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Rh valuation of $93,000, besides church property to the amount of $46,000, and over $8,000 distributed to the Indians. At the end of 1836, the mission estate had still about 900 cattle and 4,000 sheep, with a crop of 900 bushels, and a debt of $1,300. These are the latest statistics extant. Secularization appears to have been much more complete than at the establishments farther south, there being no traces of the community after 1836. Constant depredations of savages with ex-neophyte allies from 1837 contributed to the work of ruin; but a little settlement of gente de razon sprang into existence, containing I suppose 50 inhabitants at the end of the decade; the name became San Juan de Castro; jueces de paz took charge of local affairs; and the town was honored by being made cabecera of the district in 1839, on the organization of the prefecture.

Padre Joaquin Jimeno continued his ministry at Santa Cruz till 1833, when he was succeeded by Padre Antonio Suarez del Real, who remained throughout the decade. In 1834 the neophyte population had fallen from 320 to about 250, and apparently there was no very marked loss in live-stock or agriculture down to that time. Secularization was