Sarah Lockwood Winchester to Samuel Leib, 1905-1906

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San Jose, Calif.

November 11th. 1905

HON. S.F. LEIB, SAN JOSE,

My dear Sir;

My usual way of executing a deed, has been to go to a Notary in Santa Clara. This is more convenient for me than coming in to San Jose. When you have the deed for conveying the Mountain View property to the Interurban road ready, if you will mail it to me, I will execute it in my customary manner and return it to you. As to the "jog" in the "hundred acre field", - if my recollection serves me correctly, the field was fenced in that way when I purchased it and was always designated as "the hundred acre field". I could not have stated with any accuracy , the acreage of th "jog". My impression was that the field contained a hundred acres exclusive of this , but not being positive about it all I preferred to offer the field as a whole ^that is "as it is fenced"^, instead of selling it by the acre. If I had decided to sell it by the acre , I probably ahould have asked a little more than three hundred dollars per acre. Yours Truly S. L. Winchester

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San Jose, Calif. November 4th. 1905

HON. S. F. LEIB,

San Jose:

My dear Sir;

After a few days of roving about from place to place which has caused delay in receiving mail, I now hasten to reply to your letter of the thirtieth of October, relating to the extension of Moorpark Avenue. For several reasons, I would much prefer to have no public road on the southern boundary of my place; but if it is inevitable, I sincerely hope we may be able to prevent any of my land being taken.

Several years ago we laid out a road along my southern line, intending to have an entrance at the extreme southeastern limit. The hedge which was planted at each side of this road has now about three years growth and has attained a good height. I had the road graded, a very solid road bed made and it is now all finished except the top dressing of fine gravel on about sixty feet of it. If my land is taken all the labor and expense of making a considerable part of this road would be lost. I should have to plant another hedge and it would take years for it to reach a satisfactory height. There is also a flume (which comes under the county road) from my irrigating engine which is located on the opposite side of the road, discharging into the extreme southeast corner of my place. If a strip should be taken from my land

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It would make a very bad complication of this feature.

Taking it altogether, I think I would be entitled to heavy damages, besides a good price for the land taken, if the plan of taking the twenty-five feet strip of my land should be insisted upon.

The matter is causing me great perplexity. If Moorpark Avenue should be extended, even without taking any of my land, it would make considerable difference with my plans and I should be obliged to change them to some extent.

Yours truly, S. L. Winchester

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San Jose, Calif.

November 16th. 1905.

HON. S.F. LEIB,

SAN JOSE,

DEAR SIR;

I enclose my cheque for five hundred dollars ($500.00) in payment of your services in connection wtih the Railroad invasion of my propery at Mountain View. I would have been willing to pay ten times the amount if it could have been prevented, but I know that it was impossible to do that. Please accept also, my sincere thanks for managing the matter with so little of my personal attention. This is particularly appreciated, as during all of the time that matter had been pending, I have had an unusual degree of perplexity and annoyance with other matters which have required all the thought and attention that my limitations would allow.

There is one point in which the settlement of the Mountain View matter differs from what I expected. I had supposed that I would give the Railroad Co. merely right of way and that I would still own the strip, and if for any reason the road should not be built, it could not be taken for any other purpose. I did not

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expect to sell it. This of course applied to the right of way outside of the hundred acre field. However I thought you knew best about this and as the deed was made in that way, decided to sign it without discussing this point.

I am just about leaving for Menlo Park and Burlingame and as there might be some delay in receiving the agreement for the fence, think it would be best for you to approve it and have it recorded without submitting it to me.

Yours truly,

S.L. Winchester

P.S. The cheque of O. A. Hale for thirty thousand seven hundred + five dollars ($30,705.00) which you sent me yesterday - was duly received.

S.L. Winchester

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