Wilson's guide to Avalon . alon, the whole Islandis their private property. The Company in question is known as The SantaCatalina Island Company, and as the chief share-holders are the three brothersBanning, it is often spoken of as The Banning Company. The history of the Island is briefly as follows: It was first discovered by Cabrillo in 1542, who called it San Salvador afterone of his two ships in which he voyaged. It was not again visited, so far as weknow, for sixty years, when Vizcaino came in 1602 and gave it the name of SantaCatalina, or St. Catherine as we should say in English, and i
Wilson's guide to Avalon . alon, the whole Islandis their private property. The Company in question is known as The SantaCatalina Island Company, and as the chief share-holders are the three brothersBanning, it is often spoken of as The Banning Company. The history of the Island is briefly as follows: It was first discovered by Cabrillo in 1542, who called it San Salvador afterone of his two ships in which he voyaged. It was not again visited, so far as weknow, for sixty years, when Vizcaino came in 1602 and gave it the name of SantaCatalina, or St. Catherine as we should say in English, and it is by this namethat it has since been known. The Island was claimed for Spain and became the property of Philip III, ofthat country, who seems to have presented it to one of his generals who nevertook the trouble to take possession. In later years it become the property ofMexico, who granted it to Don Pio Pico, the last of the Spanish Governors inCalifornia. It next came into the hands of Don Nicholas Covarrubias who. it. Timms Landing, Bay of Avalon in 1886 is reported, gave Governor Pico a horse and saddle in exchange for it. Its nextowner, so far as is known, was a lawyer of Santa Barbara named Parker; hesold it to James Lick, the founder of the Lick Observatory, from whom it wasC^ bought by Mr. G. Shatto, who in the year 1885 laid out the town of Avalon,(jij, sold a certain number of lots, and built a portion of Hotel About the middle of the last century minerals, silver, lead, etc., were dis- covered on the Island, and at one time there were mining camps of some five orsix hundred men at Johnsons Landing and Cherry Valley. Mining was alsodone at Silver Canyon, and the ore carried by burros to Avalon and conveyedto San Francisco to be smelted. Eventually an English Syndicate purchasedthe Island from Mr. Shatto for 55400, The minerals, however, were notfound to be sufficient to pay for the cost of mining with the then existing methods,and the syndicate
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