Anglo-American investors arrived to buy the once profitable lands at bargain prices. Furthermore, the increasing settlement of San Luis Obispo during the late 1800s to the early 1900s increased the demand for smaller parcels and numerous land transactions. This initiated a change in the use and appearance of the landscape as it became more diversified. Smaller, intensively cultivated fields, orchards, and vineyards appeared, stock raising transitioned to sheep which were better suited to the drier conditions, and dairying became extensive with the wave of new immigrants who had experience with such practices in the Old World.