Alien Holders Of Our Lands
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This section is from the book "Manual Of Useful Information", by J. C Thomas. Also available from Amazon: Manual of useful Information.
Alien Holders Of Our Lands
The following is a table of the leading alien holders of lands in the United States, with amount of holdings in acres:
An English syndicate, No. 3, in Texas............................... | 3,000.000 |
The Holland Land Company, New Mexico.............. | 4,500,000 |
Sir Edw. Reid and a syndicate, Florida......................................................................... | 2,000,000 |
English syndicate in Mississippi......................................................................... | 1,800,000 |
Marquis of Tweedale........................................................................................ | 1,750,000 |
Phillips, Marshall & Co., London........................................................................................ | 1,300,000 |
German-American syndicate, London......................................................................... | 750.000 |
Bryan H. Evans, of London...................................................................................................... | 700,000 |
Duke of Sutherland.................................................................................................................... | 425,000 |
British Land Company in Kansas........................................................................................ | 320.000 |
Wm. Wharley, M.P., Peterboro, England................................................................... | 310,000 |
Missouri Land Company, Edinburgh, Scotland............................................ | 300,000 |
Robert Tennent, of London.................................................................................................... | 230,000 |
Dundee Land Company, Scotland........................................................................................ | 247,000 |
LordDunmore................................................................................................................................... | 120,000 |
Benjamin Neugas, Liverpool........................................................................................ | 100.000 |
Lord Houghton in Florida........................................................................................ | 60,000 |
Lord Dunraven in Colorado........................................................................................ | 60,000 |
English Land Company in Florida........................................................................................ | 50,000 |
English Land Company in Arkansas........................................................................................ | 50,000 |
Albert Peel, M.P., Leicestershire, England................................................................. | 10,000 |
Sir J. L. Kay, Yorkshire, England........................................................... | 5,000 |
Alexander Grant, of London, in Kansa................................................ | 35,000 |
English syndicate. Wisconsin............................................................................ | 110,000 |
M. Eherhauser, of Halifax, inW.Va............................................................................ | 600,000 |
A Scotch syndicate in Florida............................................................................ | 500,000 |
A. Boysen, Danish consul in Milwaukee............................................................ | 50,000 |
Missouri Land Company, of Edinburgh............................................................ | 165,000 |
Total.......................................................................................................................... | 20,647,000 |
To these syndicate holdings should be added the following: The Arkansas Valley Company in Colorado, a foreign corporation, whose in-closures embrace upwards of 1,000,000 acres; the Prairie Cattle Company (Scotch) in Colorado, upwards of 1,000,000; H. H. Metcalf, River Bend, Colorado, 200,000; John W. Powers, Colorado, 200,000; McDaniel & Davis, Colorado, 75,000; Routchler & Lamb, Colorado, 40,000; J. W. Frank, Colorado, 40,000; Garnett & Langford, Colorado, 30,000; E. C. Tane, Colorado, 50,000; Leivesy Brothers, Colorado, 150,000; Vrooman & McFife, Colorado, 50,000; Beatty Brothers, Colorado, 40,000; Chick, Brown & Co., Colorado, 30,000; Reynolds Cattle Company, Colorado, 50,000; several other cases in Colorado, embracing from 10,000 to 30,000; Coe & Carter, Nebraska, fifty miles of fence; J. W. Wilson, Nebraska, forty miles; J. W. Boster, twenty miles; William Humphrey, Nevada, thirty miles; Nelson & Son, Nevada, twenty-two miles; Kennebec Ranch, Nebraska, from 20,000 to 50,000 acres.
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