The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-12-29
Land Holding of the English in
America.
Coming NatiOn.)

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Apropos of the present discussion of
how much property English subjects
own in America, 1 am enabled to give
you some authentic facts and figures.
In truth the holdings of the queens
loyal Britons is surprising, and it is no
exaggeratiOn to state that if the land
owned by them were divided into three
acre plots, there would be enough to
go around among the residents of the
United Kingdom. The aggregate, based
on absolute facts, is known to be at
least 100000 acres.
Naturally, the names to which these
holdings are nearly all accredited will
be found in Burk's peerage. Here are
some of them, the majority being the
property of syndicates:
The largest of all is probably the
Texas possession of the syndicate which
includes in it's membership the Duke of
Beaufort and Rutland, Earl Cadogan
and the Baroness Burdett- Coutts. The
total amount of land held by this asso-
citation is 100000 acres. 1t is, as is
the case with most of the Texas land,
largely composed of what is called
range country-that is, land that is
better adapted for cattle raising than
anything else. On some Of it it is possi-
BILE to raise certain crops, but the ma
jority is covered with buffalo grass,
which never grows large enough to cut
for hay, but is superior to all other va
rieties Of grass for making cattle fat
and at the same time hardy. On such
a ranch, or chain of ranches, it would be
possible to Craze enough cattle to supply
the beef market of the United States
for three months. From this a compar-
ative idea of the vastness of the hold
ings may be gained.
Cattle and wheat are what the English
investor seems to think money should
be made on in the United States. That is
why the syndicate represented by the
English capitalist, Vincint Scully, owns
100000 acres of land in Nebraska,
Iowa and Illinois. This property is sit
uated in the heart Of the wheat growing
section. To those familiar with the crop
characteristics of the different states,
it will be easy to understand that in
Nebraska wheat is king and in Illinois
the popular agricultural tendency is to
corn rather than wheat. In Iowa there
is a combination of the two for the
Iowa agriculturalist believes very
strongly in diversified farming
What, then, could be better COM
bination than these Englishmen hold?
This year, too, when that millennium of
the farmer the day of dollar wheat is full
upon us. with demand for grain that is
almost unprecedented, is it any wonder
that the American, who, less thought
full than his English brother in the
matter of investment and the wisdom
of waiting, groans when he observes his
lost opportunities? The amount of
money which the Scully syndicate will
bring over here from America this fall
will be of a proportion in keeping with
the acres they hold.
Two American girls who now wear by
virtue of their marriage to English
peers two Of the highest of British titles
the Duchess of Marlborough and Lady
Randolph Churchill-are interested with
Sir Edward Reed in syndicate that
owns 100000 acres, situated in Color
ado, Wyoming and New Mexico. This
is purely a cattle country and on it
range thousands of head of live stock.