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States	Admitted to the Union as a State	Land area sq. miles	Area acres	Population
				1880	1910
Minnesota	1858	80,858	51,749,120	780,773	2,075,708
North Dakota	1889	70435	44,917,120	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ 135,177 $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	577,056
South Dakota	1889	76,863	49,195,520		583,888
Montana	1889	146,201	93,568,640	39,159	376,054
Idaho	1890	83,354	53,346,560	32,610	325,594
Washington	1889	66,836	42,775,040	75,116	1,141,000
Oregon	1859	95,607	61,188,480	174,768	672,765
Total		619,907	396,740,480	1,237,603	5,753,054

States	Railroad mileage		Banking capital (a)
	1880	1910	1880 (b)	1912
Minnesota	3151	8669	$6,539,238	$ 67,338,460
North Dakota	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ 1,225 $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	4,201	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ 555,363 $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	18,427,504
South Dakota		3,947		16,838792
Montana	106	4,207	382,700	18,834,517
Idaho	206	2,178	126,885	9,782,696
Washington	289	4,875	203,533	37,769,323
Oregon	508	2,284	640,657	25,945,979
Total	5,485	30,361	$8,448,376	$194,937,271
(a) Banking capital includes capital, surplus, and undivided profits.
(b) National banks only

This American Northwest of ours comprises 21 per cent of the area of the whole United States, but has only a little more than 6 per cent of the population. The railroads have been active in providing facilities, and there are only 190 people to the mile of railroad as