The Greatest Land Sale
The Government of the Argentine IRepublic;-are offering to European purchasers immense tracts of country, amounting to upwards of 138,000,000 acres, more than double the area of 'Great. Britain. It has been said that th-is^is ,prgtably by far the greatest -land sale eyer arranged for at one time- This land is open for selection *at about 3s 3d per acre, for settlement -ouly, not for speculation, the lands of that country having hitherto been too "much a prey to land sharks. The •offer is made to certain nationalities, -the English having 46,000,000 acres •<>ffered— an area larger than that of .^England and Wales.* Although such a ya^t extent of .country is thus thrown 'Open to buyers, it is less than half the of public land belonging to th c ; llepublic, ...
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 104, 25 February 1890, Page 4
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133The Greatest Land Sale Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 104, 25 February 1890, Page 4
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