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 . entuallyall are harmonized in a common language,a common home-making and fortune ac-quiring incentive, and a common pride andresponsibility in the development of theiradopted country. Yet the strangely atvariance element does not exist for all whocast their lot with this state or county, as isthe case with the colonists from the certain familiarity greets the arrival of thesubjects of King Carlos, for here also are fertilelands, b
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 . entuallyall are harmonized in a common language,a common home-making and fortune ac-quiring incentive, and a common pride andresponsibility in the development of theiradopted country. Yet the strangely atvariance element does not exist for all whocast their lot with this state or county, as isthe case with the colonists from the certain familiarity greets the arrival of thesubjects of King Carlos, for here also are fertilelands, balmy air, ^?ineyards. oranges and cloud-piercing mountains, and the close proximity ofthese doubtless aids the newcomer in the rap-id achieveinent of stable and useful citizen-ship. The better qualities of his nationalityfind expression in A. V. Bras, who owns aranch of one hundred and sixty-eight acres,and whose father. Joe Bras, also is a rancherin the Santa Maria valley. Mr. Bras was born on one of the nine islandscomprising the Azores group, eight himdredmiles west of Portugal, May 6, 1867, next to theyoungest of seven children, all of whom are. ?%^r~ ^ f J ^-^i^-^m/:).^^^^ HISTORICAL AND RECORD. 707 living, and of whom a daughter still lives inthe islands. AJr. Bras* mother died when hewas eighteen months old, and when he waseighteen years old he came to California, andfor two years worked for a farmer in the SantaMaria valley. In the early 90s he rented thefarm upon which he now lives, and of which,in 1899, Is purchased a hundred acres. A lit-tle later he added forty-five acres to his farm,and in 1901 extended his domain by twenty-three acres. The ranch had profited by theindustry and expenditure of former owners,and the present proprietor has more thandoubled its value and productiveness. Withthe exception of t\vent5-four acres under hay,the whole is devoted to beans, a crop which,while insuring reasonable profit, admits ofmore leisure for the enjoyment of
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