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LA PURÍSIMA CONCEPCION.
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of the Purísima estate in 1835 and for several years thereafter was about $60,000, divided as follows: church property $8,000, buildings $5,000, implements and furniture $2,000, produce $11,000, lands $17,000, and live-stock $17,000.[1] Domingo Carrillo, appointed


    horses and mules increase 430 to 1,270; sheep 6,070 to 6,514. Largest crop 1,842 bush. in 1834; smallest 600 bush. in 1833; average 1,260 bush., of which 830 wheat, yield 8 fold; 210 barley, 9 fold; 142 corn, 31 fold; 52 beans, 12 fold.

    Statistics of 1835-40. Feb. 18, 1835. Inventory formed by the comisionado, and Wm G. Dana and Santiago Lugo as appraisers. Chief building with 21 rooms $4,300, 12 smaller buildings $1,205, furniture (tools, etc.) $2,001, effects in store $6,255), grain and produce $4,821, church ornaments, etc., $4,944, church $400, library $655, 5 bells $1,000, 3 gardens $728, live-stock (pertaining to church?) $201; total of church property $7,928; ranchos, Sitio de Mision Vieja $373, S. de Jalama $784, Los Álamos $1,185, S. Antonio $1,418, Sta Lucía $1,080, S. Pablo $1,060, Todos Santos $7,176, Guadalupe $4,065; total of lands $17,141; live-stock $17,321. Credits $3,613, total $62,058; debt $1,218; net assets $60,840. St. Pap. Mis., MS., v. 43-4. Aug. 18th, inventory of delivery from comisionado to majordomo, excepting real estate and church property, $29,981, about the same as before, credits $1,774, debt $1,371. Id., vi. 16. 1837. Inventory of March 25th $23,653, credits $2,155, debt $2,155. Id., viii. 11. 1838. Inventory of delivery by Carrillo to Valenzuela, $27,394. Id., 2-3. Dec. 31st, receipts since June 15th $4,427, expend. 2,441. 1839. Jan, and March, receipts $2,247, $2,301, expend. $255, $190. Salaries of admin., majordomo de campo, and llavero $382. No padre is mentioned. In Feb. over 600 sheep were drowned in the floods. Pop. Feb. 28th 242. Id., 3-5. July 25th, Hartnell's inventory. Pop. 122, many of them sick, at the mission and 47 free Ind. at Álamos. 3,824 cattle, 1,532 (?) horses, 1,300 sheep, 89 mules, 1 burro, 3½ bbls wine, 3½ bbls brandy, 60 arr. tallow, 22 arr. lard, 100 hides, 99 tanned skins, 210 fan. grain, etc. Planted 60 fan. wheat and barley. Crops looking well, many wild cattle. Hartnell, Diario, MS., 23. Debt July 25th $3,696. Pico, Pap. Mis., MS., 47-51.

    Statistics of 1757-1834. Total of baptisms, 3,314, of which 1,740 Ind. adults, 1,492 Ind. children, 4 and 78 de razon; annual average 70. Marriages 1,031, 5 being gente de razon. Deaths 2,711, of which 1,790 Ind. adults, 902 Ind. children, 1 and 18 de razon; annual average 57. Largest pop. 1,520 in 1804. Sexes about equal to 1800, females in excess in 1801-7, and males later; children about ¼ of pop. Largest no. of cattle 13,000 in 1830; horses 1,454 in 1821; mules 300 in 1824; sheep 12,600 in 1820; goats 292 in 1791; all kinds 23,862 animals in 1821. Total product of wheat 9,522 bush. yield 11 fold; barley 9,306 bush., 17 fold; maize 28,255 bush., 82 fold; beans 4,818 bush., 14 fold.

  1. Events at Purísima. 1831. Fears of an Ind. revolt. Dept. Rec., MS., ix. 7. 1832-3. No record except as this mission is mentioned in secularization plans never put in operation. 1834. Domingo Carrillo appointed comisionado in Nov. Slaughter of mission cattle rather vaguely recorded. This vol., p. 346, 349-50. 1835. The place seems to have been called Pueblo de los Berros. Guerra, Doc., MS., vii. 81; Dept. St. Pap., Ben., P. y J., MS., vi. 17. Secularization effected in Feb., and on Aug. 18th the comisionado turned the estate over to his brother Joaquin Carrillo as maj. St. Pap. Miss, MS., vi. 16. Aug. 25th, Carrillo writes to gor, about the Lompoc rancho where he is going to build, and is apparently using the mission effects and Ind. rather freely for his private advantage. Dept. St. Pap., MS, iv. 48-9. The rancho was granted two years later. The building of a new church was contemplated this year, the old one being in a sad state, but nothing was