352 EAST PRUSSIA TO THE GOLDEN GATE 



Through kindness of Mr. Alfred Street, who himself held 

 the office of county surveyor of Los Angeles twenty years 

 after Lecouvreur, the following copy from the records 

 of the work done during the latter 's terms of office has 

 been obtained: 



Surveys of Gallatin Eoad in 1870 ; of Tustin and New- 

 port City in 1871; Anaheim Landing, Compton; Gallatin 

 College, Santa Gertrudes, and Anaheim Telegraph Road, 

 1871; Monte Branch Eoad in 1872; Ballona, Green Mea- 

 dows; Anaheim Landing II., Cahuenga Roads, Anaheim 

 Spadra, Green Meadow VII., Compton II., Richland, 

 Cahuenga, Westminster, Lexington and Gallatin, Ana- 

 heim and Orange Roads in 1873. Mr. Lecouvreur 's diary 

 does not give us many details of his official services, but a 

 few notes of interest from public records should not be 

 omitted in this connection. Some of them may have been 

 and, to the knowledge of the translator, are mentioned in 

 the graphic records given us by the eminent writers of 

 Southern California history, J. M. Guinn and H. D. Bar- 

 rows. Many a page in the "Illustrated History of Los 

 Angeles County" (signed or unsigned) is from the pen of 

 Mr. Barrows, who will likewise write the preface to this 

 biographical translation and thereby give the weight of 

 his testimony to the work. We read: 



January, 1870. The people of this city were so worked 

 up by the actions of the councilmen in regard to several 

 financial manipulations that they caused the arrest of this 

 honorable body headed by the mayor. 



December 31st, 1870. The local vigilance committee, 

 which has given the city a much needed cleansing of bad 

 characters, has suspended its actions with the close of 

 the year and after hanging the last of desperadoes, Michel 

 Lachenais. 



October, 1871. There has been a Chinese massacre this 

 month, a most disgraceful affair, the like of which is for- 

 tunately not on American records. Some members of 

 different Chinese secret societies fought over the posses- 

 sion of a woman. The first battle took place in Negro 



