Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-03-09
LEGAL.
MASTERS SALE.

In the Circuit Court of the United States.
Ninth Circuit, in and Tor the District of
California.
ga GAMlLo MARTIN, Al Complainant, vs.:
with the Will annexed OF the estate OF
WILLIAM WORKMAN. deceased, ct al,
Defendants.
In pursuance OF a decree OF said Circuit
Court, entered In the above entitl ed
cause on the 18th day of February, 1879,
whereby 1, the undersigned, Master in
Oh ancery of said Court, was authorized
and directed to make. eonduct and carry
out the sale of the property hereinafter
described.
Notice is hereby given that on
MONDAY, the TWELFTH DAY
OF MAY, 1879,
At the door of the Court House, in the
city of Los Angeles, in the county of Los
Angeles, In said district, l shall sell at
pubic ction, to the highest bidder, for
cash in gold coin of the United States. in
separate parcels AS hereinafter desert bed
the following described property, or so
much thereof as shall be necessary TO pay
com plainant the amount due under said
decree, with interest and costs and ac-
cruing costs, except the portions thereof
hereinafter particularly mentioned and
described, the said property being situ-
ated In the county of Los Angeles, State
ticularly bounded and described as fol-
| Jews, TO wit:
First-All that piece OF land situated in
| the county of Los Angeles known and
described in the public surveys OF the
| United States of America AS the south
| half of the southwest quarter OF section
seventeen Q7) in township two (2), SOU til
range thirteen (lS), west san Bernardino
base and meridian, containing 50 acres,
more or less.
| Second-All that tract of land situated
| in the county of Los Angeles known as
the Rancho Potrero Grande, bounded
and d described In the patent for the sam 9
| issued by The United States Governme ent
to Juan NJ. sanchez, dated July 10, 1850,
recorded in Book of Patents, on page
and following, Records of the County OF
Los Angeles, to which, and to the survey
of the United states Surveyor General
and field notes therein contain ed, refer
ence is hereby made for more particu-
lar description thereof, saving and ex-
cepting from the operation OF said decree
SO much thereof as is contained and de-
scribed in a certain deed made by Will
liam Workman to MargerIta Workman
de Temple, dated October I'd, 1862; record
ed october Sd, 1892, in book 8, page 634,
Records OF Los Angeles county.
Third--All that tract of land situated
in the county OF Los Angeles, being a
portion Of the Rancho La Puente and be-
ing that portion conveyed to William
Workman by John Rowland. Sr., by a
d4eu phfJltlOu ualeu June Zou, 1873, re-
corded June 25th, 1858, in book 10 OF deeds,
page 80, Records Of Los Angeles county,
saving and excepting therefrom all those
portions thereof described and conveyed
in and by the following deeds: First-A
deed from William Workman to Marga-
ret Workman de Temple, dated March
5th, 1865, recorded March 9th ,.l868, in book
OF deeds, page 1923. Second-A deed from
William Workman to Frederick Lam
bourD, dated September 18th, 1870, and
Santam N
of deeds, page 459. Third-A deed from
William Workman and Peregrlne Fitz-
hugh to K 4 Beale and Robert = Baker,
dated April LIST, 1872, and recorded April
Fourth-A deed from William Workman
to Joseph w Work man, dated October
llth, 1870, and recorded March 9th, 1873,
in book2i OF deeds, page 275. Fifth11A
Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
dated August goth, 1873, and recorded 10.
vember Goth, 1873, in book 81 OF deeds,
page 1913. And sixth--A deed from Will
liam Workman to the southern Pacific
Railroad Company dated April Sth, 1874,
and recorded May 4th, 1874, in book 20 OF
deeds, page 3l7, all in Records of Los An
geles county, which said tact after ex-
cepting the portions referred to in the
six deeds last aforementioned. is bound-
ed and described as follows: Beginning
at point in the centre of the old bed OF
the river San Gabriel on the south side
of the road from Los Angeles to San Ber.
