William Randolph Hearst Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Little Sur River === In 1916, the Eberhard and Kron Tanning Company of Santa Cruz purchased land from the homesteaders along the [[Little Sur River]]. They harvested tanbark oak and brought the bark out on mules and crude wooden sleds known as "go-devils" to [[Notleys Landing, California|Notleys Landing]] at the mouth of [[Palo Colorado Canyon, California|Palo Colorado Canyon]], where it was loaded via cable onto ships anchored offshore. Hearst was interested in preserving the uncut, abundant redwood forest, and on November 18, 1921, he purchased the land from the tanning company for about $50,000.<ref name=emc>{{cite web|title=Conservation Plan Camp Camp Pico Blanco|url=http://www.emcplanning.com/enewsletter/2014/Conservation_Plan_Report_091813.pdf|publisher=EMC Planning Group Inc.|access-date=November 7, 2014|date=September 18, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831121004/http://emcplanning.com/enewsletter/2014/Conservation_Plan_Report_091813.pdf|archive-date=August 31, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref> On July 23, 1948, the Monterey Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America purchased the property, originally {{convert|1445|acre}}, from the [[Hearst Corporation|Hearst Sunical Land and Packing Company]] for $20,000. On September 9, 1948, Albert M. Lester of Carmel obtained a grant for the council of $20,000 from Hearst through the Hearst Foundation of New York City, offsetting the cost of the purchase.<ref name="men">{{cite news|url=http://whitestag.org/files/men_in_the_making.pdf|title=The Making of Men|last=Young|first=Alfred|date=July 1963|publisher=Monterey Bay Area Council|location=Salinas, California|access-date=August 13, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201153140/http://whitestag.org/files/men_in_the_making.pdf|archive-date=December 1, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page