[PDF] The Truth About Lower California eBook

Author : Lower California Company
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 2019-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780365109037

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Excerpt from Lower California: Its Geography and Characteristics, With a Sketch of the Grant and Purposes of the Lower California Company Historical Summary of Lower California, by Alexander S. Taylor. See Appendix.to five thousand Indians each, who with their families were employed by the Jesuits in cultivating land or herding stock. They lived in plenty. The climate enabled them to grow not only the most valuable grains, but also sugar, figs, oranges, dates, and other tropical productions; while of cotton, they always raised sufficient to supply their wants in clothes. We search-in vain among the records of these people for accounts of those great drouths which are said to render the country incapable of culture. We find, on the contrary, that the fathers had a System of agriculture which was entirely reliable. They consulted with intelligence the characteristics of the country, and those very features which the impatient and the ignorant have reported as discouraging, were, turned to account and proven to be providential. The missions were usually planted on the hill sides so that they overlooked the valleys, and when the rains fell, contin gent water was secured by a system of enormous dams of stone, which were projected from hill to hill quite across the valleys, so as to back up the water in artificial streams till the next rain fell. These rude works were as creditable to the Jesuits of Lower California as were the aqueducts of Egypt and of Rome to the Pharoahs and the Caesars; and their ruins are to this day a rebuke to the present dero gate condition of the territory. The truth is, that Lower California, instead of being worthless or even undesirable, has simply retrogaded. Nevertheless, with all of its misfortunes, it is not today as desolate as the Roman Campagna, or as worthless as many of the once fertile districts of the Nile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Manuel Sánchez Facio
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230041162

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...him to remain at Ensenada, thus preventing him from returning to the place where, with all impunity, the rights of his client were being trampled upon.. Finally, D. Timoteo Ruiz de Esparza, the successor of Rodriguez as representative of Santa na Saenz, applied again to the Court on the 3d of September, 1887, demanding the return of the title deeds and other annexed documents which the former agent had not been able to obtain, and to his petition the following answer was sent: "To the petition presented by D. Santana Saenz, dated the 3d of this month, asking for the return of title and ratification deeds of the Rancho de Punta Banda, the following writ has been issued, which textually says: "Tonos SANTOS, September 10, 1887. "The property named 'La Punta Banda de les Saenz, ' which, having been revalidated, is returned to the tenure of the nation, has been sold by the Supreme Government, and the title to the same issued to the International Colonization Company of Mexico, and legal possession thereof granted to it, there exists no cause for the return of the title deeds and annexed docuuments presented by the petitioner, and which have been kept by this Court. " The District Judge so declared and signed. " (Signed) SUAREZ Tonnnxs, " A. Roisiuc. " (Signed.) M. CABALLERO, " A. RUBRIG. " A true copy, which I certify. Todos Santos, Sept. 10, 1887. " (Signed.) CAB.iLLEBo." Victoriano Warner and seven brothers inherited from their father, Thomas Warner, the ranch named the "Valley de la Trinidad," which he acquired and possessed agreeable to a title granted by the President of the Republic, B. Juarez. While the Commissioner, C. Maximino Barragan, was...

Author : Peter Masten Dunne
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520361547

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.

Author : Joseph Wood Krutch
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780816509874

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The author deftly weaves the materials of natural and human history into a radiant, tightly woven fabric. . . . This classic is a book for all seasonsÑto be reread and savored over the years.ÑLatin America in Books "His superb writing style and the timelessness of his subject (the natural world and the interaction of human beings with it) make this every bit as enjoyable today as it was in the 1960's."ÑBooks of the Southwest "Well-written and fascinating."ÑJournal of Arid Environments

Author : Arthur Walbridge North
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
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ISBN : 9781498140492

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.