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CHARMING 3 BEDROOM home with garage
and bonus room. Nice views of Volcan Mountian,
lovely mature oaks, located on a quiet street in
Kentwood.
$315,000
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site on the edge of town within walking distance
of everything! Built in 2007, 2361 sq ft, gourmet
kitchen, two car garage, beautiful southern views
off the balcony. Don t miss this one.
Priced below the cost to build at
I S549,000
Pleasant home with lots of light, open floor plan,
hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, warm wood
stove and skylights. Two bedrooms, two baths and
inside laundry room. Deck and balcony with views
of the wooded lot and neighboring hills.
A great buy at $199,000
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Charming and immaculate country home. Two
bedroom, plus bonus room. Hardwood floors,
open= beam wood ceilings, claw foot tub, tons of
upgrades. Usable half acre plus with large trees and
areas for gardens. Ready for you to move right in.
$286,000
CHARMING AND IMMACULATE - Mountain
Home in the trees above Lake Cuyamaca with a
view of the lake. Cozy Living room has fireplace
with pellet insert, 2 bed rooms, deck and an extra
room downstairs. Cedar wood inside and out.
PRICED AT $279,000
ESPECIALLY NICE! 7.41 Acres: 3-Bedroom home
with a massive rock fireplace & wrap-around deck
meadows, a couple hundred apple trees (room for
more), great views, mature trees, & seasonal pond.
PRICED RIGHT AT $475,000
SIXTEEN ACRE JULIAN RANCH - MEADOWS, TREES, VIEWS
This ranch is located in a very desirable area of Julian - with easy access off a paved road with choice
16 acres - some quite level and some sloping, with fencing and cross-fencing. The farm house has been
upgraded and remodeled. There is a separate guest cottage, a barn/workshop, outbuildings, mature
oaks, cedars, and four large English Walnu¢ trees in the front yard. This ranch has been in the same
family for many years.
PRICED AT $540,000
NEW QUALITY CUSTOM HOME on 1.97
wooded acres in Pine Hills. Much attention to
details. 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, dream kitchen, with
large center isle and Granite counter tops, large
front yard, double attached garage and views!
was .-jO00"Reduced To $640,000
COZY CABIN IN THE TREES in Pine Hills on a
nicely wooded lot. Owner will consider carrying
for a qualified buyer with substantial down pay-
ment. The adjoining lot also available for sale.
PRICED AT $149,000
CHOICE PARCEL IN JULIAN ESTATES - 4.24
Acres at the end of the road. Many large oaks and
pines, views, underground power and phone,
paved roads, gated community.
PRICED AT $174,000
AVAILABLE LAND
' One Acre parcel in Shelter Valley
reasonably priced at $22,000
• Desert Views from this One Acre,
$22,000
• Kentwood - .62 Acre big views.S49,000
• Nice Site - .62 Acre, has septic layout,
views, trees. Priced at $75,000
• Cuyamaca: 4.32 Acres, great views, has
septic layout $125,000
• Harrison Park: 5 Acres, well, electricity.
septic in, views. $165,000
• Pine Hills: 1.28 Acres, septic layout,
trees, views. $159,000
• Julian Estates: 4.7 Acres, has a well and
fantastic views. $179,000
Juli Zerbe, Broker Associate
email: julinjoe@gmail.com
Rose Steadman, Broker/Owner
Melo-de Savage, Realtor Associate
email: melo-de@sbcglobal.net
Kirby Winn, Realtor Associate
email: kirbylwinn@gmail.com
Tattered Tidbits No. 17
Justice For Justus?
by Albert Simonson
There are lots of foreclosures
lately, but this has happened
before. The San Diego Herald
of June 19, 1858 had a bunch,
including the "Rancho of Santa
Ysabel."
The notice is jumbled in with
an ad for London Club House
Gin for "persons traveling in
these days of rapid transit from
East to West, and particularly
those crossing the Isthmus, who
are constantly changing their
water and climate." That meant
fever-ridden Panama, where
multitudes died on the mule trail
in the Gold Rush, before the
railroad and canal.
This gin was the perfect
antidote, the ad assured, against
bad water and even against rotgut
like the "noxious poison sold as
aromatic Schiedam Schnapps."
Truth in Advertising was not yet
a law.
Sands' Sarsaparilla was
unequalled for "impure state
of the blood." Around here, a
mssion padre had found "zarza
parilla" long before in 1821,
growing by the water hole near
Ballena, just past the turnoff to
"Old Julian Highway." It might
stil be there, for all I know.
Professor Holloway's Ointment
was unsurpassed for your myriad
ailments including venereal
sores, spasms, ringworm,
scabies, piles, chilblains and
fistulas.
The foreclosure notice gave
the boundaries of the ranch as
Puerto del Carrisito (crossing of
highways 76 and 79), the Volcan,
Tecomaco (Mesa Grande) and
Ballenas (whale mountain valley,
where the sarsaparilla grew).
The couple being foreclosed
was army Major Justus McKinstry
with his wife and cousin, Susan.
The major was a "by-the-book"
West Point officer, but also a
"humanist," freeing hundreds
of slaves who had become
contraband, in a legal sense, by
traffickers in. St. Louis. He and
Susan had five children to shuttle
from one Army post to another.
