It was built to help farm more then two million acres of land?
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Hoover Dam? Strictly a guess
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Plantations very in size. They are really just large farms.
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to put it into some sort of perspective, one square mile of land is 640 acres.   my grandmother, having similar ideas, in 1919 bought 20 acres and right away put half of it up for sale at exactly what she paid for the whole thing.  it took a few years but someone finally did buy the other half.  even with 10 acres it never felt cramped.  it sounds like you may need a bit more so at 50 acres you might be about on the mark.  i've never been shy about overbuying so if you can get it at what you think is a good price, go for the 100 and if you decide later it's too much, you can sell part but then you may find it's just right.  if you buy too small, you will be probably kicking yourself later.
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not really a farm, it would be about 5.9 acres.\n\nacre (ac or A) \na unit of area used for measuring real estate in English-speaking countries. "Acre," an Old English word meaning a field, is derived from the Latin ager and Greek agros, also meaning a field. The acre was originally defined as the area that could be plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen. It was in use in England at least as early as the eighth century, and by the end of the ninth century it was generally understood to be the area of a field one furlong (40 rods or 10 chains) long by 4 rods (or 1 chain) wide. Thus an acre is 10 square chains, 160 square rods, 43 560 square feet or 4840 square yards. There are exactly 640 acres in a square mile. In metric countries the unit corresponding to the acre is the hectare, which is 10,000 square meters (the area of a square 100 meters on each side). One acre is equal to 0.404 687 3 hectare. Among traditional European land area units, the acre is typical in being defined as a day's work but unusual in not being visualized as the area of a square. Similar units include the French journal, north German and Dutch morgen, south German and Swiss juchart, Austrian joch, and Czech jitro.
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It is impossible to answer this question as then they would be known facts and they don't qualify as a correct answer.\n\nBut if you are asking about not well known facts how about that he was big into real estate. He had tens of thousands of acres of land and had a voracious appetite for acquiring more.
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not positive but it had to be some what over 700 million at least.
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That is a mighty big canal you are talking about building. That is way to much man power and way to difficult to accomplish. And what good would it do?
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It was more than 2,500 years ago.
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because they have plenty of farm animals?
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depending on the area and the size of the property it could be anywere from 200,000 to 700,000
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insted of generating energy it would produce APPLES!!!!!!\nHEHEHEHEHE
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.5 billion\n$15million\n3¢/acre.\nHeck... I'll take two.
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cheap labor, \nneed for workers on plantations, \nit was very profitable.
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Coz they have a lot of cows?
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14,658,000 square miles or 9.4 billion acres.
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As of the 2000 census the population was 2.8 million.
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Any particular land owners you're thinking about?  In general the main advantage of owning land is that you can build stuff on it.