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Updated: May 22, 2025
If you would enjoy that fine hospitality which gives gladly to strangers and to friends alike of its poverty or plenty, and for the giving asks nothing in return, you should seek the far frontiers; but if you would see hospitality glorified into something more than a simple virtue, then you should find, if you can, one of the old-time haciendas that were the pride of early California.
The trip lasted three hours and involved three changes of mules at stations, where we found all the excitement and bustle of a true railroad station. The country was, at first, rolling, with a sparse growth of yuccas, many of which were exceptionally large and fine. On the hills were occasional haciendas.
The consumptions of the last year, 1849, amount to $544,194, notwithstanding which the notices omit the returns of various mines, haciendas, furnaces, and water-mills.
Lobarto and his gang were run off so quick that he had to cache almost everything but the hard cash he had with him. He had raided two churches in Mexico and plundered several haciendas before coming up from the Border, so people say." "Why don't you ranch folks go and dig up his loot?" demanded Bess, wide-eyed. "Well," laughed Rhoda, "we don't know where it is cached.
The other does so frequently making havoc among the flocks of sheep, and even attacking the cattle and horses of the haciendas. The ursus frugilegus will give battle even to man himself when baited, or rendered furious by being chased. Both these species are supposed to be confined to the Chilian and Peruvian Andes. This is an erroneous supposition.
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