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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. 21
UNITED STATES GENERAL FUND.
Condition at close of fiscal year,
June 30, 1924:
Assets.
Gold ........................$153,081,32166
Silver dollars ............... 17,906,085.00
United States notes.......... 4,260,547.00
Federal Reserve notes........ 1,139,915.00
Federal Reserve Bank notes.. 193,898.00
National Bank notes.......... 18,291,051.50
Subsidiary silver coin........ 8,073,899.78
Minor coin................. t2,00,424.38
Silver bullion................ 30,643,853.87
Unclassified ................. 8,970,512.21
Deposits in land banks....... 1,000,000.00
Deposits in Fed. Res. Banks.. 46,024.890.08
Other deposits............. 192,476,616.19
Total .................... .$484,763,014.67
Liabilities.
Treasurer's checks outstand-
ing ............. .... $1,425,136.62
Deposits of Government offices:
Postoffice Department..... 13,092,914.26
Postal savings ............. 6,621,105.90
Comptroller Currency....... 5,006,994.26
Postmasters, etc.......... 38,173,679.28
Other................... 1,257,815.92
Deposits for:
Redemption Fed. Res. notes 141,046,727.99
Redemption Nat. Bank notes 30,579,982.57
Retirement additional circu-
lating notes ............... 8,745.00
Uncollected items............ 12,138,431.35
Subtotal................$249,351,533.15
Net balance ............... 235,411,481.52
Total ................... $484,763,014.67UNITED STATES AREA AND TER.
RITORIAL ACCESSIONS.
Continental.
Territory- Area (Sq. Mi.).
Original thirteen colonies. 1790..... 862,105
Louisiana Purchase, 1803........... 827,987
Florida, 1819................-....... 58,666
By treaty with Spain in 1819...... 183,435
*Texas, 1845...x................ 38.166
Oregon, 1846.......................... 28 41
Mexican cession, 1848.............. 529,189
Gadsden Purchase, 1853 .............. 29,670
Outlying Territories and
Dependencies.
Alaska, 1857.. .................... 590,884
Hawaiian Islands, 1898............ 6,449
Porto Rico. 1899.................. 3,435
Guam, 1899.................. . 210
Philippine Islands, 1899........... 144,988
Samoa. 1900............... _ 58
Addition to Philippines, 1901...... 68
Panama Canal Zone, 1904.......... 527
Virgin Islands, 1917.............. 132
Total gross area of United States
Sat present....................3,743,510
*Original area of Texas, includ-
ing parts of the present States of
New Mexico,'- Oklahoma, Kansas,
Colorado and- Wyoming. Texas
disposed of this area in 1850 to the
United States for $10,000,000.BRIEF HISTORY OF TEXAS-
A crew of shipwrecked Spaniards were the first white men to-set foot
upon Texas soil. The mishari occurred in 1528, probably on Galveston
or St. Joseph Island, but the exact spot is not known. Most of the
crew soon died, but there was one Cabeza de Baca who survived and
made his way back to Mexico City, traversing a portion of Southern
Central Texas on his way. Some years afterward Coronado led an expe-
dition from Mexico City northward into New Mexico and Arizona in
search of wealth and made an excursion into Texas, covering portions of
the Plains and Midwest Texas.
Early conquistadores, going north from Mexico City into New
Mexico, in search of the "Seven Cities of Gold," often went by the route
of El Paso del Norte, from which the present El Paso is named. Ysleta,
which is a- few miles southeast of El Paso, was settled in 1682 and is the
oldest town within the State.
La Salle, at the head of a French expedition, seeking the mouth of
the Mississippi River, was driven from his course and landed at Lavaca
Bay in February, 1685, founding there Fort St. Louis. He was killed by
one of his men and his little colony disappeared, but news of the French
attempt spread to the Spanish authorities in Mexico and quickened their
efforts to settle Texas.After several preliminary expedi-
tions into Texas, a fort and inission
were established by the Spaniards
under Capt. De Leon in 1690 on the
Neches River about twenty-five
miles northeast of the present siteof Crockett, but it was soon aban-
doned.
However, the French had settle
in Louisiana and their trading ac=
tivities with Indians in East Texas
soon spurredl the Spaniards into Sa,
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