Santa Barbara and Montecito, past and present . barely 300 Indians, andthese with the greatest difficulty. Mr. Hart-nell, the official visitor of Missions, reportedthat the Missions were almost entirely in ruins,and could never be brought back to their formerstate. Under a proclamation dated October 28,1845, regarding the sale of nine Missions andthe leasing of the others, including Santa Bar-bara, the property of the latter was leased toNicholas A. Den and Daniel Hill for an annualrental of $1,200, the lease covering all the build-ings of the Mission excepting the church andcloisters, and thi
Santa Barbara and Montecito, past and present . barely 300 Indians, andthese with the greatest difficulty. Mr. Hart-nell, the official visitor of Missions, reportedthat the Missions were almost entirely in ruins,and could never be brought back to their formerstate. Under a proclamation dated October 28,1845, regarding the sale of nine Missions andthe leasing of the others, including Santa Bar-bara, the property of the latter was leased toNicholas A. Den and Daniel Hill for an annualrental of $1,200, the lease covering all the build-ings of the Mission excepting the church andcloisters, and this small sum was all that wasavailable to support the Bishop, Padres, and suchof the Indians as were left. The inventoriedvaluation was $20,843, and it comprised over3,000 head of stock, the San Jose vineyard north AND MONTECITO ot Goleta (what is now known as the SistersRanch), the San Marcos Ranch in the SantaYnez Valley, and all the store houses, their con-tents, the shops, vineyards, orchards, and thetannery in the vicinity of the The Mission Fountain In 1846, Colonel John C. Fremont came overthe mountains by way of the San Marcos Pass,while the Mexican defenders of Santa Barbarawaited in vain to meet him at the Gaviota city was taken without a fight, and thuspassed into the hands of the Americans. Fromthis time the Mission has been free from any ofthe annoyances and persecutions which charac- 57 SANTA BARBARA terized the Mexican rule, but its great estateswere gone and only a titiie of its once wide pos-sessions remains. After the death of Bishop Diego, Padre Gon-zales Rubio became administrator of the w^hole diocese of California, and in 1850 surrenderedcontrol of same to the Right Reverend J. S. Ale-many, who made him Vicar-General of the Dio-cese. During this administration, in 1853, aneffort was made to establish a Franciscan collegefor the education of young men for the priest-hood in California, and Bishop Alemany recom-mended Santa Barbara for that
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