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The Tejon Ranch Company (), based in Lebec, California, is one of the largest private landowners in California. The federally gifted lands still held by the Catellus Corporation, a successor to the Southern Pacific Land Company, are much more extensive. It was incorporated in 1936 to organise the ownership of a large tract of land originally comprising four Mexican land grants, and began ranching in the 1840s. It now controls over in the southern San Joaquin Valley, Tehachapi Mountains, and Antelope Valley. Tejon Ranch grows almonds, pistachios, walnuts, wine grapes, and several varieties of row crops. Depending on the season, up to 12,000 head of cattle can be found grazing on the ranch. Cattle leases cover about . ==History== In 1843, the Mexican government made grants for the land that became three ranches: the Rancho Los Alamos y Agua Caliente; the Rancho El Tejon; and the Rancho Castac. A fourth tract, the Rancho La Liebre, was granted in 1846. At the urging of Edward Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, the Sebastian Indian Reservation was established in 1853 on Rancho El Tejon, and Fort Tejon was established by the U.S. Army in 1854 on Rancho Castac. These were federal projects, consisting of major developments and improvements, on what was the Mexican grantees' private land. In 1855, Edward Beale purchased Rancho La Liebre. The Army abandoned Fort Tejon in 1864. Beale bought Rancho El Tejon and Rancho de los Alamos y Agua Caliente in 1865, and Rancho Castac in 1866. With the purchase of these four Mexican land grants, Beale created the present day Tejon Ranch.〔Gerald Thompson, ''Edward F. Beale and the American West'', University of New Mexico Press, 1983.〕 Beale's son, Truxtun Beale, sold the Tejon Ranch in 1912 to a syndicate of investors headed by ''Los Angeles Times'' publisher Harry Chandler and land developer Moses Sherman. Both had extensive holdings in the San Fernando Valley. In 1917, some surviving Kitanemuk Indians lived on Tejon Ranch.〔("Kitanemuk." ) ''Four Directions Institute.'' Retrieved 28 Nov 2012.〕 In 1936, the Tejon Ranch Company became a public company, with the Chandler–Sherman group retaining a controlling interest. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tejon Ranch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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