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Reid Branches Into Dominion Wealth With Vast Newfoundland Grant
In 1893 Sir Robert G. Reid signed a Newfoundland railroad contract to build a transinsular line from St Johns to Port au Basque. The deal offered 5,000 acres per mile plus other benefits. By 1898 the arrangement made him owner of about 5,000,000 acres, along with numerous mines railways ships docks telegraph lines and timber.
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