The Neal grant is mostly composed of rich bottom-lands; nearly all of it is farmed under lease; the lessees pay one-quarter to one-third of the crops as rent.

They do very well under this arrangement.
"The next grant on the north is that of Judge O.C.Pratt.

It contains twenty-eight thousand acres of bottom-land.

Butte Creek skirts it on one side for a distance of seventeen miles, and a branch of that creek runs through the centre.

Nearly six thousand acres are covered with large oak-trees.