San Francisco water . ch infested with grizzlybears, particularly a little farther south,back of what is now known as Palo morning we discovered that a pair ofour oxen had disappeared — evidentlystrayed; and being unable to find any traceof them in the neighborhood of our camp,we concluded that they had strayed southalong the base of the mountains, into what isnow Portola Valley. There was a rich growthof pasture-grass there, and it would be anatural place for strayed animals to knew that there were many grizzly bearsin that neighborhood, and realizing the dan-ger the animal
San Francisco water . ch infested with grizzlybears, particularly a little farther south,back of what is now known as Palo morning we discovered that a pair ofour oxen had disappeared — evidentlystrayed; and being unable to find any traceof them in the neighborhood of our camp,we concluded that they had strayed southalong the base of the mountains, into what isnow Portola Valley. There was a rich growthof pasture-grass there, and it would be anatural place for strayed animals to knew that there were many grizzly bearsin that neighborhood, and realizing the dan-ger the animals ran in being unprotected inthat district, it was determined to go at onceand seek them. I started out from the camp in the earlymorning, with a young Mexican boy, whowas to accompany me. As we would have tosearch over a considerable area, we did nottake horses, but traveled along the well-beaten trail on foot. It was agreed betweenthe boy and myself that we should meet at acertain rock which was plainly to be seen. The Mountain Home Ranch was the property of E. W. Burr, a Searsville lumberman. It is now the Folger estate inWoodside. This picture is from Moore and De Pues Illustrated History of San Mateo County, published in 1878 10 SAN FRANCISCO WATER October, 1925 and well known. The meeting was to be atsunset. We also agreed that if either of usfound the oxen, he was to drive them to thecamp without waiting for the other, and theremaining one going to the rock, as agreed,at sunset, and the other not arriving, it wouldbe known that the oxen had been found anddriven to camp. I hunted about all day without success,and finally arrived at the rock about sun-down, to await the young boy, and remainedthere for some time after the sun had set,but the boy did not appear. I naturally con-cluded that he had found the oxen anddriven them to camp, as we had agreed. So,in the pleasant evening air I started alongthe trail towards camp, and I remember par-ticularly, as I walked along whe
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