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125. Large Estates. The following is a list of the 

 landed estates of more than 100,000 acres each, (some of them 

 are scattered tracts) in California, viz : Miller & Lux, 228,000 

 acres ; the Philadelphia and California Petroleum Company, 

 160.000 ; Mary E. Beale, 173,000 ; Charles McLaughlin, 141,- 

 000; I. Friedlander, 125,000; Los Angeles Land Company, 

 101,000. 



In San Diego County, John Forster has 88,000 acres ; and 

 Miguel Pedroreno, 47,000 ; in Los Angeles, the L. A. Land 

 Company, 101,000; Irvine, Flint & Co., 77,000; Pioche & 

 Bayerque, 69,000 ; E. de Celis, 56,000 ; Beale & Baker, 53,000 ; 

 James Lick, 51,000. In San Bernardino, the San Jacinto Tin 

 Mining Company, 48,000 ; Alfred Robinson, trustee, 42,000. 

 In Santa Barbara, the Philadelphia and Petroleum Land Com- 

 pany, 131,000; Dibblee & Hollister, 97,000; A. P. Moore, 

 63,000 ; Santa Cruz Island Company, 53,000 ; H. & W. Pierce, 

 53,000 ; J. W. Moore, 48,000 ; L. T. Barton, 47,000 ; E. Con- 

 way, 42,000 ; Hollister & Cooper, 41 ,000. In San Luis Obispo, 

 P. W. Murphy, 54,000 ; and F. Steele, 44,000. In Monterey, 

 the estate of Arques, 71,000 ; J. D. Carr, 47,000 ; and Miller 

 & Lux, 41,000. ,Jn Alameda, Charles McLaughlin, 60,000. 

 In San Joaquin, the Tide Land Reclamation Company, 77,000 ; 

 Charles McLaughlin, 54,000. In Kern, Mary E. Beale, 173,- 

 000 ; Chapman, Jansen & Roebing, 75,000 ; A. Weill, 48,000 ; 

 and J. H. Redington , 45,000, In Fresno, the San Joaquin Val- 

 ley Land Association, 79,000 ; I. Friedlander, 62,000 ; E. 

 Applegarth, 49,000; J. W. Pedree, 47,000 ; W. C. Ralston, 

 44,000 ; and E. St. John & Co., 42,000. In Merced, Miller & 

 Lux, 166,000 ; C. Paige, 60,000; and J. W.Mitchell, 42, 000. 

 In Mariposa, the Mariposa Land and Mining Company, 44,000. 

 In Sacramento, Lloyd Tevis, 43,000 ; in Colusa, the California 

 and Oregon Railroad Company, 61,000 ; and in Mendocino, 

 Throckmorton & McKinstry, 83,000. The number of these 

 estates over 40,000 acres is forty-four, in the State, so far as 

 reported ; the number between 30,000 and 40,000 acres is 



