Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-10-05


GAMiLo MARTIN, Complainant, VS..
WILLIAM TEMPLE, Administrator
with the will annexed of the estate OF
Defendants.
In pursuance of decree of said Circuit
Court, entered in the above entitled
cause on the 18th day of February, 1871,
whereby /, the undersigned, Master IN
| Oh ancery of said Court, was authorized
and directed to make. conduct and carry
| ont the sale OF the property hereinafter
described.
Notice is hereby given that on
SATURDAY, the Goth DAY
OF SEPTEMBER, 1879,
At 8 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 at
public auction, to the highest bidder, for
cash in gold coin of the United States, in
separate parcels,Gs hereinafter described
| the following described property, or so
much thereof as shall be necessary TO pay
| complainant 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 stu
| ated in the county of Los Angeles, State
of California, district Aforesaid, and par
ticularly bounded and described as fol-
| LEWIS, to wit:
First-All that piece OF land situated in
/ the county or 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 I'D in township two (2), south
range thirteen (lSl, west san Bernardino
base and meridian, containing 81 acres,
| more or less.
Second-All that tract ofland 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 ~, 1893,
| recorded in Book l 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 a 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 q certain deed made by Will
| liam Workman to Margerita Workman
de Temple, dated October I'd, 1852; record
ed October Sd, 1852, in book 5, page 6S4,
| 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
being that portion conveyed TO William
| Workman by John Rowland. ST., by Il
deed of partition dated June 23d, 1865, re-
corded June 25ih, 1868, in book 10 of deeds,
l DDt ,
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 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 l6th.. 1870, and
recorded september 18th. 1870, in book 10
| of deeds, page 459. Third-A deed from
| William Workman and Peregrlne F1tz-
hugh to e L Beale and Robert = Baker,
dated April LIST, 1872, and recorded April
| I'd, 1872, in book 20 of deeds, page 81.
| Fourth-A deed from William Workman
| to Joseph w WORKING dated October
18th, 1870, and recorded March 9th, 1878,
in book "a OF deeds, page 275. Fifth--A
| deed from William Workman to the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
dated August 2Uth 1873, and recorded n o.
yember goth, 1873, in book ~ 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 go OF
deeds. page 81, all in Records of Los An
geles county, which said uact-after ex-
cepting the portions referred to in the
| six deeds last above-mentioned.is bound
ed and describ bed 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 a willow tree inches in di-
ameter bears N TN degrees w distant 9Sl
links: thence according TO the true me-
ridian (the magnetic variation being 10
deg 80 minutes east along the exterior
boundary of said Rancho La Puente, as
surveyed and patented by the United
states. as follows: n 50 deg f. 10 chains 40
links to a willow inches in diameter,
marked sta. 2; thence N M degrees e 40
chains; thence N II deg Il 50 chains to
station 4, to a rock liinches long, inches
wide and inches thick; thence N 70 deg
+ 2I6 chains to sycamore "A inches i'll
diameter, about one chain south of the
road leading to san BernardinO and
marked station 5; thence along tho parti-
tion line described in said deed of parti-
ton between William Workman and
John Rowland, Sr, s deg w 40 chains to
OF said Frederick Lambourn; thence
along said tract N IS deg w 20 chains; S
deg w 20 chains; and $ So degrees E 20
chains back to said partition line; thence
along said partition line as follows: s A
deg w IS chains 50 links to stake east
1893 chains, to astake in moundin ravine,
| 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 group bears S SO deg W distant AIS
| links; the middle one of said group not
being visible from the said stake; thence
over the san Jose Hills S % degrees Il l0J
chains and 80 links to the northeast cor
ner of the tract of land conveyed by Will
liam Workman and Peregrine FitZhugh
to E s Beale and Robert Baker; thence
along the northern boundary line OF said
Beale and Baker tract, as fol-
lows: S IS deg w AZ chains 81 links to
stake marked p t'itzhugh and William
Workman, on top of a large hill; thence
S 80 deg w 40 chains and 50 links 10
stake in mound of stone marked "P F1tz-
hugh and w Workman" close to small
arroyo; thence N 66H deg w % chains
and 50 links to big pile OF rocks ON top
S751 deg W Is chains and 50 links, to a
stake mark ed up F& w W." with mound
and pits, posted on su mmit OF nigh ana
steep hill; thence S 59h deg w 40 chains
80 links to big pile OF r re Ks, marked on
the southern side "P F;'' thence
marked ri "P F W W." on the
summit of high hill, with mound and
to a stake marked "P F&W W." with pits
in q mound; thence N "A deg w 75chains
to stake marked up Fitzhugh& w Work.
man." on top OF hill; thence s 65 deg w
AZ chains to "a 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 1--WE prongs of an elder tree
in the center of an arroyo, surrounded by
cactus patches; thence over the plain N
S4% degrees w lis chains to q stake in q
mound; thence S deg w l05 chains 80
links to q 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 591a deg W and S 6O%
deg w; the chapel bears S 81 deg W; The
mill OF John Rowland bears s deg IL,
and his house bears 1917 deg w; thence
s 2215 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
s % deg w chains 90 links to an ohsetin
fence on the south bank OF an arroyo;
thence N 63 deg w % links TO corner OF
fence; thence S 20 deg w 10 chains SO
links to the center of San Jose creek
thence along the channel of said creek N
5l% deg w chains; 81 deg w chains;
N 40h deg w 2 chains SO links; N 63 deg
w q chains 80 links. N Ii deg w chains: