A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . present land one year, then pur-chased a ranch one mile north of El Monte,where he farmed and engaged in the raising ofcattle. He subsequently returned to Arkansaswith the intention of purchasing a farm with the$3,000 clear profit he can-ied back with him andremain a resident of his native state; but finallyconcluded to again locate in California and ac-cordingly made the trip once more to the Pa-cific coast in 1859. After selling his firs
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . present land one year, then pur-chased a ranch one mile north of El Monte,where he farmed and engaged in the raising ofcattle. He subsequently returned to Arkansaswith the intention of purchasing a farm with the$3,000 clear profit he can-ied back with him andremain a resident of his native state; but finallyconcluded to again locate in California and ac-cordingly made the trip once more to the Pa-cific coast in 1859. After selling his first ranchhe purchased forty-eight acres on the presentsite of Savannah and remained in that locationuntil 1867, when he lost in the courts his title tothe land, as it was proven property of the earlygrants. In the same year he located on the placewhich he now owns, which was disputed landknown as the old Mission grant, taking posses-sion of one hundred acres where he at once be-gan improvement and cultivation. He set outsycamore trees which today stand as massivesentinels about the place, many of them largeand spreading, one measuring two and a half i. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 535 feet in diameter, lie engaged in the raising ofeattle, hogs, mules and , and a Httle laterpurchased one hundred and fift\ head of cattle,which he drove to Tehachapi and sold. He fol-lowed a like course on the Qiino ranch, whilehis fajnily still lived on the ranch near El 1888 he bought an interest in the San Jacintoranch, then in the Santa Rosa ranch near 1\m-ecula, where he had a herd of eiglit hundred cat-tle. He eventualh- added to his uri^inal ranchin El Monte li\ a inirdiase of ^ixt\-f()ur acresall being in unc Iracl ; Savannah. Hehas made many iniproxements on the place andbrought it to a high state of cultivation, beingable to raise alfalfa without irrigation on seventh-acres of the place. He devotes considerable timeto the raising of stock, in which enterpris
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