. Peninsular California; some account of the climate, soil productions, and present condition chiefly of the northern half of Lower California. nse area of unoc-cupied, singularly rich, and until lately very cheap landsin CaUfornia, having also a chmate remarkably health-ful and pleasant, and so wide a variety of products that?their full extent is not even yet known. Another is thatLower California is Mexican, a foreign land, and, as Ihave said before, a singularly unexplored region. Butthe main cause is found in the Mexican laws, which,until they were modified some years ago, rigorouslyforbad
. Peninsular California; some account of the climate, soil productions, and present condition chiefly of the northern half of Lower California. nse area of unoc-cupied, singularly rich, and until lately very cheap landsin CaUfornia, having also a chmate remarkably health-ful and pleasant, and so wide a variety of products that?their full extent is not even yet known. Another is thatLower California is Mexican, a foreign land, and, as Ihave said before, a singularly unexplored region. Butthe main cause is found in the Mexican laws, which,until they were modified some years ago, rigorouslyforbade Americans, and all foreigners in fact, to ownreal estate within sixty miles of the boundary line andwithin three leagues from the sea-shore. The Peninsulais narrow, and these laws worked as total an exclusion•of settlers from abroad as though a Chinese wall hadbeen built across the boundary line. Aside from , there were also others, such as the failure ofexperiments in colonization, and, even more important,the difficulty for individual purchasers, without great ex-pense of time and money, to ascertain the boundaries of. THE PENINSULA AND CALIFORNIA COMPARED. 55 occupied ranches, the soundness of titles, and the locationof public lands in a region which has never been surveyed. The International Company began its operations bymaking a complete survey of the northern part of thePeninsula. This was the first of the conditions on whichit received its giant. It thus ascertained accuratelywhich were the pubhc lands, of which by survey andpurchase it became the owner, and at the same time, ofcourse, marked the precise boundaries of such lands aswere by good titles in private ownership, most of whichlatter lands the company has since bought. Thus bythe companys labors this region was for the first timeproperly opened to possible settlement. Until this workwas done, no lines could be definitely ascertained. Having made its surveys, the International Companyis able to fi
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