The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-17
CALIFORNIA

Something About the Great E~s.atcs-aIr.
Gird's Famous lsanch-I,oom Towns
Galore.
SJteial Correspondence OF the intelligence.
CHINO, CAL, April OIL partly prom
ised to write for your readers something
about n California ranch. In looking
oyer q map OF Los Angeles county, I
find where now arc towns with their
surrounding communities were for
merly ranches. Tho same is true in
other counties, and they appear on the
map rs Rancho Santa Ana del Chino,
&c. This ranch is in San Bernardino
county, from which Riverside county
was recently separated, and it still con-
tains territory enough to make several
counties. The name Santa Ana del
Chino means st. Ana. the curly headed,
as neal as the word chino can be ascer-
tainod. 1t seems rather obscure.
A miner named Richard Grid, from
dividends obtained from rich copper
mines ut Tombstone, Arizona, and
from the sale OF his mines there, real
lied nearly 4 million dollars, l am told.
He then purchased the above ranch. A
brief history which l gather from an
advertising sheet l add. l suppose it is
true, though you must make allowance
in this country for many facts you get
from land agents, unlessyou know them
TO be true, bnt l do not know why this
should be misstated:
at is composed OF two Mexican
grants, respectively named Santa Ana
del Chino, and Addition to Santa
Ana del Chino, the former containing
% 1884 and the latter 1886 acres. The
Chino was granted to Antonio N. Luco,
a Mexican OF distinction and an alcalde,
March &c, 1871, and was patented by
tho United States February l6, 1889.
Tho addition was granted to Isaac Viii
liams (Senor Luco's s%ou-in-law) April !,
1S43, and was patented by tho United
States April 20, 1863. Mr.. Gird bought
the Chino" and addition" in 1851,
and has since lived there and improved
the ranch. He has recently added to
it oyer 1000 acres, making 1900 in
all. OF this hc reserves $4,000 acres for
his home, and has the remaining $4,000
acres surveyed into ten-acre tracts,
with streets fronting all.
On the homo ranch Mr.. Grid has, at
the last ''round up" which took place
recently, about $500 cattle, and brand
ed some 500 calves. "1n the rodeo this
week." says tho late Chino Valley Cham
pion, ''there wcre ten vaqucros (cow-
boys) engaged in rounding up tho cattle
to get tho cows, calves and steers by
themselves and branding the calves.
This was at times most exciting work,
bringing u tho skill with the lariat
and tho horsemanship of the vaqueros,
and tho splendid training OF the horses.
1t took one day with all these riders to
bring tho cattle in from the range and
three days to separate and brand them
They furnish meat for the house aud
ueighboring markets.
As this range is well waterod it nj.
lords pasture for these, and cattle arc
brought here from Arizona and other
places to be fattened.
There aro about 500 horses also kept
by Mr.. Grid on this range. Many OF
them are what arc known in California
rs "bronchos"; besides he keeps and
trains some thoroughbreds. though re-
Gently he has largely abandoned the
training stables. Hay is produced on
the meadows, and the grounds about
his homo resemble n small park, With
its flowers, fruit, evergreens, arches and
drives.
On tho other portion OF the ranch, a
little west OF the centre, is the town OF
Chino. a portion OF the town site is
occupied by 4 sugar factory. The
whole site contains two square miles, or
12S ten acre lots, divided into small
town lots, but on the Same lines as the
ten acre lots surrounding it. These
town lots and the tens around i. are
being sold as homes for tho people. and
thus the ranches OF California arc be.
coming homes for tho millions instead
OF being great tracts for the few. The
town OF Chino is about elk or seven
wears old and yet it has had q local
paper since about the beginning. Theae
new towns in California, instead OF
waiting till they grow old enough to.
support a paper, start q paper and
boom the town. There are many OF
these boom towns with large hotels and
no boom. It's over.
l can count four within a dozen miles
OF Chino. One at L%ordsburs is used for
q Dunkard college. One is occupied by
a single family. While the old boom