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MILLIONS FOR BIG SCHOOL

Mrs. Stanford Conveys Nearly $30,000,-
000 in Property to University.
[by the Associated Press]

San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 10. -- Deeds have been executed by Mrs. Jane L. Stanford conveying property valued at from $28,-
000,000 to $30,000,000 to the Leland Stanford Jr. University.
These deeds do not affect her control of that institution during her lifetime. The total of her endowment is said to be three times greater than was ever before given by one individual to educational purposes in the history of the world.

The properties given to the university, now the richest in existence, are enumerated as follows:

Interest-bearing stocks and bonds of the highest class, conservatively appraised at $18,000,000, and most bought with the following estimated possessions of two years ago; 285,000 shares of Southern Pacific stock at $40 a share, $11,400,000; 10,000 shares of Central Pacific stock at $25 a share, $250,000; 10,000 shares of Central Pacific stock at $57 a share, $570,000; Market Street Railway stock, $1,500,000; one -fourth interest in Pacific Improvement company, $7,000,000. Total $20,720,000.

Real estate in twenty-six counties, aggregating about 100,00 acres of land, valued at $12,000,000; Vina ranch, Tehama county, 55,000 acres; enormous brandy and agricultural place; Gridley ranch, Butte county, 22,000 acres, largest wheat ranch in the world; Palo Alto ranch, Santa Clara county, 9,000 acres, famous stock farms; Stanford mansion, Nob Hill, San Francisco; Stanford residence,
Sacramento, and extensive tracts of real estate in seventeen other counties of the state.

Since the university first opened its doors