portion of the ranch to her sister Jane's husband. She wrote to her brother in 

 1864 and provided news of the ranch: 



We are having one of the pleasantest winters I ever 

 experienced in California, grass has grown finely and 

 at the present time feed is very good. I have 18 fresh 

 cows which we are milking with a prospect of about 

 60 this season. I sold only butter for 42 1/2 cents pr. 

 Ibs. last year but fresh butter is now selling for .55 

 and 60 cts. and I am making about 75 Ibs. pr. week 



Times are very good here and money is plenty. Geo. 

 Urie is at work for me still but I shall require another 

 man soon. 



Willie [son William James] is old enough to do 

 considerablyt;] he brings in the cows night & morning 

 besides looking after my cattle which takes 

 considerable riding . . . , 58 



The Randall lands grew slightly when in 1866 Pablo Figueras sold a small 

 part of his ranch across the county road to Mrs. Randall for $100. The parcel 

 included the driveway to Figueras' ranch, on which Figueras retained a right-of- 

 way. The next year county surveyor Hiram Austin laid out a new county road 

 through the Randall Ranch, today's Highway 1. Someone, perhaps Seaver or a 

 Randall son, planted eucalyptus and cypress trees along the roadway in the 

 vicinity of the south ranch. In 1870 Mrs. Randall leased a right-of-way to 

 Samuel McCurdy and David McMullin for hauling wood from their tract of 

 timber to the south to the county road. 59 



The 1870 census listed Sarah Randall as head of the household. Her 

 oldest child, Elizabeth, did not reside at the ranch at the time the census was 

 taken, and William was 18. Also in residence was Sarah's sister Margaret 

 Seaver, one John Peach, age 40, and a Swiss dairy laborer. Sarah's brother 

 Daniel Seaver lived down the road, at the site now marked by eucalyptus trees 



58 The California Farmer. April 8, 1862, p. 1.; letter to "Brother William [Seaver]" dated January 

 25, 1864, collection of Bancroft Library. George Urie (or Eurie) lived in the northwestern corner of 

 the ranch as of 1867, when his house appears on a map of the new county road. 



59 Deeds Book E, p. 534, Leases Book A, p. 72, MCRO; "Plat . . . Bolinas and Olema Road," 

 1867. 



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