for Alaska than last year. to wit. $5.000. In fact. the States having unsurveyed lands would object to any larger apportionment to Alaska than this. Immigration to the Western country and settlement there make the demand for these surveys very great. so that the apportionment already made to the States is none too large. Consequently. if the amount of the appropriation is not increased. we can not ask that any greater sum than $5.000 be allowed for surveys in Alaska. Now. the condition of things up there is such that there is no encouragement for settlement or the taking up of lands in that Territory without surveys.
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