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According to Harlow, this is "[A] copy of what may have been the original manuscript of a new map of city lands reported by the Trustees to have been 'now on file' on April 22, 1870."
Area: from the Cañada de la Soledad to the Rancho de la Nación, and from the Pacific Ocean to the lands of the ex-Mission, including the undivided Peninsula or Islands.
Features identified: Cañada de la Soledad [Sorrento Canyon]; La Jolla; Cañada de San Buenaventura [Rose Canyon]; Cañada de las Llegua [San Clemente Canyon]; False Bay; Tecolote Valley; Cañada de Osuna [Murray Canyon]; San Diego River; Mission Valley; Lagoon [Pozo]; Stone mound, old corner [eastern boundary]; Old Town; Middle Town; New Town; City Park Reservation; Choyas Valley; Rancho de la Nacion; Peninsula of San Diego; Light house; Coal mines; Ballast Point; La Playa.
Pueblo lots are numbered according to Poole's 1856 plan, with a tier of lots, A to G, inserted south of Mission Valley to compensate for Poole's error in shortening the distance between Old Town and New San Diego a half-mile. Pueblo lots also surveyed north of Poole's plan (1225-1340, 1352-1353, 1355-1362) and along the eastern boundary (1341-1349, with 1185 omitted); and a few were deleted in what proved to be the Rancho de la Nación (1169-1172). Old Town, New Town, La Playa, and Middle Town not divided into town lots presumably because Pascoe had agreed to make separate plans of the first three and had produced a map of Middle Town in 1869 in compliance with a court order (Maps No. 52-53).
Roads shown, without destination. The reservation between Middle Town and New Town follows Pascoe's Middle Town survey of 1869 (Map No. 52), showing a distance of about a half-mile between. Horton's Addition and later subdivisions not shown. Topography by hachures. North indicated. The San Diego River flows into San Diego Bay. Source: San Diego Historical Society Research Archives (M352, photo-copy). Additional notes. On January 14, 1870, the Trustees accepted a pro- posal from Pascoe to make a survey and "one large map of all the city lands" within the eastern and southern boundaries, as laid out by Hays in 1858, and the line of ordinary high tide (according to a ruling of the U.S. Surveyor General). It was to be on a scale of 60 chains to the inch, show the lines of old surveys, the location, size, and shape of unsurveyed portions, and the topography of the principal ranges and valleys, all to be subdivided according to the 160-acre scheme introduced by Poole in 1856. He was also to make separate plans of Old Town, "New Town (Grays)," and the Playa, the work to be completed within about three months for $1,450. It was reported on April 22, 1870, that "The official map of the city is now on file in the office of the Board, and all descriptions must be according to it, and the said map will show what lands now be- long to the city"; with a decision on August 11 that "the map made by James Pascoe, in the month of May, 1870, be declared the official map of the pueblo lands... and that all deeds... shall be made in accordance with said map, excepting therefrom city lots at Old Town & La Playa,” to be covered by separate maps of these areas.'
Pascoe, having also been authorized by the Trustees on February 22, 1869, to resurvey the "mesa" between San Diego and Mission Valley and compare his findings with Poole's map of 1856, determined that his predecessor had shortened the area north-to-south about a half-mile. This space he restored by inserting pueblo lots A to G below Mission Valley and lengthening the "reservation" between Middle Town and New San Diego as shown on his pueblo map of 1870.'
Although Pascoe's proposal to the Trustees specified a map on a scale of 60 chains to an inch, the surviving copies are on half that scale.
Pascoe may have been working upon his pueblo map before proposing it to the Trustees, for on a map of "Old San Diego," copied by F. H. Whaley, May 28, 1877 (Map No. 18d) it is noted that the information was taken from "Pascoe's map of the pueblo lands, December 1869 for Aguine [Aguirre] heirs," apparently an earlier manuscript state.
A similar manuscript copy is identified as Exhibit No. 2, in action 35818, the Superior Court of California for the county of San Diego, Eugene Scharr, et al, vs. The city of San Diego, et al, dated November 12, 1921 (San Diego Historical Society Research Archives, M954, blueline print; reproduced in SCOTT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY 88).
Another manuscript copy has the same title, style of lettering, and content of the printed edition (Map No. 68), including numbered blocks in the four subdivisions, and in place of the names of the Trustees is a key to color coding identifying ownership, including "Lands still held by Trustees," and "portions" of the lands of the Texas and Pacific Railway deeded to the California Southern Rail Road in January 1881. The Cañada de la Soledad, inset in the printed edition to reduce the map's size, is here reattached at the top. It may be a manuscript copy of the printed map, with additional information. (No copy found except as reproduced in POURADE, GLORY YEARS 68.)
La Jolla
Schaelchlin (page 28):
In February 1869, the Sizer brothers, Daniel and Samuel, purchased Pueblo Lot 1259 and 1260, contiguous. The land was bounded on the north by Marine Street, on the west by La Jolla Boulevard, on the south by Palomar Avenue and on the east by Fay Avenue. In May 1869, the Sizer brothers had:
... a very promising place. They have good fresh water at a depth of fourteen feet, and plenty of it. Their vineyard of 5000 vines is doing well. The vegetable garden is fine. We expect to eat watermelons at this place on the 4th of July.
In September 1870, Daniel Sizer fell to his death while digging another well. He was at the bottom when "he felt the effect of foul air" and signalled to be raised. Part way up, he lost consciousness and fell. His brother, Samuel, left the land, ran for City Assessor, lost and shortly thereafter left San Diego. Their lands soon came under the railroad ownership.
Schaelchlin (page 29-30):
In July 1869, John Butler took possession of Pueblo Lot 1288 and in May 1870, Frederick Fredley bought Pueblo Lot 1286 and Patrick Mullaly, Pueblo Lot 1285. Before the deed registration, Butler and Fredley were developing the land:
. . . There is a beautiful valley leading back from the beach that is being settled by Mr. Butler and Mr. Fredley, each having eighty acres of land. The soil is very rich, and the vegetation rank. The mustard is from ten to fifteen ft. high. Mr. B. is sinking a well. He is down forty-five feet, but no water yet. Mr. F. has just commenced with his well.
The "beautiful valley" is the Hidden Valley-Ardath Road area, reaching down to the ocean near the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club.
During 1870, Charles B. Richards gained control of the Butler- Fredley-Mullaly property along with Pueblo Lots 1281, 1289, thirty acres in and along the north side of Pueblo Lot 1265, forty acres in and along the west side of 1280, forty acres in and along the west side of Pueblo Lot 1297, including the tidelands and totaling almost 436 acres.
Interestingly, the present map lists M. Caruthers as the owner of 2185, not Patrick Mullaly.
