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THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



ACRES. 



Byron H. Evans 700,000 



Anglo-American syndicate 750,000 



Phillips, Marshall & Co 1,300,000 



German syndicate 1,000,000 



Duke of Sutherland 425,000 



British Land Company, in Kansas 320,000 



Wm. Whaley, M. P 310,000 



Missouri Land Company, of Scotland . . . 465,000 



Robert Penant, of London 260,000 



Dundee Land Company, of Scotland .... 247,000 



Lord Dunmore 120,000 



Benjamin Neugas 100,000 



Lord Houghton , 60,000 



Lord Dunaven 60,000 



English Land Company 110,000 



Albert Peele, M. P 10,000 



Sir J. L. Kay 5>ooo 



Alex. Grant 35,o 



English syndicate, in Missouri 110,000 



M. Ellerhausen 600,000 



Scotch syndicate, in Florida 500,000 



A. Boysen, of Denmark 50,000 



Total 20,557,500 



The amount of land in the hands of these twenty- 

 seven foreign speculators is equal to a territory as large as 

 Ireland. Then we have our American syndicates and 

 speculators. The late Col. Murphy left an estate of more 

 than 4,000,000 acres. The Standard Oil Company owns 

 1,000,000 acres. Ex-Senator Dorsey has 500,000 acres in 

 New Mexico, and Diston has over 2,000,000 acres in Florida. 

 Then, there is the Glenn, Vanderbilt and Dalrymple 

 farms, and the great cattle ranches of Texas; and New 

 York, even, has not escaped the Shylocks, such as Mr. 

 Clark and Col. Church. The latter owns and collects 



