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AMERICAN 



AND GARDENS 



Santa Anita 

 Rancho proper, cut 

 and trimmed b y 

 towns and small en- 

 croachments, repre- 

 sents fifteen thou- 

 sand acres, in the 

 heart of the San 

 Gabriel Valley. 

 Four railroads — the 

 Atchison, Topeka 

 and Santa Fe, the 

 Southern Pacific, 

 Salt Lake and an 

 electric line from 

 Los Angeles — now 

 cross it, and the 

 days of Santa Anita 

 are doubtless num- 

 bered, its doom be- 

 ing to be cut up into 

 acres and dotted 

 with the splendid 

 homes of retired captains of 

 secured large tracts of it. 



The beauty of Santa Anita li 

 and in the fact that its upper 



October, 1905 



The Cypress and Pine Road Leading to the House 

 industry who have already 



es in its commanding position 

 portion, where it leaves the 



Sierra Madre, is a 

 beautiful live oak 

 grove, made up of 

 trees centuries old, 

 of large size and ex- 

 tent, which not only 

 enhance the attract- 

 iveness of the land, 

 but suggest to the 

 Calif ornian a water 

 store more valuable 

 here than gold or 

 silver. The initial 

 part of the rancho 

 i s Santa A n i t a 

 Canon, a deep glen 

 in the mountains 

 whose waters run 

 down through the 

 ranch. At an alti- 

 tude of about eight- 

 een hundred feet the 

 great oaks begin — 

 a natural park, level and gently sloping. In the center 

 of this the owner has made his home on what is virtually 

 an island in a lake, which lends beauty to the environment 

 of the whole. From a long distance the tall palms which 



The Ranch Home from the North, Showing the Gardens About the House 



