Economic beginnings of the Far West: how we won the land beyond the Mississippi . San Carlos Mission on Carmel River, Mission of San Luis Rey, the Most Beautiful in California, 1841. THE COLONIZERS 177 to the responsibilities thrust so suddenly upon from restraint gave opportunity for idlenessand vice. Portilla, the commissioner of San LuisRey, reported that his people refused to work in thecommon fields, neglected even their own crops, andwandered away to the mountains with their horsesand mules, after having killed the cattle assigned tothem. The improvidence of the India
Economic beginnings of the Far West: how we won the land beyond the Mississippi . San Carlos Mission on Carmel River, Mission of San Luis Rey, the Most Beautiful in California, 1841. THE COLONIZERS 177 to the responsibilities thrust so suddenly upon from restraint gave opportunity for idlenessand vice. Portilla, the commissioner of San LuisRey, reported that his people refused to work in thecommon fields, neglected even their own crops, andwandered away to the mountains with their horsesand mules, after having killed the cattle assigned tothem. The improvidence of the Indians soon madeit necessary to forbid them to sell or mortgage landor cattle and to place them under the tutelage ofmajor-domos. In 1836, Governor Chico orderedthat every Indian found absent from his pueblowithout a license should be arrested and sentencedto labor on the public works. The determination of the Franciscans to save some-thing from the wreck of their vast possessions andthe incompetence of the Indians were in a large meas-ure responsible for the ruin of the mission industries;but the ultimate failure of the s
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