Canoa Land Grant
Santa Cruz Co.
GLO Map, 1879.
In Santa Cruz
valley, above Calabasas. "In the
presidio of Tubac, granted in 1821 to Tomas and Ygnacio Ortez. Confirmed by Mexican government 1849, and
again by U. S. Surveyor General, 1880.
Title vested in Maish & Driscoll of Tucson, for 17,208 acres of the
47,000 acres claimed." Spanish name
was "San Ignacio de la Canoa."
"Name canoa, means in Spanish a canoe,
in some instances, in others a water trough.
Old timers say there was here at one time an old watering trough hewn
from a huge cottonwood tree, which gave the ranch the name."
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