He has a standing offer of six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars for the land, vineyards, and improvements.
"General Wilson owns several thousand acres of the original Gerke grant.
His land is altogether devoted to wheat growing, and is worth forty dollars per acre.
"A.G.

Towne's grant adjoins Gerke's on the north and west.

It now contains about twelve thousand acres; much of it is devoted to wheat growing, and is worth fifteen to forty dollars per acre, or an average all round of twenty-five dollars.
"At Tehama, on the west side of the Sacramento River, is Thome's grant.
It contains about twenty thousand acres, one-third of which is of the very best quality of wheat land, the remainder good grazing.

It is understood that this land can be bought either as a whole or in small farms.

The best of it is worth about forty-five dollars an acre; the body of it about twenty dollars.
"The next grant, on the north, is that of William G.Chard.It is nearly all cut up and owned in small farms.