valuation of $93,000, besides church property to the amount of $46,000, and over $8,000 distributed to the Indians. At the end of 1836, the mission estate had still about 900 cattle and 4,000 sheep, with a crop of 900 bushels, and a debt of $1,300. These are the latest statistics extant. Secularization appears to have been much more complete than at the establishments farther south, there being no traces of the community after 1836. Constant depredations of savages with ex-neophyte allies from 1837 contributed to the work of ruin; but a little settlement of gente de razon sprang into existence, containing I suppose 50 inhabitants at the end of the decade; the name became San Juan de Castro; jueces de paz took charge of local affairs; and the town was honored by being made cabecera of the district in 1839, on the organization of the prefecture.
Padre Joaquin Jimeno continued his ministry at Santa Cruz till 1833, when he was succeeded by Padre Antonio Suarez del Real, who remained throughout the decade. In 1834 the neophyte population had fallen from 320 to about 250, and apparently there was no very marked loss in live-stock or agriculture down to that time.[1] Secularization was
- ↑ Sta Cruz statistics 1831-2 (no figures for 1833-4). Decrease in pop. 320 to 284; baptisms 17; deaths 54; marriages 11; increase in large stock 3,363 to 4,095; horses, etc., 363 to 495; sheep 4,827 to 5,211. Crops 3,570 bush. in 1831; 1,710 bush, in 1832.
Statistics of 1831-40. Debt in Sept. 1831, $4,979; credits $1,877. St. Pap.,
rancho, where they killed Hipólito Mejía. They also burned J. M. Sanchez's house, and S. pursuing wounded seven of them. A few days later they attacked José Castro's rancho, and again visited Pacheco's, driving off horses and stealing all they could carry. There was much correspondence about an exped. against the savages, but no results are known. Vol. iv. 75. 1839. Juan Miguel Ánzar juez de paz, with Antonio Castro as suplente. For prefecture see annals of Monterey in this chapter, S. Juan de Castro being the head-town of the district. April, buildings being prepared for the prefecture. Castro proposes to establish a rancho nacional at S. Luis Gonzaga. Leg. Rec., MS, iii. 87-92; Vallejo, Doc., MS., vi. 491. 1840. Ánzar still juez de paz, with Manuel Larios as suplente. By Alvarado's regulation of March on missions, S. Juan was one of the establishments which the govt was to 'continue to regulate according to circumstances.' vol. iv. 60. July, organization of a patrol against Ind. between S. Juan and S. Jose. Dept. St. Pap., MS., v. 14: Id., Mont., iii. 85-90. Sept. 1st the S. Juan jurisdiction defined as extending from Natividad by Los Carneros and Pájaro to Las Llagas. Mont. Arch., MS., ix. 26-7.
