case, so close to its resolution in 1860. Given the dangers illustrated by the fate of the two Frenchmen, and that it was a remote, dangerous region, may have been the reason the case failed to be carried forward. No others were found after their deaths to lend money to the grantees or buy the land from them and carry it forward themselves in the Southern District court. It also may have been that the grant was made 4 days after the capture of Monterey, California and thus Pico's grant would have been invalid in the eyes of the U. S. government, and not worth pursuing. San Juan Ranch Following the 1860 decision, the rancho became public land and after being surveyed, it was sold at a price of 25 cents to $1.25 an acre. In 1874, Robert Flint, a Canadian, purchased the headquarters of the old Rancho San Juan, as well as acreage extending up San Juan Creek, and moved onto the San Juan Ranch. Flint grazed cattle and cultivated crops on its bottom-lands, and acquiring additional property. By the time of his death in 1892, he had acquired 58,175 acres. Flint's two sons inherited the property and in 1898 they sold it to a German immigrant, Henry Wreden. Wreden died in 1931 but his two sons operated the ranch until 1941, when the San Juan Ranch was divided equally among the six remaining Wreden heirs. Eventually the six tracts of land were sold and drifted into different ownership. Nevertheless, part of the Rancho San Juan still remains as the San Juan Ranch, 13.7 miles southeast of Shandon, California. According to the San Juan Ranch website: Part of the old San Juan Ranch is now the French Camp Vineyards. See also Ranchos of California List of ranchos of California Jack Powers Pio Linares References External links San Juan Ranch Adobe, from luna.blackgold.org, photographic print: black and white; 12.8 x 9 cm of San Juan Ranch Adobe view from field with trees in foreground and hills in background; circa 1962. California ranchos Ranchos of San Luis Obispo County, California 1846 establishments in Alta California