62 EXPLORATION OF BURTON MOUND [PrH. ANN. 44 
The Santa Cruz Island Co. had their corrals for handling sheep at 
the southwest corner of the present Ambassador grounds. <A fence 
ran around that corner, forming a single corral, and there was a shack 
near where Bath Street meets the Cabrillo Boulevard which was used 
for shearing sheep and for a storage place. 
Mr. Greenwell recalls that the swamp extended parallel with the 
beach from Chapala Street as far as the present eastern driveway of 
the grounds. It was not a lake, but a place of tules and willows. 
People used to shoot ducks there. 
It was a Seventh Day Adventist [Mr. Eli Kimberly] who started 
the bathhouse at the sulphur spring at the eastern end of the mound. 
That gentleman sold the bathhouse to Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Jenkins 
sold it to Mr. Max Aman. 
Mr. Stephen Bowers dug for archeological remains one time at the 
corner of the grounds, where Chapala Street meets the Cabrillo 
Boulevard. That corner of the grounds, the extreme corner toward 
the wharf, was high. This information, wholly volunteered by Mr. 
Greenwell, has been corroborated by similarly volunteered informa- 
tion from several other informants. 
INTERVIEW WITH MRS. RAMONA TRUSSELL 
Mrs. Ramona Trussell,!* born in 1836, was interviewed in connec- 
tion with the mound. Her father was Mr. Sparks. Mrs. Trussell’s 
sister, Mrs. Packard, is also living. 
Mrs. Trussell stated that when she was a girl, and she was born at 
Santa Barbara, the mound was half wild and there was no bath- 
house over the sulphur spring. The sulphur springs were, in fact, 
merely muddy places, but people used to go there to bathe and would 
drink the water. She could not remember who built the adobe house, 
but it was there prior to the Burtons, and she imagines that Mr. 
Chapman may have constructed it. 
INTERVIEW WITH MILO M. POTTER 
We had the unique opportunity of an interview with Mr. Potter 
on the Ambassador grounds. He explained the grading operations 
to the minutest detail and told of his burying the relics, also of bury- 
ing a redwood box of bones somewhere on the grounds, a “ coffin ” as 
he called it, but declined to tell us just where.** The information 
gathered from Mr. Potter was lengthy and will be given in full in a 
future paper. 
44Mrs. Trussell died in April, 1924. 
“a Both the cache of relics and the redwood box have been found. 
