As part of his speculation, he owned enormous tracts of land in strategic areas.
By 1837, 35-year-old Jose Sepulvada was awarded an enormous tract and five years later was again awarded land.
A small station was built here in 1881 and it serviced the enormous tracts of farmland in the surrounding districts.
Heeding this impulse, we ventured recently into the Hudson Valley with its smattering of wineries and enormous tracts of cultivated land.
To which end, he proposed now to buy an enormous tract of land from the Cherokee, this located in Tennessee, and establish townships there.
Even seen from afar, the early 18th-century complex is overwhelming in its majesty - the two towers of a huge basilica, the enormous tract of lower buildings.
Rockecenter had seen a chance to acquire enormous tracts of prime opium land that the base usually leased out to Turkish tenants.
He left the fertile area behind and was soon lost in the midst of enormous tracts of poor soil, black as soot.
He has an enormous tract of ocean to sail across: and would risk anything to seize a well-found ship, man-of-war or not.
A spin-off from increased tourism has been the buying of often enormous tracts of land by foreigners, often as a prestige purchase rather than for agriculture.
