8/30/2023 0 Comments Strawberry alarm clock mercedReally much larger than the barley crop, was planted before theĪssessment was taken, and the crop was grown, harvested, and Spring barley was used for horse feed the wheat crop, which was One familiar with the conditions might guessīetter than this, and he would be supported by facts which do notĪppear in the assessment roll. Much barley on the roll as there is wheat, that more barley than For example, one mightĬonclude, from the fact that there is half a dozen or more times as There was more chance for the inclusion of some less valuable plains.Īnd we must guess with some caution. Practically all bottom land, and where a tract ran to greater size (for the East Side) dollar and a quarter. Le Grand are assessed at a dollar instead of the almost universal Montgomery's 640Īcres on Bear Creek and E. On the part of the assessor to assess the larger land tracts a little There may perhaps have been an unconscious tendency We have not also the assessment on Pacheco's San Luis Ranch toĬheck by. Grande y Los Carrisalitos Rancho assessment as a standard of valu-Ītion for the West Side lands, they may not have been. However, if we may take the fifty cents an acre of the Pancoche It is probable that a portion at least of these were on the West Side. There are a number of Spanish names, a few assessed for land, and Pacheco's name, and across it out of Merced County. Of the level San Joaquin Valley lands on to the pass which now bears Mexican grants, which still exists, stretching from the western edge Pacheeo was one of the grantees of the San Luis Ranch, one of the We find Francisco Pacheco named in the index, and Juan Perez We know, owned by Hildreth & Hildreth, and still later acquiredįrom them, along with their "H & H" brand, by Miller & Lux and Los Carrisalitos, some 22,220 acres, assessed we find Hildreth &ĭunphey assessed for a lot of stock, though for no land, but the in-įerence is probable thatk they were on the Santa Rita Ranch, later, On the West Side we find the Rancho Panoche de San Juan y Was, as we should have expected, probably largely an overflow from Robla), the conclusion is strongly forced upon us that the population The hills to, say, not more than half-way to the San Joaquin (exceptįor the Cocanour and Bludworth places in the vicinity of the present Index shows, and the other along the creeks from Bear and BurnsĬreeks south to the Chowchilla, and stretching out from the edge of To about the Ingalsbe place, according to the pages that are extant,Īnd including Neill, Cox, W. Groups, one stretching down the Merced River from Merced Falls Sider that this population was for the most part located in two main Us upon the location of the population at that time. Perhaps the most striking thing of all is the light it gives Things, and some of them are important in the early history of theĬounty. The assessment roll of 1857 tells us a number of interesting The names which were on the twenty-eight missing pages of theĪssessment roll of 1857, which may be gathered from the index, are Westcott, page 119," the next page after this. The reason for crossing out the assessment. Occurs on two or three lines out of place, and may have furnished Wagon, $200 1 reaper, $50 money on hand, $102 accounts, $75 West by same, $100 improvement, $100 4 work horses, $240 3Īcerican stock cattle, $60 27 Spanish do., $405 7 hogs, $21 1 Land bounded north by public lands, south by same, east by same, The last assessment on that page has beenĬrossed out it is to Varmew Westcott, and is as follows: 80 acres This is the first assessment on page 118, the last page of theīook now in existence. Kitchen furniture, $500 farming utensils, $30 total, $8368. 4, township 5 south, range 14 east, valued at $400 improve. Identified with Its Growth and DevelopmentĤ east Qr. The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Full text of " A history of Merced County, California : with a biographical review of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present"
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