Alaska

an unorganized Territors in the Western Division of the Nortl American Union, comprising the ex. treme northwestern part of the Amer. ican continent; bounded by the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, Bering Sea, Brit ish Columbia, and the Northwest Ter. ritories of Canada; gro area, as fat as determined, 581,107 square miles: urchased from Ru ia, in 1867, fo1 $7,200,000: given a_ territorial dis ’ trict government in 1884. The ‘<a lati on by the 1900 census was 63,592, ’ and by that of 1910, 64,356, show: ing a gpm of only 764.