The Purchase of Land at Loma Linda
At the time of the original purchase of Loma
Linda, there were seventy-six acres in the tract.
The hill contained twenty-three acres. About one-
half of this was occupied by the buildings, walks,
carriage drives, lawns, ornamental shrubbery, and
beautiful shade trees; and the other half was or-
chard and garden. There were cight or ten acres
of thrifty orange trees about eight years old, and
two or more acres of other fruit,—apricots, plums,
hes, apples, pears, and peaches.
The remaining fifty-three acres, a strip of fertile
valley land of varying width, and about three-tifths
of a mile in length, lay to the north of the hill and
south of the railway line. Of this, three acres was
apricot orchard, fifteen acres was in alfalfa, three
or four acres were devoted to the stables, barns,
chicken run, and vegetable gardens, and the re-
mainder was grain land.
No sooner was it decided by the conference to
wo forward with the purchase of the place, than a
plan was suggested of selling off a portion of the
acreage to help pay for the balance. By those im-
mediately connected with the institution, it was felt
that the future development of the work would
require all the land we had and more.
Regarding this, Mrs, 8. GG. White, in a letter
written from San Jose July 5, 1905, expressed her
views In very positive terms, as follows:
“T just thought to write vou a few lines to as-
sure vou that not one foot of that land is to be
sold to raise money. We will hire money at the
hank rather than that this shall be done.”
At this time a few small pieces ageregating about
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