In 1880 some 1,640 acres of the Stanford Ranch and its improvements were assessed at $76,475. The cost of the tomb, exclusive of three steel caskets and the transportation of the marble across the country, was $96,700

Real Estate and Improvements, San Francisquito Ranch, box 3, f. 12, and Westmore Morse Granite Company to Caterson and Clark, Nov. 12, 1887, box 3, f. 13, both in Stanford Papers.

The ranch in 1880 was smaller than the eventual Stanford campus of over 8,000 acres.