Naturally, the tenants of these lands feel an interest in the price which the railroad will put upon its holdings, and it is rumoured they expect the land will be offered to them for two dollars and fifty cents per acre.

It needs no seventh daughter of a seventh daughter to foresee that these gentlemen will be disappointed." "Rot!" vociferated Annixter to himself as he finished.

He rolled the paper into a wad and hurled it from him.
"Rot! rot! What does Genslinger know about it?
I stand on my agreement with the P.and S.W .-- from two fifty to five dollars an acre--there it is in black and white.

The road IS obligated.

And my improvements! I made the land valuable by improving it, irrigating it, draining it, and cultivating it.