Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28

culture Of the day, and the missionary
labors Of the PROSECUTING priests whose de- |
votion to the work challenges the admira- |
ton of all historical readers. Chapter |
tenth gives US a record of events in 1774, |
and the second annual report on mission |
progress. The eleventh is devoted 10 an |
examination of northern exploration |
of romantic interest, since it in
wolves the whole story of coast ex-
ploration by the Spanish feet of ITS,
the discovery of Bodega and Trinidad
BAYS, the surveys of San Francisco bay by
Ayala during his forty days stay in its
waters in the ship San Carlos. 1t includes
also graphic account of the destruction OF
San Diego, the expeditions OF Auzs Font
and Garces. The founding of the Preside
and Mission at San Francisco, and the
history of Pueblo beginnings, bring US
ND to 1850, and the completion of the
| first decade of occupation From that
period ON to the close of the volume its at
tractiveness grows and the historian man
ifests his own profound almost enthusiastic
| interest in the romantic story. We may
| not in limited space even indicate the steps
| BY which it is advanced. No such reference
| can do il Justice. In the reading, no part of
| the volume has impressed us so profoundly
| with the exhaustiyeness and laborious re
| search of the author than that which en-
braces the Mission founding era succeeding
the first decade, say between 1874 and 1900,
and including the text from Chapter XXVI.
to the close of the volume. The record
| embraces the industrial and materi-
ally progressive early history of what
is now our State, as well as
| an account of those events and
| features which have in greater OF less
degree made their impress upon the Cali
fornian history and belong 10 the annals of
the State As, for instance, the record of
the genesis of agriculture in California !:
the entry of the first foreign vessels into
California waters; the feeble beginnings of
| commerce; the methods employed for
the government of the region and
the events distinguishing the reign of
land the land-grant beginnings !;
the growth of the Missions; the conversion
of the Indians TO the Christian faith the
perseverance of the priests in their mis-
sionary calling; the events of the mill
tary occupation; the construction of the
earliest Notifications; the visit of
Vancouver to San Francisco bay in
1892; the discovery OF supposed mines near
San Francisco in 1895; the founding of the
royal ranches the revolt of the Indians
against the padres, and the punishments
their cody hands inflicted the manufact-
ure of the first cloth in California the pro-
secution of stock raising; the growth of
agriculture under its rude introduction.
The volume closes with a list of
over I,700 names of male inhabitants
of the province of California, down
to the year 1900. This roster was made
from company rolls, mission registers,
pueblo padrones, and from thousands
of miscellaneous documents in the arch
ives of the Bancroft library. This
one feature alone testifies to the long
patient labor which must have preceded
the presentation of the first volume of the
fullest and most elaborate and best fortified
historical record yet made Of the early
California pGriod