Rancho Santa Gertrudes

Romance of the Ranchos. Millions of barrels of oil, liquid gold. Beneath the surface of the earth of Southern California, lie huge lakes of precious petroleum.

If Santa Fe springs, forests of gaunt steel daricks, pencil the horizon as far as the eye can see. From those depths of cum millions of barrels of oil, millions of dollars of wealth for Southern California.

And yet, long before those daricks mushed roomed into the sky, long before that dark pool brought Santa Fe Springs to the attention of the world, long before the towns of Downey, Santa Fe Springs, Los Nietos and Rivera came into being. This was a land of romance, of achievement and drama. For this was once the

great Rancho-Santigar-Truades, the domain of the Dones, seen for the romance of the Ranchers. The title insurance and trust company of Los Angles presents the romance of the Ranchers, A weekly dramatization of the march of events in the Southland, from the romantic days of the Ranchos to the streamlined age of today.

Tonight, our wandering Vachero Frank Graham uncovers another fascinating story of events and people who helped to build Southern California. And here is our wandering Vachero Frank Graham. We're going to relive the story of the Rancho Santago Trudiz, a story of romance and achievement selected from the vast files of the title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles.

Yes, Frank, it's the business of the title Insurance and Trust Company to know the facts about land ownership. And since the story of the ownership of most of the land you and I and our listeners own and live on dates back more than a century and a half to the first grants made by the