Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-08-26
LEGAL.
MASTERS SALE.


In the Circuit Court of the United States.
Ninth Circuit, in and Tor the District of
California.
CAMiLo MARTIN, Complainant, VS..
WILLIAM VII IA TEMPLE, Adminissratorr ai,s,e OF
WILLIAM WORKMAN. deceased, OF al,
Defendants.
In pursuance OF q decree of said Circuit
Court, entered in the above entitled Leo
cause on the 18th day of February, 1873,
whereby 1, the undersigned, Master IN
Chancery 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 SEPTEMBER, 1879,
At O'Clock p. NJ. of that day, at the door
of the Court House, In the city OF Los
AngeIes, in the county of Los Ange-
les, in said district, L shall sell AZ
public auction, to the highest bidder, Tor
cash in gold coin of the United states, in
separate parcels, ,as hereinafter described
the following described property, or so
much thereof as shall be l. ecessary TO pay
com plainant the amount due under SAID
decree, with interes. and costs ana ac-
cruing costs ex cept the portions thereof
hereinafter particularly mentioned and
described, the said property being stu
ated in the county OF. Los Angeles, state
of California, district aoresaid, and par
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 or America as Tue SCUM
halt of the southwest quarter OF section
| seventeen (l7) in township two ~, south
range thirteen (l3), west san Bernardino
base and meridian, containing S0 acres,
more or less.
s;econd-Ali 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 len
| to Juan NJ. sanchez, dated July l9. 1859.
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 contained. 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 ana de-
| scribed in n certain deed made by VIII
| liam Workman to Margerta Workman
| de Temple, dated October I'd, 1852; record
ed october Sd, 1862, in book 5, page O3i,
Records of Los Angeles county.
| Third--All that tract of land situated
| in the county Of Los Angeles, being n
portion OF the "Rancho La Puente" and
| being that portion conveyed to william
| Workman by John Rowland. ,Sr., by a
deed of partition dated June 23d, 1868, re-
corded June 25th, 1868, 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 Work de Temple, dated March
9th, 1865 recorded March 9th ,.lS6S, In book
OF deeds, page 32S. Second-A deed from
| William Workman to Frederick Lam
bourn, dated September 18th, 1870, and
recorded september 18th. 1870, in book 10
of deeds, page 459. Third-A deed from
william Workman and Peregrine Fitz-
hugh to + u Beale and Robert y Baker,
da.ed April LIST, 1872, and recorded April
ID, 1872, In book 20 of deeds, page g..
Fourth-A deed from William Workman
to Joseph w Work man, dated October
ilth, 1870, and recorded March 9th, 1873,
in book "A OF deeds, page 275. Fifth--A
deed from William Workman to the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
dated August 2UtiI, 1873, and recorded No
vem ber 10th, 1873, in book ~ OF deeds,
page I23. And slxth-A deed from Will
liam Workman to the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company dated April 8th, 1874,
and recorded May 4th, 1874, in book % OF
deeds, page BIZ, all in Records OF Los An
geles county, which said tact ex-
cepting the portions referred to in the
six deeds last above-mentionedi lis bound
ed and described as follows: Beginning
at point in the centre of the old bed OF
of the road from Los Angeles to San Ber'
nardino, in an irregular mound OF rock
from which willow tree inches In dl-
ameter bears N 721a degrees W distant 9Sl
links; thence according TO the true me-
ridian (the magnetic variation being IL
deg 30 minutes easD along the exterior
boundary OF said Rancho La Puente, as
surveyed and patented by The United
states. as follows: n 3! deg K l3 chains ID
links to O willow u iuches in diameter,
marked sta. 2; thence N llR degrees E s5
chains; thence n II deg + so chains 10
station 4, to a rock IA inches long, inches
wide and inches thick; thence N rs deg
| \, 2iS chains to Il sycamore "a inches in
diameter, about one chain south of the
road leading to san Bernardino and
marked station 8; thence along the parti-
ton line described in said deed OF parti-
ton between William Workman and
John Rowland, Sr, ) 4 deg w 40 chains to
the northeast corner OF the 40 acre tract
| of said frederick Lamb bourn; thence
4dee w 20 chains; and S S6 degrees K 20
| chains back to said partition line; thence
| along said partition line as follows: y 4
| deg W 3S chains 80 links TO a stake east
| 393 chains, to stake in mound in ravine,
| from which stake the northern one of a
group of three sycamores on the southern
| edge of a gully or wash, all of about thir-
ty inches diam eter, bears S 81 deg w dis
| tant 4Oi links, and the southern one of
said gIoup bears s SO deg w distant Ais
links; the middle one of said group not
being yisi bic from the said stake; thence
over The san Jose Hills $ ~ degrees Il lOt
chains and so links to the northeast cor
ner of the tiact of land conveyed by Will
liam Workman and Peregrine Fitzhugh
to Z 8 Beale and Robert $ Baker; thence
along the northern boundary line of SAID
Beale and Baker tract, as fol-
stake marked z Fitzhugh and William
Workman, on top OF large hill; thence
S 83 deg w 40 chains and so links to
| stake in mound of stone marked "P Fitz.
hugh and W Workman" close to small
| arroyo; thence n 66H deg w 23 chains
Of ora a hill, Hi marked Up + 4 W WI" thence s
s7s4 deg " l5 chains 81 and nc 80 links, TO
and pits, posted on summit OF nigh and
steep hiif; thence S 500 deg w 40 chains
| 20 links to a big pile OF rocks marked on
the northern side "W W" and on
marked n "p" & " w." on % the
summit OF a high hill, with mound and
pits; thence 8 65 deg " 45 chains 70 links
| in a mound; thence N "a dog w IS chains
| b stak marked "P Fitzhugh&W Work.
m - !" on top OF hill; thence 85 deg w
| AZ chains TO u point in said partition line;
lows: N % deg W 20 chains to station II,
| at a stump of tive prongs of an elder tree
| in the cepter OF an arroyo, surrounded by
cactus patches; thence over the plain N
| 84% degrees w llS chains to a stake in
mound; thence S 4 deg w los chains so
links to 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 60x
deg W; the chapel bears 81 deg W. The
mill OF John Rowland bears S deg h,
and his house bears 1917 deg W. thence
8 22% deg w as chains 67 links to the
northern end of the division fence be-
apnlngnrag Workman md
Rowland; thence along said fence
: % deu w chains 80 lin ks to an Offset in