Indians lived at the ranchos as well as at the mission proper, and were somewhat unmanageable at times, on account of their intimate relations with the Tulareño gentiles; yet though the padre complained of poverty and mismanagement, the absolute ruin of the establishment does not appear to have begun until after 1840.
Padre Pedro Cabot remained at San Antonio until 1834, and Padre Jesus María Vasquez del Mercado, one of the newly arrived Zacatecanos, succeeding Cabot in that year, remained till 1839, to be succeeded in his turn by Padre José de Jesus María Gutierrez. Down to 1834 the neophyte population was reduced by deaths from 681 to 567; and five years later Visitador Hartnell found 270 living at the mission and its adjoining ranchos, though as the number was reported as 520 in the same year, it is likely that in 1840, there were 500 Indians connected with the establishment, half of the number being scattered at some distance.[1] Live-stock decreased about
- ↑ S. Antonio statistics 1831-4. Decrease in pop. 681 to 567. Baptisms 51; 17 in 1832, 9 in 1834. Deaths 184; 58 in 1833, 38 in 1832. Loss in large stock 5,000 to 2,540, horses and mules 1,000 to 540; gain in sheep 10,000 to 11,000. Largest crop 2,718 bush. in 1832; smallest 2,109 bush. in 1833; average 2,448 bush., of which 1,527 wheat, yield 10 fold; 555 barley, 15 fold; 168 maize, 50 fold; 36 beans, 19 fold; 159 miscel. grains, 38 fold.
Statistics of 1835-40. Sept. 10, 1835. Inventory of produce, implements, furniture, and goods, $7,883. St. Pap., Miss., MS., vi. 16. April 27, 1836 (1835?). Inventory; credits (?) $18,642, buildings $11,197, vineyards, implements, furniture, and goods in store $22,671, ranchos (S. Carpóforo?, S. Bartolomé or Pleito, Tule, S. Lucas, S. Benito, S. Bernabé, S. Miguelito, Ojitos, S. Timoteo, and S. Lorenzo) $32,834, live-stock $1,000; total $93,122, besides church property $7,617; but there should be deducted $16,886 for property distributed among the Ind. St. Pap., Miss., v. 51-3. May 3, 1836, a minute and descriptive inventory of church property, total value $7,617. Pico, Pap. Mis., MS., 17-25. Inventories of Sept. 7, 1836, deducting debts, $35,703; Dec. 30, 1836, $35,355; Sept. 1, 1837, $37,639, and without date $35,399 (apparently none of these including lands or buildings). St. Pap. Miss., MS., viii. 27-29. General accounts, not intelligible, Sept. 10, 1835, on delivery to Ramirez, debit $15,587; credit $15,098, balance $489. Dec. 31, 1836, Andrade to Ábrego, dr. $35,703; cr. $38,892; gain $3,188. Sept. 1, 1837, Ábrego to Villavicencio, dr. $36,121; cr. $41,477; gain $5,356. Id., 38-9. 1839. Feb., salaries, $500 to padre, $500 to admin., and $180 each to two majordomos. Id., 37. Pop. in Jan. acc. to Pico's report 520, including 53 absent. Id., 36. Pico's accounts of Oct. 1838 to April 1840 show an excess of expenditures over receipts of $500. Id., 33-7. Aug. 6, 1839. Hartnell's census and inventory; pop. 270; 1,462 cattle, 306 horses, 2,612 sheep, 15 mules, 9 swine; 130 hides, 240 fan. grain, 114 arr. tallow, 10 arr. lard, 100
