2,000,000
English Syndicate, in Mississippi 1,800,000
Marquis of Tweedale 1,750,000
Philips, Marshal & Co., London 1,300,000
German Syndicate 1,100,000
Anglo-American Syndicate, Mr. Rogers President, London 750,000
Byron H. Evans, of London, in Mississippi 700,000
Duke of Sutherland 425,000
British Land Company, in Kansas 320,000
William Whallay, M.P., Peterboro, England 310,000
Missouri Land Company, Edinburgh, Scotland 300,000
Robert Tennant, of London 230,000
Dundee Land Company, Scotland 247,000
Lord Dunmore 120,000
Benjamin Newgas, 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 Kansas 35,000
English Syndicate (represented by Closs Bros.) Wisconsin 110,000
M. Ellerhauser, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in West Virginia 600,000
A Scotch Syndicate, in Florida 500,000
A. Boysen, Danish Consul, in Milwaukee 50,000
Missouri Land Company, of Edinburgh, Scotland 165,000

Total 20,747,000

Commenting upon these startling figures, the _New York (Daily) World_,
one of the best informed papers of the time says:

The land grabber is not a fungus of nineteenth century
growth. He first came among English-speaking peoples over
eight centuries ago. Wherever his foot has found a
standing-place pauperism and its sequence, crime, have
followed. In the British Isles he is known as an Acreocrat.
Since he has extended his operations from his native country
to our