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hile hunting £or aomethil'l_g entirely different .

________ a r>robablo d1vialon .into .rire e ~ rtt.-•:nts, . e

l · 1e, p1•ob bly the raiu d· Woll, in tho south .. ea.st 001-ner ol uhicll wi s t

kiln wh re t.ue til was probtbJ.y bakei;l, ., 1cl adjoi 1i:n.3 which w•ia_ cts.otl.or

adobe store roomo ·

.A .Pl~ ot nco11st:t7ttotion, simil 1:r to tllut at R...veraide, )las

dug tl_ e 1.Ue floor out ~nd pr•,ctioal¾V ,; -ocked tho ·truoture in c-i futile

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ei'fort to i~d the tr a ure ne archaeologist~ had 1 cated Ullde- he
tiled floors .... · -vident ,y flgu.ring that., a~ the dig er inv riabl · sto:pped

ove1· the- tiles to d isc.ourago a.uyone trom stoaling thei. bofo:-...,, , .1.eavir i,,

there !ilWH have be .n . i ss ion gold hiddcm ~.1 • the · .. - , .

that 11 Oalifo. :n1a .t.ndio s ,ere stone af~t¾ 1_100· \le, -~uhout use, llOStm~s-

ion or iU101:lodge o:e :.iet ... l, t}1at the £hat rol uisoove~. ?ere l.n 1842 ...
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and that the ission lia.d been secularized in 1834, o1gbt · eb .. :s before

th tu.ate,.

The site of ~1e bUiJ..ding was o:n tk e projoctin;:;

the creek e s+ie:rly fr01. 'd'Jtaio .Tuncuon, a. l: ig'l elbo~, 01·

Up to l804t the Valley b. d suff :;re,l little c ~

was ti aligh in.fiLration of .~iusion :rJ.dia:u l toot r

fro . th liss io11 to be a o tr·ditioual cu tou1a.