The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-29

the people of Santa Barbara have Il
largest vine in the world, more than +;
foot in diameter, covering q trcllis 60 by q
feet and yielding annually from four t.
six tons of grapes.
immigration has been retarded in con
sequence of the fact that about oue-tWen
tieth of the land in the State includln!
many cf our most delightful valleys, an
owned by private parties under Mexican
grants called ranches, containing iron
one to eleven square leagues, formerly O
nominal value and now in the market a
from two to t. n dollars per acre
Many CT these charming little valleys
are admirably adapted to colonizing ant
dairying under the factory system, where
it is desirable to prolong the season tt
ten monthsby soiling with green corr
| fodder, sorghum, bccts and squashes
each of which may be made to yield from
! % to 80 tons per acre.
/ Those vast ranches often contain 40,OGC
acres can only be purchased by colonies
! or companies in consequence of the large
amount of capital required A Home
! stead Association formed in October has
located in this country On Lompoc lLom-
poke) Rancho in the fertile valley of Santa
Ynez near ro:nt Conception.
We are TO pay 100000 in ten annual
instalmerts for about Al, 600 acres of land
the valley portion of which has been care
fully surveyed into 5, 10, 20, 40, 50 acre
lots and sold to the highest bidder, mem
bers of the association having the prefer
ance, for which the Company has already
realized about 5000 and have three
fourths of the Rancho remaining unsold.
A town site was selected in the valley and
$40 acres cut into house lots one-tenth Of
which brought about $4,000 under the
hammer. With proper management it is
expected that the town lots alone will
sell for enough TO pay for the whole
Rancho so that the agricultural stockhol-
der will ultimately get his farm for his
sagacity. Twenty-Five per cent. of the
fund arising from the sale of town lots
has " resolution of the stockholders been
set apart as an endowment fund likely to
amount to 100000 which is to be used
for the maintenance of an agricultural
College and experimental Farm. An
other fund which will probably amount
TO $50, geo has been provided, for the
erection of a modern, elegant, commo-
dious, substantial, public school building
quite as good as people generally enjoy
at the cast after the labor of generations.
Thus it is seen we have arranged for
one of the most liberal, enterprising, edu-
catonal, temperance towns that can be
desired by the most refined and fastidious
where they may rear and educate their
families and where the snares and vices
of the dram shop viii never endanger the
habits and morals of their children.
Instead of paying two or three hundred
dollars an acre for land near town in val
leys already settled, the immigrant can
join with Others purchase rancho in an
unsettled valley at five or ten dollars per
acre, start Il new town in harmony with
the most advanced principles of modern
society, divide and settle the valley lands
and dispose of the remainder to the gra-
zier, and in this manner with small
capital secure social advantages that are
usually enjoyed alone by the af1luent.
Already the people of Los Angeles
have formed company and are about to
one or more of their choicest
ranches and the same thing will be re-
peated here until these charming valleys,
once occupied alone by the bovincs, be-
come the floral gardens of hundreds of
thousands who flee from their frozen
homes to dwell where they can enjoy the
vine, fig, apple, olive, almond, and the
orange in a fairy land where December
is as pie: SAINT as May.
At the last annual meeting of our
STATE Grange Committee on immigra
ton was appointed and organized for the
purpose of aiding those who desire our
assistance in selecting and securing homes
All persons writing letters of inquiry
should be careful to give their name and
post-oftice address.
O. L. ABBOTT
Santa Barbara, California.