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 the 120,000 acres selected by the corporation in Idaho aggregate a total of $7,200,000, based upon a conservative market valuation of $60 per acre. This makes a total of $49,200,000 for its selected lands alone, without counting the $1,600,00 the Northern Pacific received from outsiders for lieu, or the $1,560,000 it got from the Weyerhaeuser Syndicate. It all foots up $52,360,000 that was given the Hill corporation through the kindness of Congress—a sort of present from the people of the United States, as it were—and is a sermon in itself as to the measures liable to be employed by the company to remove all obstacles in the way of getting the selections through the Land Department in Washington, D. C.

Appended herewith is a list of selections made in the Oregon City (now Portland) and Roseburg Land Districts by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. They aggregate 197,447.33 acres, and constitute the bulk of these selections in Oregon. The balance, necessary to make up the total of 320,000 acres selected by the railway corporation in Oregon, is divided among the four other Land Districts, those in the two named being the most important.

Surveyed lands selected by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, in the Roseburg, Oregon, Land District:

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