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21_92 Rancho Chico in other parts of the state, as at Ukiah. - The Rancho Chico is a great barony altho not like it was in the days of General Bidwell. A great deal of the ranch has been sold but it is still 15 miles long and 3 or 4 miles wide, containing some 17,00 or 18,000 acres. Colonel Royce is in charge of it. He has had a varied career. Some one in th Bidwell office asked me what Sequoia meant. I think it was Reeves, the cashier for I had been explaining to him what a splendid thing it would have been had John Bidwell made known in |
21_93 June 1, 1910 print his discovery in 1841 of the Sequoia gigantea trees at Calaveras. So I told Reeves that Sequoia was in honor of George Guess, the Cherokee Indian indicating some facts of his life. To my suprise I discovered after a few moments that Colonel Royce had been for 10 years U. S. Indian agent and later had made out a volume for the Am. [American] Bur. [Bureau] Ethnology on Indian lands their history, cessions, etc. It is always disconcerting to indicate you knowledge before an expert who really knows what you possess only in a superficial way. |
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