64 EXPLORATION OF BURTON MOUND [BTH. ANN. 44 
INTERVIEW WITH A. M. GUTIERREZ 
Mr. A. M. Gutierrez recalls the appearance of the mound in the 
eighties. He said that he and various other boys used to play all over 
Burton Mound. He remembers the mound at the foot of Chapala 
Street and says that it was some 6 feet high or more. I asked him 
if it was of sand, and he added that it was of earth too. He agreed 
that the wharf butted against it. 
INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES T. HALL 
Mr. Charles T. Hall, who resides at 117 Bath Street, proved a good 
informant on the property which has lain across the street from him 
for 50 years. The site of the burial ground has always been felt by 
him to be in the present lawn, that is on the site toward the ocean 
side of the mound. A second burial ground, in his opinion, was the 
one at the junction of Chapala Street with Cabrillo Boulevard, and 
which ought to yield good results to the excavator, if one were not 
prevented from digging there by the place being covered over by the 
street and boulevard, at least to a large extent. 
Mr. Joe Woods told Mr. Hall that de Sissac, Stephen Bowers, and 
himself had all prospected around Burton Mound, more or less, for 
Indian relics. But they never did any digging there that amounted 
to anything. 
The ocean came across the sand sometimes in the days before the 
boulevard was put in and some of the water got over into the swamp 
between the mound and the beach. 
Aw Earty Descrietion or THE Burton Mounp 
The following appreciative summary of information about the 
Burton Mound is taken from “ Santa Barbara As It Is,” published 
by the Independent Publishing Company, Santa Barbara, Calif, 
1884, pp. 51-54: 
Many of the residents of Santa Barbara know this interesting spot only 
as the late residence of Don Louis Burton, as a beautiful shady spot for 
picnics, and as the destined site of a grand seaside hotel. Travelers upon the 
decks of passing steamers admire the beauty of the place, which stands, a 
romantic landmark of the past, only a few hundred feet from the landing place. 
It is a mound, circular in form, standing prominently above the level of the 
surrounding plain, about 400 feet from the surf which breaks upon the smooth 
sandy beach at its foot. The top of the mound is about 30 feet above high 
water and the mound itself comprises about 2 acres, although the property of 
which it is a part contains 30 acres. From the level summit may be seen the 
shore line for 30 miles or more to the east; to the south, the channel and its 
towering islands present a fascinating prospect; to the west, the lighthouse, 
perched upon the bluff; and nearer, the “ Castle Rock” or the Punta del Castillo, 
around which the restless waves invoke a ceaseless melody. Landward, the city, 
