History of San Luis Obispo County, California; with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . ty landed at San Diego, and disembarked apart of the colony: the rest proceeded to Monterey,where a storm threw them on the coast. When Hijar presented his water-soaked credentials forthe surrender of the keys of power to him, he was metby a later paper. SANTA anas revolution. President Farias, the patron of Hijar, had been de-throned, and Santa Ana had vaulted into power. Gen-eral Figueroa was ordered to continue as Governor, andthe disappointed Hijar and his compani
History of San Luis Obispo County, California; with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . ty landed at San Diego, and disembarked apart of the colony: the rest proceeded to Monterey,where a storm threw them on the coast. When Hijar presented his water-soaked credentials forthe surrender of the keys of power to him, he was metby a later paper. SANTA anas revolution. President Farias, the patron of Hijar, had been de-throned, and Santa Ana had vaulted into power. Gen-eral Figueroa was ordered to continue as Governor, andthe disappointed Hijar and his companions went toswell the ranks of the rabble, hungry for the missionspoils. It is said that they were, of all who had evercome to California, the most unfitted for , where jewelry was unknown; carpenters,where the houses were made of adobe; blacksmiths,where rawhide was used instead of iron; painters, musi-cians, and artists, shoemakers and tailors, but never afarmer, composed the crowd. They were loud in theircomplaints, and finally became so importunate that themost disaffected were sent back to THE MISSIONS OF SAN LUIS OBISPO. 45 LAND GRANTS. During these years of trouble, large quantities of the landhad been alienated from the church or missions. Thecondition, in the application for a grant, was that theland was not needed for the cattle and herds of themissions. The fathers were not in a condition, with somany malcontents around them, to refuse their assent tothis condition, and so the lands were allotted to theinfluential families in vast quantities. Having lands, itwas no great affair to stock them from the herds whichfed thereon, and thus a new set of proprietors came intopower. SECULARIZATION COMPLETED. Hemmed in on all sides, abandoned by the MexicanGovernment, and plundered by the Californians, thefathers saw that ruin was inevitable, and commenced torealize on their property. Cattle were slaughtered byth£ thousand, the flesh being thrown a
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