Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-01

| little shunt and that II needed much
care and food to bring II within q
speaking acquaintance with the beauty
of her own stye, but the donee was full
Of hope and gratitude.
Now IL must be borne in mind that
by the law Of California a single pig
could not be levied upon, but where
there were two one of them could be
attached. Bright and early the next
day the constable came along and gath
cred in the fat porker and sold It to
pay Downey's debt to the terror OF the
poor woman.
IL was such touching little incidents
as we have narrated which left a man
who had been governor of California,
Notwithstanding his immense wealth,
In perhaps the most melancholy and un-
! friended isolation of any man who had
ever lived in Los Angeles, n man who
might have died with honors and troops
of friends but for his innate sordidness
and lack of heart.
Santa Monica San Vicente Rancho
The daily papers just now are full
of the details of the purchase by an
enterprising Los Angeles syndicate OF
the Santa Monica and San Vicente
ranches, on which 1t is proposed to erect
model seaside village. The tract sold
embraces about thirty thousand acres.
In the articles relating to the purchase
the statement is made that this mag
nificent property was bought some
thirty odd years ago by Senator John
p. Jones of Nevada and Col. r. 5.
Baker of Los Angeles. This statement
embodies a material error of fact. In
1874, when the original purchase was
made, o-thirds of those ranches, then
consisting of thirty-five thousand
acres, was sold by Col. Baker to Sena-
tor Jones, and the subtraction of the
townsite of Santa Monica, the gift of
site and farm t the government for
soldiers home and miscellaneous
sales have reduced the tract to the
lesser figure named.
In 1874 Senator John p. Jones had
made princely fortune by the discov-
cry of the Crown Point and Belcher
DO1dnZd DIT JOlu hill, 4SCNs Inns eo' -
the brilliant Nevadan the greatest of
the many fortunes he had made. He
was shortly interested in the Panamint
mines in Inyo county. He was obliged
to ship his material and supplies via
Wilmington and Los Angeles. In look
ing at the situation in one of his visits
here he wars very much struck by the
bay of Santa Monica. He was a man
of expansive plans and he at once con-
ceived the idea of buying a controlling
interest in the ranches named, building
a substantial wharf and a railway,
which he called the Los Angeles e. In
dependence, with the double view of
developing his Panamint mines and ul-
timately extending the road to juno
ton with the Union Pacific at Salt
Lake, thus giving Los Angeles new
transcontinental railway, a good deal
on the lines of the San Pedro, Los An
geles & Salt Lake road, which is just
about to be completed.
In those days with Senator Jones to
will was to do. Word came down to
begin the work at once. John e. jack
son. a well-known engineer was sent
up to the Cajon pass to build a tunnel
through the mountains there.
Col. Joseph u. Crawford, who had
been one of Col. Tom Scott's engineers
when the Texas Pacific railway was in
contemplation was entrusted with the
surveying and building of the road
between Los Angeles and Santa Mon
lea and to see to the erection of a
wharf. Crawford was man of splen-
did parts, thorough engineer