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LOS ANGELES. 
O NE HUNDRED yours ago the fourth 
of September next, the order was 
issued from Mission San Gabriel, by the then 
Governor of California, Felipe de Neve, 
directing the establishment of the Pueblo 
of Los Angeles. 
(And hero we would suggest that tin 
event should be celebrated, and that then- 
could bo no more appropriate manner of! 
celebration than by an exposition of the 
products of our soil, our Improvement in 
stock-raising, our advancement in floricul¬ 
ture, and last, but not least, by an «Tflthn*i- J 
astic gathering of robust, comfortable,' 
healtby people, such as no other part of 
the earth can bring together.) 
water taken from the river for irrigation 
purposes. 
| Ihelirst houses were adobes, similar to 
those now standing. Wo believe many of 
the buildings now standing in Sonora town 
were among the lind built. 
TilK MIWHOXN. 
Si*teen years after the founding of ],■*•> 
Angel.*, llie third and last Angelo J 
county mission, Sail Pnrii«mlu, w»* r.mnb 
liahed in the valley which bears it« name. 
Thn oldest of these missions, San Antonin, 
was founded duly 14, 1771; the second, 
Sim Gabriel, Sept, H, the saint* vear. The 
Priests were the power; and the govern¬ 
ment of the enmity, a* well ns of the State, 
was practically in the hands of lint mis¬ 
sions. 
for ! _ 
J 
merit. First Kcheadria, and a ben 
Pin Pico (now a citizen of this cii 
appointed Governors by the Me* 
authorities. 
Th*' early history of th«* e«>ontT 
dingly interesting—a portion <f 
thrilling »* a romance. 
H would appear, to tbr. casual observer 
of our history, that I jo* Angele* i* an old 
tattled country, when 
country, open for a tide of industrious 
immigrant*, 
l.o* Angeles may he said to have sprung 
Into life with the tide of emigration whirl, 
set hi for Southern California since the war. 
Practically speaking. Southern California, 
with her grape vine* orre on® hundred 
Rrsiorrck of ,1. E, Hoij.knuvi k. law Am 
Tl”. ».« ..I „(| Th. r,P,l y.„l p|,„M ill S,n O.brM | vwr. „l.l, ,„,1 Wr 
forty-siji persona, twenty of whom worocontinued it,000 vinca. It was called l'o..i darwv »;•), 
under ton year* of age. Of the ..Vatin, “ Mother Vineyard," and from it; with hardly • nmul, 
two w«r* Spftninrds, sprung tlm many vineyard* throughout tho t^cupo d. 
childn 
twclvo adult innh 
one a native of ( liinn, the other nine • .1 
Koine one of the following places-. Sjm.lou, 
Sonora, or Lower California. 
e the neuter of the town, a parallel" 
. puNlo «i|uare, anil 
«•*to the Cathedral | iariil* 
r of our Angt I?.’ j organization win sustained by compnU,..,, 
i three aides of this j Ilia vigorous rule resulted in the produo 
* laid out # 
Ktnb 
I'ndio doin' M.riu Salvedeft brought this' V,. . . *, , 
miasio" to tl,„ zenith of It* proaperity.! “ t » ur f.adv. 
11*- instituted a ihorruigli system of lm- iceuni. ,i 
pnneluent and •irtiRtlioiitnlioii. Everything of S. ithcm Cabf. 
Ilia rule wan organized, and this'of tin Talc, l»a» 
Which will h 
gram 
is now our plnr.n, nj 
“Church of the I,a 
DweUinga were built ---„ --„ 
i.U/a ; half tho lemaimngB.dr was designed In.n r,| large orchard* am) vineyard#, and 
for public budding#, and the other half the esoroi.c of almost own useful industry ,.„.f 
opon apace ; ||,, ,i, , (| ,G., 
a short diaUrten from the pi***, and lasli being a common mode of it™, 
on the low grounds along Mm rivur, thirty In .Innuarv, |s..i*>, Manuel Wu-n,. ‘ 
* e di w#ro U "‘ out ,of cultivation, and I then Govwnor uf tJslifwmia, abdicated, and' I city. 
tin* < 
The r it 
ostanaiv® nyi 
igatinn ditches 
an in oiveratim 
an doubled 
