User:Cynthisa/sandbox/Rancho Jurupa and early silk farms

Bynon (pages 14-17) seems to indicate that part of the early marketing for the Southern California Colony sent back east and throughout the U.S. to drum up land sales was based in part on the suitability of the area for "growing silk." "Mr. Provost" is noted in several places in the early history. However, Bynon claims "six-tenths" of "the ranch" (cited previously as being 1.5 leagues or 6,750 acres) was bought FROM Louis Rubidoux in 1869. But in the current article, with GOOD cites, have Rubidoux as getting the "US Patent" on the WHOLE 6,750 acres as of 1876.

California Silk Center Association
An entity known as the California Silk Center Association, formed by "Messrs. Provost, Cover, Pine, Stewart, Linden and others," purchased an "undivided six-tenths of his ranch" from Luis Rubidoux on November 19, 1869. The fate of this nascent silk farm came to an abrupt end with the death of Mr. Provost who was "the only one of the Association who understood the silk growing business." With no one available to take his place, the enterprise was "abandoned and the land placed on the market for sale."