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San Jose, Calif. November 27th. 1905
Hon. S. F. Leib, San Jose,
My dear sir:
As you considered that the amount of work done in making the survey at Mountain View justified the charge for it, I am sending to-day, cheque to Hermann Brothers for one hundred dollars in payment of the bill.
Yours truly,
S. L. Winchester.
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[Letterhead] J. G. McMillan, County Surveyor. I. L. Ryder, Ass't County Surveyor.
COUNTY SURVEYOR'S OFFICE, SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Hall of Records. San Jose, Cal. Residence 353 South Eleventh Street.
Publisher Official County and the Latest City Maps
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San Jose, Cal., March 29th, 1906.
Mrs. S.L. Winchester, S.F. Leib, Atty. San Jose, Cal.
Dear Sir:--
Mrs. S.L. Winchester et.al.
In the matter of the petition of Francis Smith et.al. for a public road, being the extention of Moorpark Avenue Westerly.
The Viewers regularly viewed said road on the 27th. day of December 1905; They have set April the 5th. 1906 to examine further into said matter, particularly as to the amount of damages that should be awarded to the nonconsenting landowners. The Viewers will meet at the Westerly terminus of Moorpark Avenue at 10 o'clock A.M. April 5th. 1906 and proceed with said work.
Submitted
....................................... [not signed] County Surveyor. For the Viewers.
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[Letterhead] J. G. McMillan, County Surveyor. I. L. Ryder, Ass't County Surveyor.
COUNTY SURVEYOR'S OFFICE, SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Hall of Records. San Jose, Cal. Residence 353 South Eleventh Street.
Publisher Official County and the Latest City Maps
[Document Text]
San Jose, Cal., March 29th, 1906.
Mrs. S.L. Winchester,
San Jose, Cal.
To Mrs. S.L. Winchester et.al.
In the matter of the petition of Francis Smith et.al. for a public road, being the extention of Moorpark Avenue Westerly.
The Viewers regularly viewed said road on the 27th. day of December 1905; They have set April the 5th. 1906 to examine further into said matter, particularly as to the amount of damages that should be awarded to the nonconsenting landowners. The Viewers will meet at the Westerly terminus of Moorpark Avenue at 10 o'clock A.M. April 5th. 1906 and proceed with said work.
Submitted
J. G. McMillan County Surveyor For the Viewers.
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San Jose, January 12th. 1906.
HON. S. F. LEIB,
SAN JOSE,
My dear Sir;
I intended to send you by Mrs. Marriott, the maps which I am now sending by the bearer of this note.
The land of which I am negotiating purchase (50 acres) adjoins the thirty five acres which I purchased from the Corbett Estate, originally a part of the "San Mateo Rancho" and of which I sent you the abstract. That part of the Easton property immediately adjoinmy tract was also originally a part of the "San Mateo Rancho" and is included in the 50 acres under consideration. The 50 acres does not take in all of the portion of the S. M. Rancho thus purchased, but only as much as lies between the railroad tracks and the Bay.
Ansel I. Easton purchased from Howard in May 1860 46 42/100 acres, being part of the S.M. Rancho, (see pages 82 to 90 of the S.M. abstract) and later about 18 acres more was purchased by the Easton family from Wm. Ralston, and it is this eighteen acres which is referred to by the Searcher of Records when he says he finds no title in Ralston. XX I think my abstract of the "San Mateo Rancho" shows that Mr. Ralston had at least as good a title as the U.S. Patent gave to Howard. It seems to me that this 18 acres was included in the portion of the Howard property allotted to Poett and which he sold to Burlingame and Burlingame sold to Ralston (See pages 67 to 77 of the abstract of the "San Mateo Rancho").
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My purchase does not include any marsh and I made he stipulation that if any marshy spots could be found in the fifty acres my contract should not be binding, and I was assured that there are no such spots.
The balance of the fifty acres is all a part of the " Buri-Buri Rancho", of which I was given an abbreviated abstract and which I sent you.
Yours truly, S. L.