nardino, in an irregular mound OF rock
from which willow tree inches in di-
ameter bears N 721a degrees w distant 9Sl
links: thence according to the true me-
ridian (the magnetic variation being l3
deg 80 minutes easU along the exterior
boundary OF said Rancho La Puente, as
surveyed and patented by tho United
States. as follows: n 80 deg f l3 chains 4o
links to a willow iuches in diameter,
marked sta. 2; thence N 1lH degrees e 45
nl.n A n ..l,,
station 4, to a rock II inches long, 5 inches
wide and inches thick; thence N 75 deg
e 24S chains to sycamore "a inches in
diameter, about one chain south OF the
marked station s; thence along the parti-
tion line described in said deed of parti-
ton between William Workman and
John Rowland, Sr, s deg w 40 chains to
the northeast corner OF the 40 acre tract
of said Frederick Lambourn; thence
along said tract N SO deg w 20 chains; s
deg W 20 chains; and S SO degrees K 20
chains back to said partition line; thence
along said partition line as follows: y
deg w 3S chains SO links to a stake east
from which stake the northern one of
group of three sycamores on the southern
edge OF gully or wash, all of about thir-
ty inches diameter, bears 81 deg w dis
tant 40i LINKS, and the southern one of
said gfoup bears SO deg w distant 4l8
links; the middle one of said group not
being visible from the said stake; thence
over the san Jose Hills S % degrees e lO6
ner of the tIact of land conveyed by Will
liam Workman and Peregrine Fitzhugh
to E s Beale and Robert S Baker; thence
along the northern boundary line of said
Beale % and w Baker tract, as fol.
stake marked P Fltzhugh and William
Work man, on top of a large hill; thence
S 33 deg w 10 chains and so links to a
stake in mound of stone marked z F1tz-
arroyo; thence N 66A deg w 2S chains
Of a hill, marked P F&W W; themes s
S754 deg w Is chains and so links, to n
stake marked 7 f & Wv. with mound
steep hill; thence s 591s deg w 45 chains |
80 links to big pile of rocks marked on |
the northern side w w and on the south |
ern side p #; thence s 81 deg w % chains
summit OF high hill, with mound and |
pits; thence s 65 deg w 40 chains 05 links |
to stake marked p + & w w, with pits |
in mound; thence n 7! deg W IS 5chains |
man, on top Of a hill; thence 65 deg W |
~ chains to point in said partition line;
thence along said partition line as fol-
lows: N 2S deg w 20 chains to station IL,
at q stump OF Ave prongs Of an elder tree
In the center of an arroyo, surrounded by |
cactus patches; thence over the plain N |
s4% degrees w ll8 chains to q stake in n |
thence s deg W los chains 80 |
Inks to a stake in mound at the foot OF |
the western point of the San Jose Hills,
from which stake the house OF William |
Workman bears 3 59M deg w and 60L |
deg w: the chapel bears = 81 deg W; the
mill of John Rowland bears 8 deg f,
and his house bears 1917 deg W; thence
) 221a deg w As chains by links to the
northern end of the division fence be-
ween the enclosures of Workman and
thence along said fence
! % deg W 5 chains so links to an Offset in
ence on the south bank of an arroyo;
hence N 6S deg w % links 10 corner of
ence; thence s 22 deg w 10 chains 36
inks to the center OF San Jose creek;
hence along the channel of said creek N
M deg w Z chains; S 81 deg W chains;
Y 4016 deg w 2 chains so links; N 83 deg
W chains so links; N l3 deg W chalns;
Y 60 deg w 2 chains: N rs deg w 2 chains
70 links; N So deg w chain so links; N
il Il deg w chains % links to station 80,
whence the southeast corner of Work.
mans Chapel bears N 20 deg w; N "A deg
W chains so links; N 81 deg w 8 chains
20 links; N 40 deg w 8 chains so links;
dou o oh I'M I'm |