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A. Pens Yan B05 in Iajok.—Mr. Amos Babcock, who went 'rom Penn Yaa to engage to business in lia west when a young man (and he is still comparatively young) has boon quite successful. His home is in Illinois, hut bla buaintss tFansaeliaoa arc not confined to that Statf. He La3 taken the contract to build the State House oI Texas for one million and a half dollars, and it wifi, no doubt, bo n belter and more suitable eapitol building than the architectural monstrosity at Albany which has already cost upwards of fourteen million dollars, and at least five millions more will be required to complete it, lE the great, public calamity’* ever ia completed. Mr. Babcock was granted, by the government of Texas, ft large tract of laud in payment for the erection of the now State House, which is to cost a million and a half, and he lias had a ecological description and map of the land made, which he took to Europe for a syndicate of capitalists to io3peef. Alter satisfying themselves ofUs value, they pun baaed tbo land of«himfor ten million dollara. This leaves Mr. B. eight and a half millions to keep the wolf from the door,—DtiwzL
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Penn Yan Express
Penn Yan, New York, US
Wed, May 02, 1883
Page 4
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