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Bishop Kip's Letter. Stay at San Diego. No. 5, 1854. Holograph manuscript of letter published in The Spirit of Missions. [continued]
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Although our party, children included, amounted to nearly a dozen, yet our host gave us a most hospitable welcome. An admirable supper in the Spanish style, tortillas, and frijoles of course included, made amends for the day, while comfortable rooms compensated us for the last two nights of wakefulness on the steamer. Don Juan is the leading man in this part of California. Belonging to an old Mexican Spanish family, he has retained his landed possessions, and the vast herds of cattle which in this country constitute wealth. He has a number of ranchos (or farms) in this State, and in the Mexican province of Lower California, one of which is mentioned as covering eleven leagues. We were told that his son-in-law, during the past year, had sold from one of his ranchos, three thousand head of cattle, at sixteen dollars each, and that he could continue doing this year after year, without diminishing his stock. It is a specimen of the nature of California wealth among the old Spanish inhabitants. [next] Pages: cover 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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