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Photograph shows Cone Monument in Red Bluff Cemetery. Cone Ranch was formerly the Dy Grant. Ran from Salt Creek on north to Toomes Grant in the south. Cone extended his holdings from 16,000 acres to close to 100,000 by the mid 1800s extending range land to the east and west. The purchase and establishment of the mill at Sesma (across from Tehama) to which he extended the flume. This property had formerly been part of the Toomes Grant. In April 1881 Cone purchased the holdings of Henry Gekke at Vina, which he in turn sold to Leland Stanford (Stanford Winery).
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