The petition was denied. The next year Jewell sold a 75-foot right-of-way to 

 the North Pacific Railroad Company, which constructed narrow gauge tracks 

 along the east side of the property below Jewell's home. A flagstop was 

 established soon after and named Jewell's. 219 



Omar Jewell died in 1875 after a long illness; his daughter Emma passed 

 away shortly after. Both were buried at Olema Cemetery. Jewell's oldest son 

 Alva returned from his Mendocino County sheep ranch to operate the dairy 

 with his brother William. To supplement their business activities the brothers 

 purchased a livery stable in San Rafael; William ran the livery business while 

 Alva and his wife stayed and operated the dairy ranch. Alva Jewell died in 

 June of 1888, and his mother Viana passed away in 1890. 220 



The Jewell family leased the ranch to Battista Ottolini for many years 

 beginning in 1883. The leases were renewed every three years until at least 

 1892; Ottolini paid between $1,200 and $1,350 per year rent for the dairy ranch. 

 Ottolini and his wife Maria started a family while at the ranch; they relocated 

 to Duncan's Mills before 1895. Ottolini family eventually settled in Nicasio and 

 San Geronimo. By 1925 Samuel M. Augustine, who had been the notary public 

 on the leases to Ottolini, owned the Jewell Ranch, but little has been found of 

 his tenure there. The railroad, at the time part of the Northwestern Pacific, 

 ceased operations on the Point Reyes line and abandoned its right-of-way in 

 1933. Augustine sold the ranch on August 19, 1933 to the operators of Roberts 

 Dairy, a processing plant in San Rafael owned by Ruth Roberts Lundgren, her 

 son James Lundgren and Sayles Turney. Roberts Dairy eventually owned a 

 number of West Marin ranches, including the New Albion and K Ranches on 

 Point Reyes. The partners built a Grade A dairy at the hill location and also 

 constructed a bridge across Lagunitas Creek, which washed out shortly after its 

 construction and had to be rebuilt. 221 



Two sites of settlement can be found on the Jewell Ranch: the known 

 dairy site on the hill, and what appears to be an older site next to the railroad 

 right-of-way at the northeastern corner of the property. It is possible that the 



219 Marin County Journal. February 6, 1872. 



220 Rothwell, Pioneering, pp. 235-238; Marin Journal. June 14, 1888 and October 16, 1890. 



221 Rothwell, Pioneering, p. 238; Leases Book C, pp. 112 and 487, Official Records Book 266, p. 

 165, MCRO; interview with Anita Ottolini Flanders; "Map of Marin County," 1925; interview with 

 Don Mclsaac. 



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