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Texas Plans Resurvey of 3 Million Acre Capitol Grant
The state agreed to pay $1000 for field notes and plot books of the 3,000,000 acre land grant given for the Austin Capitol. Arch C Wiley surveyed in 1881, and Governor Colquitt and Attorney General Looney arranged the transfer. Houston to El Paso area lands, Norton and Rangers accompanied surveys as crews prepared a new resurvey beginning soon. The Capitol at Austin is a granite building begun in 1882 and completed in 1886, with 600 by 287 feet footprint and 315 feet height, built from Burnet County granite.
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State of Texas
C. D. Bullock
Waco
Capitol Syndicate
Texas State Capital Building
Iuon
Arch C. Wiley
Bullock
Waco News
Texas
N. B. Williams
West
John W. Farwell
Chicago
Austin
England
Earl of Warwick
America
Connecticut
Dallam
Hartley
Oldham
Deaf Smith
Parker, Castro, Bailey
Lamb, Cochram
Hockley
Caii River
Abilene
Tascosa
Tom Plunkett
W. S. Plunkett
Judge Park
Plunket
Robert
el Paso
Helen P. Robertson
Temple
Richard Harrison
Cone Johnson
Tyler
Norton
Mullens
Colonel Norton
National Capitol
Washington
Burnet County
el Paso Times