000.00

8 Shares of silver mine at Tuxpan,
Mexico 10,000,000.00

9 The house at Tuxpan and its grounds,
Mexico 15,000.00

10 The pleasure home and grounds in
Florida (New Orleans) in the city of
Coney Island 500,000.00

11 The house which covers all the Esquare
Plaza (no number because it is all
alone). It is an immense palace,
with a park and gardens, and waters
forming cascades and labyrinths,
facing Central Park 12,000,000.00

12 The block of houses on Fifth and Sixth
Avenues, facing on this same Central
Park, which, as all these grounds belong
to him, he had put up. They
are a hundred houses, that is called
here a block 30,000,000.00

13 He is the owner of two railroads and
owns shares of others in Pennsylvania
and Canada 40,000,000.00

14 A line of steam and sail boats--Atlantic.
The Pennsylvania and the Tessier
and other names 100,000,000.00

15 A dock and a quay of eight hundred
meters on the Brooklyn River for
his ships 130,000,000.00

16 Several values and debts owed him and
which at his death had not been collected $40,000.00
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$390,555,000.00

Which is in francs 1,952,775,000
Plus 5 per cent 976,388
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Total in francs 1,953,751,388

"Do you blame us?" asks Madame Valoie, as I listen as politely as
possible to this Arabian Nights' dream of riches.

The letters continue: The General is surrounded by enemies, of which the
worst are French, and he is forced continually to change his residence
in order to escape their machinations. But all this takes money. How can
he go to Tuxpan or to the city of Coney Island? "You cannot know nor
imagine the expense which I have had to discover that which I have
discovered. I cannot live here like a miser, for the part I represent
demands much of me. Every moment I change my residence, and that costs
money." He adds a little touch of detail. "I must a