History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . ct of California, and in1857 or 1858 the claim was confirmed by that court. The matter was againappealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the decision ofthe lower court was reversed in 1861. The grant contained about fortythousand acres. Its title was faulty, in that the grant made by Michelto-rena had never been confirmed by the Departmental Assembly at the cityof Mexico. Those were matters, however, that there was as much uncer-tainty about as where lig
History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . ct of California, and in1857 or 1858 the claim was confirmed by that court. The matter was againappealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the decision ofthe lower court was reversed in 1861. The grant contained about fortythousand acres. Its title was faulty, in that the grant made by Michelto-rena had never been confirmed by the Departmental Assembly at the cityof Mexico. Those were matters, however, that there was as much uncer-tainty about as where lightning would strike in a western thundei-storm,and what would condemn one claim seemed to be the strength of another. The Albion Grant.—This grant contained eleven leagues, and was madeto Captain Guilermo Richardson in 1844 by Micheltorena. It was neverconfirmed. It extended from Big river south to the Garcia river, and it willthus be seen that quite a strip of land lying between the Mai Paso and theGarcia river was covered by both As neither of them were everconfirmed, no trouble ever grew out of that 214 HISTORY OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. GENERAL HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT OFMENDOCINO COUNTY. The history of any county of California follows so sequentially, and is soclosely allied with the history of the Pacific coast in general, and this Statein particular, that to commence the chronicling of events from the beginningnaturally and properly takes us back to the first discoveries in this portionof the globe, made by the bold old voyageurs who left the known world andthe charted seas behind them and sailed out into an unknown, untraversed,unmaped and trackless main, whose mysteries were as great to them asthose of that undiscovered bourne from whence no traveler hath yetreturned. Of all of those old Argonauts, it is not now known that any ofthem ever touched upon the soil of Mendocino county, nor is it at all proba-ble that they did, as there aie no harbors a
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