Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-09-20


CAMiL0 MARTIN. Complainant, VS..
WILLIAM TEMPLE, Administrator
WILLIAM WORKMAN. deceased, ct al,
Defendants.
In pursuance of q decree of said Circuit
Court, entered in the above entitled
cause on the 18th day of February, 1879,
whereby 1, the undersigned, Master in
CHI ancery of said Court, was authorized
and directed to make. conduct and carry
out the sale of the property hereinafter
described.
Notice is hereby given that on
SATURDAY, the Goth DAY
OF SEPTEMBEE, 1870,
At O'Clock T. NJ. of that day, at the door
OF tn" Court House, in the city of Los
Angcles, i'll the county of Los Ange-
les, in said district, l shall sell at
public auction, TO the highest bidder, for
cash in gold coin OF the United states, in
separate parcels Jas hereinafter described
the following described property, or so
much hereof as shall be Necessary TO pay
complainant the amount due under said
decree, with intereSt and costs and ac-
cruiug costs, except the portions thereof
hereinafter particularly mentioned and
described, the said property being stu
ated in the county of Los Angeles, state
of California, district aforesaid, and par
ticularly bounded and described rs fol-
Jews, 10 Wit:
Flrst-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 tue south
hall of the southwest quarter OF section
seventeen 10 in township two ~, south
range thirteen (l3), west san Bernardino
base and meridian, containing 50 acres,
more or less.
Second-Aii that tract of land situated
in the county of Los Angeles known as
the "Rancho potrero Grande," bounded
and described in the patent for the same
issued by the United States Government
to Juan NJ. sanchez, dated July 10, 1853,
recorded in Book l of Patents, on page l
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 contained, refer
ence is hereby made for more particu-
lar descript thereof, saving and eX-
cepting from the operation OF said decree
so much thereof as is contained and de-
scribed in q certain deed made by Will
liam Workman to magenta Workman
dc Temple, dated October2d 1862; record
ed October 3D., 1862, in book 5, 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
beng that portion conveyed to William
Workman by john Rowland. Sr., by a
deed of partition dated June I'D, 1868, re-
corded June 18th, 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: Eirst-A
deed from William Workman to Marga'
ret Work man de Temple, dated March
5th, 1865 recorded March 9th ,.lS6S, in book
OF deeds, page 1923. Second-A deed from
William Workman to Frederick Lam
bourn, dated September 10th, 1870, and
recorded September 18th. 1870, in book Is
of deeds, page 459. Third-A deed from
William Workman and Peregrlue Fitz-
hugh to Il l. Beale and Robert s Baker,
dated April LIST, 1872, and recorded April
I'd, 1872, in book 20 of deeds, page g..
Fourth-A deed from William Work man
to Joseph w Work man. dated October
llth, 1870, and recorded March eth, 1873,
in book2i OF deeds, page 275. Fifth
Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
dated August 10Th, 1873, and recorded No
VEN Der goth, 1873, in book II OF deeds,
page 1913. And siXth-A deed from Will
liam Workman to the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company dated April 8th, 1871,
and recorded May 4th, 1874, in book % OF
deeds. page Sl7, all in Records of Los An
geles county, which said tact after ex-
cepting the portions referred to in the
six deeds last aforementioned lis bound
ed and DESERT bed us 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 Der.
nardino, in an irregular mound of rock
from which q willow tree inches in di-
ameter bears N 721S degrees w distant 9Sl
links: thence according TO the true me-
rdian Uhe magnetic variation being ID
deg 80 minutes east) along the exterior
boundary OF said Rancho La Puente, as
surveyed and patented by the United
states. as follows; n 80 deg II ID chains 40
links to a willow inches in diameter,
marked sta. .; thence N H. degrees &c 45
chains; thence n Ii deg Il 50 chains to
station 4, to Il rocl, l4inches long, inches
wide and inches thick; thence N 10 deg
4 2iS chains to sycamore "a inches in
diameter, about one chain south of the
road leading to san Bernardino and
marked station 5; thence along the parti-
ton line described in said deed of parti
ton between William Workman and
John Rowland, Sr, 5 deg w 40 chains to
the northeast corner OF the 30 acre tract
OF said Frederick Lambourn; thence
along said tract n So deg w 20 chains;
4 deg w 20 chains; and S Sc degrees + 20
chains back to said partition line; thence
along said partition line as follows: 5
deg W IS chains 81 links to stake east
1893 chains, to stake in mound in ravine,
from which stake the northern one of a
group of three sycamoreS on the southern
edge of gully or wash, all OF about thir-
ty inches diameter, bears 50 deg w dis
tant 40i LINKS, and the southern one of
said gIoup bears $ SO deg w distant dis
links; the middle one OF said group not
being visible from the said stake; thence
over the san Jose Hills 5 Y degrees II l0t
chains and 50 links to the northeast cor
ner of the tract of land conveyed by VIII
liam Workman and Peregrine Fitzhugh
to Il Beale and Robert Baker; thence
along the northern boundary line OF said
Beale and Baker tract, as fol-
lows; S IS deg " IL chains 81 links to
stake marked L Fitzhugh and William
Workman, on top OF a large nil; thence
S SO deg w 40 chains and 50 links TO
stake in mound of stone marked "P F1tz-
hugh and w Workman" close to small
arroyo; thence 66A deg w % chains
and 90 links to big pile OF rocks on top
of hill, marked "P + IL W W." thence
stake marke ed "P + & w W." with mound
and pits, posted on summit OF "A nigh anu
steep hill; thence S 500 deg w 45 chains
so links to a big pile OF rocks marked on
the southern Side "P Fl" thence
n ri "p F & " W." on the
summit of high hill, with mound and
to a stake marked "P F&W W." with pits
in a mound; thence N "a deg w 75chains
to stake marked up titZhugh&W Work.
man." on top OF hill; thence $ s. deg w
~ chains to n point in said partition line;
thence along said partition line as fol-
lows: N % deg w 20 chains to station II,
at stump of five prongs of an elder tree
in the center of an arroyo, surrounded by
cactus patches; thence over the plain N
$40 degrees w lis chains to stake in
mound; thence S deg w los chains so
links to Il stake in mound at the foot OF
the western point of the San Jose Hills,
from which stake the house OF William
Workman bears S 59% deg w and 5 6O1%
deg W; the chapel bears $ 81 deg w; the
mill OF John Rowland bears s. deg f,
and his house bears S 1917 deg w; thence
s 22% deg W As chains CT links to the
northern end of the division fence be-
tween the enclosures of Workman and
Rowland; thence along said fence
) % deg W s chains so links to an offsetin |
fence on the south bank OF an arroyo;
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