The major was an avid yacht
racer, having entered a 12-ton
schooner in the first regatta of
San Diego's Pacific Pioneer
Yacht Club in 1852. He acted as
M.C. for the evening ball, his crew
following his speech making with
soldierly song. Coincidentally,
the belle of that ball was a merry
"widow who later married Volcan
ranchero Cockney Bill Williams.
She was Ramona Machado de
Curley, "the center of attraction
to a gay coterie of officers."
Joining in festivities was the
Boundary Commission, charged
with surveying the internationa
boundary. The Machado adobe
is still in Old Town, well worth
your visit, one of few original
structures.
According to the Herald, there
were other beauties, " who
with love-lit eyes, bounding
feet and palpitating hearts"
captivated the gallants. There
was "Senorita Ninfa Ybarra, the
tournure and grace of whose
figure and movements .could
only be equaled by the beauty
of her face and gentility of her
carriage." This young temptress's
Spanish name meant "nymph,"
and I can almost see her now.
The ballroom scene was so florid
and gilded and elegant that the
beguiled reporter felt compelled
to sprinkle his report with French
expressions like the "je ne sais
quoi" of loveliness. There was
"a dazzling flood of light from a
chandalier, showing off the dark
flashing eyes, ruby lips, and
pearly teeth of the beauteous
senoritas." It's almost like we are
there with them, breathing their
fragrance, transfixed by those
sultry sweet eyes, by this grace
dissolved in place.
Our history has a tight weave, like
the fabric of a watertight Indian
basket. Major Heintzelman,
Fort Yuma's commander, once
passed a rainy February night
during the Indian campaigns
in his army tent on our Santa
Ysabel Preserve. With him in
the crowded clammy tent were
Major McKinstry and Cockney
Bill. Those two quibbled
over whether Bill's place was
enc[oaching on the Santa Ysabel
rancho or not. Being a grump,
Heintzelman curmudgeonly
chose to disbelieve both men,
trusting neither.
It was not a pleasant campout.
Bill and McKinstry slept in
the tent on a bearskin with
Heintzelmann, and then Judge
Hayes dropped by but had to
sleep out in the rain under an
India rubber blanket belonging to
his host, who wrote in his diary,
"We were crowded and slept
uncomfortable." I like to imagine
this scene under those gigantic
white-trunked sycamores,or at
the nearby spring and rancheria
site of Geenat. Oddly, it was
McKinstry, not the judge, who
was sick with a cold afterwards,
as the rain turned to hail and the
hail turned to mud.
In the end, the land argument
didn't matter. Cockney Bill moved
to a broader, better meadow at
Viejas while McKinstry lost the
ranch and became a general and
later a Wall Street stockbroker of
some renown. The vagaries of
life can heal wounds wondrously.
The plaintiff in the foreclosure
was Pennsylvania tobacconist
and militiaman John Mclntyre,
who lived at the mission already
in the 1850 census. He became
a surveyor and prepared some of
the first land preemptions in this
area, including in Volcan rancho.
In later years, homesteads
became more common than
preemptions, especially for
settlers with little money, but the
basic idea was likewise to grant
government land to productive
settlers.
McKinstry had made a down
payment of $2,000 in gold, with
a promissory note to pay $1,000
each year for 6 years. The ranch
had 18,000 acres, 200 beef
cattle, 5 milk cows, a bull, 25
mares, a stallion, and ramshackle
remains of the old adobe mission
quadrangle, all purloined by legal
means from mission Indians.
It was legal because a congress
at the end of the Napoleonic
Wars had said so, four decades
earlier. The results were ugly,
but it happened in a quite pretty
elliptical marble salon in the
Spanish city of Cadiz. You can
pop into that salon in the walkable
old seaport the Phoenicians
called Gades. back when the
Roman forum was still a fetid
swamp. Great museum, too, or
beach if you prefer.
McKinstry was later accused of
corruption as quartermaster by
his political enemies, unjustly,
some said. He was the unwitting
and unwilling source of the
term "pork barrel, " a form of
corruption now favored by many
in Congress as "earmarks."
President Lincoln, with
statesmanlike subtlety, had
let it be known that army pork
procurement contracts should go
to a fellow Republican Illinoisan
who was a fine fellow.
Pork barrel politics is older than
you may have thought. Lincoln
may not be as venerable as you
thought.
You can google the major.
There's plenty known about him.
At Amazon.com, you can get
"Rogue: A Biography of Civil
War General Justus McKinstry."
Cockney Bill and Mclntyre
did politics, too. A few months
after the foreclosure, each
won majorities for Justice of
the Peace; Bill in Cuyamaca
Precinct and Mclntyre in Santa
Ysabel Precinct. Important duties
included keeping order in cattle
rodeos like the ones just below
Farmer and Wynola Roads on
the preserve, in the years of open
range before fencing. Bill's brand
was the letter B. Let me know if
you find one of his irons.
John Mclntyre finally settled
down on 160 acres that we all
drive past frequently. Historical
society sleuth Ed Huffman
tracked him to his 1882
homestead, at the Old Julian
Highway turnoff in Ballena valley,
the land on your left as you drive
to Ramona.
Maybe he moved there for the
sarsaparilla. Maybe he had
"impure state of the blood." Who
can know? Who can say? Was
McKinstry really a rogue or was it
a bum rap.
Practical politics consists in
gnoring facts.
Henry Adams
