Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-09-18

TnE LANPoE RANCHO N SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
A BIG LAND OPERATION.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9th, 1874

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9th, 1874.
Information was received to-day at the
Interior Department Of the sale of the great
Lampue Rancho, in Southern California.
This l. one OF the rich and extensive old
Spanish grants owned by the famous land.
holder. wool-grower, and farmer, Col. W.
W. HOLSTER, of Santa Barbara county, who
Is dividing up his estates to induce immigra-
ton into the State The Lampoe tract con-
sists of 1880 acres, located near Point
Conception, about forty miles northwest
from the town of Santa Barbara. 1t fronts
ten miles on the Pacific Ocean. and is the
key to an extensive country lying back of
ii towards the Santa Inez Mountains. The
purchasers were Gen. j II. Shields. from
Cincinnati. Ohio, and company of Cali
iornla capitalists and farmers from Santa
Barbara, Santa Cruz. Il0llister. and San
Francisco. The price was half :milion
dollars. The new purchasers are subdiyid-
ing the estate, and re-selling in small tracts
TO cOlunlsts from California, and other
States, and from Europe. Immigration
to Lampoe has already begun. About fifty
fifty and sixty other families in Ohio, Indi-
ana, New York. and Tennessee are waiting
10 move and settle on these lands, which are
claimed by both seller and purchasers to be |
among the very best in all Southern Califor- |
ma. The claim l. sustained by the report |
OF an officer of the Interior Department.
who was deputized by the Secretary to 90 |
to California and investigate the lines of the |
Lampoe Rancho. This officers report classes |
this and adjoining ranches as first in |
quality.
The negotiations which ended in the pur-
chase were carried on through the Califor-
MA Immigration Union. an organization
Tor the promotion of emigration to that
State The agent of the Union, William
ii. Martin, Esq. who conducted the bust
neI ,S >aYs IN private letter to gentleman
IT Washington: - 1t is the prettiest tract
OF land | ever saw. Gen Shields and
about twenty or thirty of US are going there
at once, and viii camp out in tents until we
get our houses AZ
Col Hoi!i>ter and partners or
valuable Ranches adjoining otb
lying on three sides off, -,
eating $4,000 ac-- Ldm an
officer 81 = with an ocean ON
ior .urty miles. The COVER liner
owe referred To expresses the opir
after personal investigation, ina son
of these adjoining tracts are even bettt
than Lampoc. All these lands ar J.; to |
sold Negotiations looking TO tfsat end al
now progressing between the own ers an
different individuals and organlIa tons
settlers. Southern California is rec Giving
: large and steady stream of emigratio n. Mo-
than II 600 of this class of people h ave gor
7 into the State since April. last.
The Lampoe colonists will eng age
grain and wool growing and the culture
semi-tropical fruits. Tss climate is slight
n cooler than that of Santa Barbara. III
= range of the Thermometer shows u mean
/ 60 degrees-thc extremes being about
n degrees in January and IS degrees in Jul
e There is practically no winter there.
A town is to be laid OF between the San
e Inez river and Miguetito creek.
e An incipient colony of Vermont Peep
. are looking toward Point Conception, wi
Ii view to settling upon some of Colonel He
ID listers lands Among the projectors Al
is Hon. G. Barber and R. B. Westover,
re Castleton; Prof. T. J. Hyde, Hon. Edw
he Edgerton and other solid men Of thar Stat
Yours, y,