Across the plains in '49 - History of JP Bubb

Mr. John P. Bubb had seen this wonderful country, the Santa Clara Valley, develop and grow, blossom and bloom, and had a large share in making it the gloriously delightful and fertile valley that it is to-day - one of the garden spots of the world. When he first came to the valley the main products of the soil were mustard and squirrels; the roads were trails and land was high at forty dollars an acre. Hundreds and hundreds of acres in the heart of the valley were said to be so poor that a jack rabbit would starve on it...