Excerpt from Notes on Texas and the Texas and Pacific Railway: Compiled From Official and Other Authentic Data Under the Congressional charter, the land subsidy to the Company is at the rate of forty Sections acres) per mile of road constructed through New Mexico and Arizona, and twenty sections through California. The exact number of acres of these lands cannot now be stated, as the location of the route may vary, slightly, from the preliminary surveys, but will not fall much short of eighteen millions of acres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.