Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1881 — The Largest Land-Owner on the continent [ARTICLE]

The Largest Land-Owner on the continent

Reno Gaaette. Col. Dan Mufnhy, of Helleck’s Station, Elks county, came to California in 1844, and may be said to have made the county pay him well for his time. He is now probably the largest private land-owner on this continent* He has 4 000,000 acres of land In one body in Mexico 60,000 in Nevada, and 23 000 in California* His Mexican grant* he bought four years ago for $200,000, or 5 cents an acre. It is sixty miles long and covers a beautiful country of hill and valley, pine timber and meadow land. It comes within twelve miles of the City of Durango, which is'to bea station on the Mexican Central. Mr Murphy raises u heat on his California land, and cattle on that in Nevada. He got 55,000 sacks last year and shies 6,000 head of cattle a year right along.