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"protested vigorously and successfully agaiI_1st the eranting of

Camulos Rancho to one Francisco Avila."

So 1 die rs a t th e Pres id i o o f S ant a n a r b a r a w c re in t 11 e

habit of·asking Mission San Fernando for various kinds of suppli~s.

On Scptefilber of 1821 Father Ibarra at San Fernando gave the repl~
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to_Captain Jose de la Guerra of Santa Barbara when he asked for

corn: ."I just came from the Rancho de San Francisco. Things are

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as I said. There are only sixty or seventy fanegas. Rabbits and

hares and worms have done dar.1age to the crop." Later in the month

he n~tified de la Guerra that fifteen pack mules would leave the
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Rancho de San· Francisco with thirty fanegas of corn for San.

Buenaventura, to be-forwarded to the Santa Barbara presidio. When

asked in 1822 for twenty-five pairs of shoes, Father Ibarra replied

that they would be made. To a request in 1825 for $300 worth of soap,

he said they had ~nly thirty or forty dollars worth, for none had

been m2de during the y~ar. The good father felt that the soldiers·
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at Santa Barbara ought to work and raise grain and not live on the

toil of the neophytes, especially when there was a shortc1ge of Indi&1

labor, the Indians coming and. going as they plensed.

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