Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1911 — MAY CONFISCATE ESTATES [ARTICLE]

MAY CONFISCATE ESTATES

Mexican Government May Divide Terrazas and Creel Holdings. Monterey, Alex., June 30. A dispatch from Chihuahua says that the state and federal governments have under consideration plans for confiscating the large landed estates of Genet al Luis Terrazas and Enrique Creel end apportioning them among many of the poor people of the state. The tentative proposition now under consideration provided that Terrazas and Creel shall be reimbursed in a nominal sum for their lands. These properties aggregate more than 20,000,000 acres.