Ingersoll's Century History Santa Monica Bay Cities (Being Book Number Two of Ingersoll's Century Series of California Local History Annals), 1908, 1908a, 1908, 1873
[p. 137] The Ballona grant of 13,919 acres was confirmed to the Machados December 8th, 1873. It was at once divided among the members of the family and tracts of it were sold. It comprised nearly two thousand acres of first-class irrigable land, two thousand acres of damp lands which needed no irrigation, and the rest was pasture land.
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[p. 157] Chapter II Laying the Foundations. 1870-1880.
Thus he, John Perceval Jones, having been made supervisor of a Comstock mine, became a resident of Nevada and when in 1872, a critical period in the history of the young state approached, he was mentioned as a candidate for the United States senate. [p. 158] The contest was a hot one, he being at first opposed by William Sharon; but the "Nevada Commoner," as Jones had come to be known, was regarded as a friend to the miners and in the end, he was elected and took his seat March, 1873.