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A shift in the economic dominance of grain farming over cattle raising was marked by the passage of the California "No-Fence Law" of 1874. This repealed the Trespass Act of 1850, which had required farmers to protect their planted fields from free-ranging cattle.
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
The first sites or sitios intended for cattle and other livestock were called Estancias (stays, stations), and were given in the form of grants upon verification of the occupation or "purchase" made from the Indians. These grants didn’t grant ownership, but rather the usufruct of the land, and were revocable if the beneficiary was absent.
The Cattle Towns. A Social History of the Kansas Cattle Trading Centres (Knopf, 1968)online. Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmers' Frontier, 1865-1900 (1966) online; Gates, Paul. The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work (1934) online; Gates, Paul Wallace. “The Promotion of Agriculture by the Illinois Central Railroad, 1855-1870.”
Jan. 26—Final date to apply is March 7, 2024 To help Minnesota farmers and ranchers protect livestock from disease and other risks, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is offering a ...
The United States Department of Agriculture USDA started the Conservation Reserve Program as part of the Food Security Act of 1985. The program is designed to provide assistance and incentive for farmers to maintain sustainable farming practices and to encourage the development of natural wildlife habitat.
In 1950 the last private owner of the Grant, Alfred Collins, died. In 1951 the property was sold to the Newhall Land and Farming Company which held it until 1962 when retaining the mineral rights, Newhall sold it to Arizona-Colorado Land and Cattle Company. [5]
By the mid 1870s it was a ghost town as the mines ceased to be profitable, but farmers and ranchers occupied lands and some of the miners settled down within the grant area. The Maxwell Land Grant Company intended to develop the resources of the grant which included coal, timber, ranch and farm lands and tried to collect rent from the ...