subdivision of 150 acres was well taken up and a second addition of 135 

 acres was opened. This second addition was well sold out in eight 

 months and beautiful homes sprang up overlooking the blue waters 

 of the bay. 



The community has grown so rapidly that a third subdivision has 

 been added to the colony formerly known as WOODLAND PfcACE or 

 Ravenswood. This third addition has many beautiful live oak trees 

 and lies just at the end of the University street car line, which makes it 

 doubly desirable for pretty garden homes within easy reach of Palo Alto 

 and Stanford University. This beautiful tract of 130 acres borders 

 San Francisquito Creek, from which, in ages gone by. it has received its 

 rich, sediment loam soil so useful for gardens. 



In California, land must have water for irrigation in order to 

 produce maximum results. Underneath Runnymede, at a depth of 

 between thirty and sixty feet, is a gravel bed filled with water from the 

 mountains, from which a superabundance of good irrigating water is 

 pumped in streams from 250 to 500 gallons per minute. When a 

 ten-inch well is put down sixty feet the water rises to within ten to 

 fifteen feet of the surface and is easily lifted by a centrifugal pump and 

 five horsepower motor. WATER IS KING AT RUNNYMEDE. 



Starting a pump on a Runnymede Little Farm 

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