. The city and county of San Diego : illustrated and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers . y of gettingsettlers enough to make subdivision profitable. El Cajon, San Dieguito,and La Nacion were for many years the only ranchos open to settle-ment, and the farmer had to seek such spots as lay around the grants orin the small valleys in the surrounding hills. Some very valuable tracts,such as Poway, Fallbrook, and San Pasqual, never were included ingrants and were speedily taken up. Hundreds of other small tractswere scattered over the land in pieces of from one hundred
. The city and county of San Diego : illustrated and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers . y of gettingsettlers enough to make subdivision profitable. El Cajon, San Dieguito,and La Nacion were for many years the only ranchos open to settle-ment, and the farmer had to seek such spots as lay around the grants orin the small valleys in the surrounding hills. Some very valuable tracts,such as Poway, Fallbrook, and San Pasqual, never were included ingrants and were speedily taken up. Hundreds of other small tractswere scattered over the land in pieces of from one hundred to a thou-sand acres or more, and of these the smaller ones were graduallysettled, until it became nearly impossible to find forty acres of good, 12 CITY AXn COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO. arable Government land west of the desert di\ide. San Jacinto wasopened to general settlement in 1882, Escondido in 1886, Ex-Missionin 1885, Santa Maria in 1886, San Marcos in 1S87, Temecula in many of the large grants still remain closed, though it will be buta short time before all of them are upon the market in small CHAPTER II.
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