User:Nweil/sandbox/German Syndicate

Fellow San Francisco businessmen known as the "German Syndicate." By 1871, Chapman owned more than a million acres in the valley that earlier arrivals had scorned as wasteland. Chapman contributed to California's economic growth in many ways. https://www.google.com/books/edition/California_History/-CJOAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22german+syndicate%22+chapman&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+chapman&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Golden_State/UPUsIaHZTm0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=german+syndicate+california&pg=RA4-PA239&printsec=frontcover Buying public land on his own, as well as in association with fellow San Francisco businessmen known as the “ German Syndicate,” Chapman owned more than a million acres in the valley by 1871. Not content with mere wealth, Chapman https://www.google.com/books/edition/Harvest_Empire/zD8fAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22german+syndicate%22+chapman&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+chapman&printsec=frontcover Chapman, Miller and the German Syndicate would be stymied by a federal legislature which would not approve the necessary land grant subsidies to make the proposal viable, and the ambitious project would yield only one canal; the Main https://www.google.com/books/edition/San_Joaquin_Valley_Waterscapes/BbVPAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22german+syndicate%22+chapman&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+chapman&printsec=frontcover For example, Thomas Hughes purchased nine and one - half sections from Janssen of the German syndicate in 1880 for ... Church and Chapman soon fell into rancorous disagreement; and when Chapman acquired a controlling interest in the https://www.google.com/books/edition/And_the_Desert_Shall_Rejoice/O0tX4Peh7o0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22german+syndicate%22+chapman&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+chapman&printsec=frontcover A Park for Fresno n the 1860s, the German Syndicate , a group of San Franciscans of German extraction , purchased 80,000 acres of San Joaquin Valley land. It was from this group that the Central Pacific Railroad bosses bought land for https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Valley_s_Legends_Legacies/cCpk_P3d-h0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+valley&pg=PA25&printsec=frontcover The “ German Syndicate ” of which Frederick Roeding was a leader, founded the town in 1868. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Historic_California/asgo-dXCb-wC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+california&pg=PA73&printsec=frontcover n 1879 Roeding interested Jeff Donahoo to sow 320 acres of grain as an experiment, Donahoo to pay twenty - five ... The German syndicate was the agency and means that attracted settlers to the county with the possibilities of the soil ... https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Fresno_County_California/kBk1AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+roeding&pg=PA257&printsec=frontcover In 1872 this land was divided and Roeding acquired eleven sections. He made the first sale to F. T. Eisen ... The German syndicate was the agency and means that attracted settlers to the county with the possibilities of the soil under ... https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Fresno_County_Vol_1/Jh0DEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+roeding&pg=PT485&printsec=frontcover Frederick Christian Roeding THE ORGANIZER of the previously - mentioned German Syndicate was Hamburg - born Frederick Christian V Roeding, who in 1846 had come around Cape Horn to Chile , where he spent three years in the mercantile ... https://www.google.com/books/edition/Vintage_Fresno/DzISAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22german+syndicate%22+roeding&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+roeding&printsec=frontcover The Spanish name means " ash tree, ” once an abundant species here . The Fresno River appeared on maps as early as 1851. Fresno County was created in 1856 , and a German syndicate led by Frederick Roeding founded a settlement in 1868. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Westways/W9G2AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22german+syndicate%22+roeding&dq=%22german+syndicate%22+roeding&printsec=frontcover