AGREEMENT This will confirm the Agreement by and among all the undersigned that the Schedule 13D filed on or about this date with respect to the beneficial ownership of the undersigned of shares of common stock, par value $.30 per share, of Milwaukee...

                                                                       EXHIBIT A
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                                    AGREEMENT

               This will confirm the Agreement by and among all the undersigned
that the Schedule 13D filed on or about this date with respect to the beneficial
ownership of the undersigned of shares of common stock, par value $.30 per
share, of Milwaukee Land Company is being filed, and all further amendments
thereto will be filed, jointly on behalf of each of the persons and entities
named below for all purposes specified in such Schedule 13D, as so amended. This
Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be
deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same
instrument.

Dated: July 6, 1993

                                    XXXX XXXX

                                    By:   /s/Xxxx Xxxx
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                                            Xxxx Xxxx
                                            Attorney-in-fact

                                    ODYSSEY PARTNERS, L.P.

                                    By:   /s/Xxxx Xxxx
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                                            Xxxx Xxxx

                                         /s/Xxxx Xxxxxx
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                                            Xxxx Xxxxxx

                                    THE ZILKHA FOUNDATION, INC.

                                    By:   /s/Xxxx Xxxxxx
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                                            Xxxx Xxxxxx
                                       

                                    ZILKHA & SONS, INC.

                                    By:  /s/Xxxx Xxxxxx
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                                            Xxxx Xxxxxx
                                        

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