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From: Jim McMillen <>
Subject: Re: Land Measurements
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 01:10:16 -0500
References: <3B0F4035.80B8D45D@frazmtn.com>

1 league = 4,428 acres = 6.9+ square miles = 6.9+ sections
1 labor = 177 acres (early Texas)
1 vara = about 33-1/3 inches

"In Texas each head of a family, male or female, could claim a headright
of 4,605 acres (one league-4,428 acres of grazing land and one labor-177
acres of irrigable farm land) at a cost about four cents an acre ($184)
payable in six years, a sum later reduced by state authorities."

"One vara equals approximately thirty­three and one­third inches;
5,645.4 square varas equal one acre; 1,906.1 varas equal one mile; and
1,000,000 square varas, which is one labor."

Quotes are from _The New Handbook of Texas Online_

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/

Cheers, Jim

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