“In 1817 or 1818 the Company [Santa Barbara’s presidio] established the rancho of San Julian as a source of meat and income for the soldiers. The padres granted the land provisionally, to be returned when the supplies should begin to come regularly… The company’s rancho of San Julian was a prosperous institution down to 1826 at least. It not only kept the troops supplied with meat and paid its expenses, but furnished $350 to buy an organ for the chapel, and left a cash balance of $940, besides 2,221 head of cattle.” H. H. Bancroft, History of California, vol. ii, 1801–1824, pp. 362, 574