88 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



which she maintains numerous schools and kinder- 

 gartens, where the children of the poor may be trained 

 for the battle of life. 



The lands owned by Governor Stanford include the 

 Palo Alto Farm of 11,000 acres, devoted to the trotting- 

 and running-horse departments, besides the beautiful 

 park and residence grounds, vineyards, etc.; the Yma 

 Ranch, on the Sacramento Eiver, of 55,000 acres, sev- 

 eral thousand of which are in vineyards where the 

 finest varieties of wine grapes, such as the Zinfandel 

 and Charbonneau, are abundantly grown; and the 

 Gridley Eanch, in Butte County, of 17,000 acres, 

 principally devoted to wheat growing. All these lands 

 are given to the Leland Stanford Junior University 

 in the grant founding and endowing that noble institu- 

 tion, which is now being built at Palo Alto,' and which 

 will cost millions to complete. 



The Palo Alto farm lies partly in Santa Clara and 

 partly in San Mateo Counties, in the beautiful Santa 

 Clara Yalley, a spot almost unrivaled among all the 

 gardens of the earth. This fruitful valley, where the 

 air is tempered by the breezes from San Francisco Bay, 

 is at least the equal of any favored region of the Pacific 

 Coast in its natural advantages; and wealth and enter- 

 prise have done perhaps more for it than for any other 

 spot w4iere Pacific breezes blow. Part of the Palo 

 Alto farm adjoins the little town of Menlo Park, on 

 the Southern Pacific Bail way, an hour's ride from San 

 Francisco. The farm lies nearly all between an arm 

 of San Francisco Bay on the east, and the Southern 

 Pacific Railway on the west, and is chiefly level, the 

 western limits running into the foothills of the Coast 



