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 . California. He resides south ofBuena Park on his forty-acre ranch, which is devoted to general farming, including theraising of chili peppers and tomatoes and has the best of facilities for realizing thegreatest returns from a minimum amount of labor. There are two wells for irrigationupon the place, one with a depth of 500 feet, and the other 250 feet. When he was twenty-five years of
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 . California. He resides south ofBuena Park on his forty-acre ranch, which is devoted to general farming, including theraising of chili peppers and tomatoes and has the best of facilities for realizing thegreatest returns from a minimum amount of labor. There are two wells for irrigationupon the place, one with a depth of 500 feet, and the other 250 feet. When he was twenty-five years of age. Mr. Mitchell left his native land andwent to Canada where he worked in the stone quarries for about four years, then hemade a visit back to his home and spent the winter. He then came to the Statesand located in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was in the employ of the Cleveland StoneCompany for two years. Leaving there he next went to Iowa and worked for a firm as a quarryman until he migrated to Flagstaff, Ariz., to accept the positionof superintendent of the Arizona Sand Stone Companys quarries. This company wasmade up of Orange County, Cal., men and they had met Mr. Mitchell through a recom-. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1057 mendation from his former company in Cleveland. This company employed as manyas eighty men in their quarries and they got out the stone that was used in the con-struction of the Orange County court house, the Los Angeles County court house andthe city hall of that city. The last big job that Mr. Mitchell filled was the stone forthe present postoffice building in Los Angeles. The stone for the Spreckcls mansionin San Francisco, also came from this company, in fact they shipped stone all over thecountry where high class material was required. Mr. Mitchell became interested in Orange Country ranch land through his visitsto the members of the company by whom he was employed and he bought forty acres,in 1893, south of Buena Park and located his family o
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