Taylor's papermill property. Jewell paid Olds $3,405 on December 2, 1864. 

 Here he built a home and dairy ranch near the northern corner of the 

 property. 216 



Mrs. Rothwell describes Jewell's house and dairy as located "on the west 

 bank of the Paper Mill Creek at a spot designated now as Jewell's." She 

 recalled the dairy ranch of Omar Jewell: 



On this new site he built himself a large two story 

 family home. Surrounding it he built a very large 

 barn for his stock and supply of hay for the Fall and 

 Winter months. Also various sheds, a dairy house and 

 pig sty where the swine could be raised for market. 

 All early pioneer dairy ranches featured this means of 

 disposal for the milk remaining after a top layer of 

 thick cream had been removed with a wet, wooden 

 paddle. 



Jewell and his wife Viana had seven children, only four of which, Alva, Viana, 

 William and Annie, lived at the Jewell Ranch in 1870. A daughter Harriet died 

 at the ranch in 1866 and her sister Olive followed in 1869. Omar Jewell's 

 father-in-law Alva Marshall lived with the family for a time, helping on the 

 dairy. 217 



By 1870 Jewell had developed his dairy ranch into one that provided him 

 a comfortable livelihood. Jewell milked 40 cows and produced 8500 pounds of 

 butter and 15 tons of hay that year, all valued at $4,500. In addition to the 

 milk cows the ranch also supported 13 horses, 35 other cattle and 40 pigs, 

 valued at $4,400. 218 



In 1872 Omar Jewell and 38 of his neighbors, including Cheda, Codoni, 

 Bloom, Olds and Parsons, petitioned the Marin County Board of Supervisors for 

 the construction of a bridge across Lagunitas Creek near Jewell's house, 

 apparently to allow the residents continued use of the old Olema road that had 

 been abandoned five years earlier but was for some a more convenient route. 



216 Rothwell, Pioneering, pp. 228-231; Munro-Fraser, Marin County, p. 465; Deeds Book E, p. 

 238, MCRO. 



217 Rothwell, Pioneering, pp. 211, 228-234; Population Schedules, 9th U. S. Census, 1870. Viana 

 Jewell's name is spelled Vienna in some accounts. 



218 Agricultural Schedules, 9th U. S. Census, 1870. 



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