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This DuQuoin Station property you know cost Mr Keyes about $3500.00 for the whole Four hundred acres. The Sales up to Jan. 1st 1857 amount to considerably over $10.000.00; from which I have received but little over $1600.00 Jan. Sales some $2.000.00 or more. I forgot to say that of the $10.000.00 two or three hundred more than half belongs to my share. Most of the Sales you know are for Notes on interest. The least estimate of the value of the unsold land would be $20.000.00 Besides fifteen or twenty acres which belongs to me alone, the part which we divided, and Mr Keyes has now sold with his new house for $6.000.00 The land being called $3.500.00. I intend to keep my part a spell and get something for it. It is in demand now, but I tell people I have laid that by for my children. I made out on a coal lease a day or two since which binds the lessee to pay Keyes & Metcalf not less than $500.00 per annum. The avails of it may amount to $3.000.00 per year.