History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . Mr. Borchard also owns cojointly withhis four brothers a twenty-acre tract at Garden Grove, while these same brothers owna half-interest with W. T. Newland, Sr., in sixty acres on the southeast of Newlandranch in the Huntington Beach district. In 1920 the two brothers sold over 800 acresfor $335,000. a vast difference from the orignal purchase price when it was swamp land,showing what
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . Mr. Borchard also owns cojointly withhis four brothers a twenty-acre tract at Garden Grove, while these same brothers owna half-interest with W. T. Newland, Sr., in sixty acres on the southeast of Newlandranch in the Huntington Beach district. In 1920 the two brothers sold over 800 acresfor $335,000. a vast difference from the orignal purchase price when it was swamp land,showing what well directed energy and perseverance can do. Mr. Borchard and his brothers were well known as breeders of Percheron-Nor-man horses and also mules. They brought in here some of the best Percheron stallionsever imported to Orange County, and have raised draft horses weighing from 1800 to2000 pounds. They own the celebrated jack, Burr Oak, which cost $3,000. was one of the first in western Orange County to use tractors in farmingoperations, and he has owned three Holt caterpillars, two of forty-five, and one ofsixty-five horsepower. His experience on road building and drainage is extensive. He. 6l^J^ //O^^^^^^^X^?^^^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1463 has served as a director in the Newbert protection district, and he was also a directorin the Talbert drainage district. Since selling his ranches he has retired to Santa Ana,where he purchased a bungalow at 802 South Broadway where, with his wife, he makeshis home. He still owns valuable lands in Huntington Beach as well as near Newport,besides an orange grove on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard. He is a stockholder inthe First National Bank of Santa Ana and also a stockholder in the Old Colony OilCompany, operating in Wichita Falls, Texas, that has fourteen producing wells. Heowns land near Tampico, Texas, and is interested in copper and silver mines (theMidnight mine and Tidal Wave mine) in New Mexico. In 1904 Mr. Borchard w
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