Paper No. 1, appended to Exhibit O.
Claim of C. F. Jost and wife for improvements in San Gorgonio Reservation, Banning, San Bernardino County.
Settled on section 25, township 2 S., R. 1 E., S. B. M., San Bernardino County, in May, 1875. Bought out other white settlers. Hold railroad permission to settle on land; of date, November, 1875.
IMPROVEMENTS.
| House | $300.00 |
| Barn | 150.00 |
| Milk-house | 50.00 |
| Meat-house | 50.00 |
| Granary | 50.00 |
| Potato-house and cellar | 50.00 |
| Chicken-house | 20.00 |
| Two board flumes | 50.00 |
| Two water-dams | 20.00 |
| Honey-house | 10.00 |
| Wire fencing | 300.00 |
| Other fencing | 200.00 |
| One hundred and seventy fruit trees (mostly bearing this year) | 400.00 |
| Breaking up sod land and draining land | 200.00 |
| Amount paid to first white settler for claim (no improvements) | 250.00 |
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| $2,100.00 |
On the 1st of June I will have $50 worth of seed-potatoes in the ground, and labor, $100. It is necessary to plough the ground three times to properly prepare it for potatoes. This crop in December of the same year is worth $500 to $600 in the markets. Have about seventy stands of bees, worth, say $300, which if I am moved will be a dead loss.
Exhibit P.
THE PAUMA RANCH.
The Pauma Ranch lies on the San Luis Rey River, between the Rincon and Pala Reservations. It contains three leagues of land, largely upland and mesa, good for pasturage and dry farming. It can be irrigated by bringing water from the San Luis Rey River. There is some timber on it; also some bottom-lands along the river and along the Pauma Creek. The ranch is the property of Bishop Mora, who made to us the following proposition for its sale:
For the sum of $31,000 in gold coin of the United States of North America, I am disposed to sell to the Government of the United States, for the benefit of the Mission Indians, the ranch called "Pauma Ranch, in the County of San Diego," containing three leagues of land, more or less, reserving to myself and to my assignees, 1st, two acres of land whereon the present Indian chapel stands; 2d, 320 acres on one half-section on the south side of the public road leading to Pala, whereon the frame house stands formerly belonging to Joaquin Amat. Terms, cash on delivery of deed of sale. This offer is made with the proviso that the transaction is to be concluded on or before the 31st day of October of the present year.