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Book Title: A Memorial And Biographical History Of The Counties Of Santa Barbara, Ventura, And San Luis Obispo

THE HALEY SURVEY.

  The city of Santa Barbara was laid out into streets and blocks in 1851, when
the town council directed Captain Salisbury Haley to make a survey and a map of
the town. The intention was to have each block 150 yards square, and each street
sixty feet wide, except State and Carrillo streets, which were to be eighty feet
wide. At that time the value of land was not great, and the surveyor gave good
measure, and that not always exact. The streets were straight, and cut each
other at right angles, but the blocks were not all alike. In the year 1871 most
of the old Haley stakes set to make the survey, had disappeared, and the council
instructed the town surveyor, James L. Barker, to retrace the Haley survey, and
this retracing was adopted by ordinance, and this confirmed or ratified by the
Legislature. There was, however, some contention for the exact measuring of the
blocks, which had the effect of changing the location of most of the streets.
Near State and Carrillo streets, this difference is but a foot or two, but near
the outskirts of the city, it amounts to as much as ten or twelve feet in one
direction, and is about forty feet in the other.

  Subsequent to the Barker survey, W. H. Norway was authorized to make another
survey, beginning at the initial point, and making the blocks all similar, of
the size before stated. The resulting discrepancies are the cause of litigations
still pending and unadjusted. There are numbered on the map 369 whole blocks,
ten more fractionally numbered, and still more fractional blocks not numbered.
The blocks being 450 feet square, ten of them are reckoned as making a mile. The
nomenclature of the streets is highly suggestive of the city's picturesque early
history, many of whose events are thus commemorated.

  As elsewhere seen, no less than three of the streets take their names from the
episode of "The Lost Cannon." The first street at the northeast of the city is
called San Buenaventura, from the then village of that name, thirty miles away,
which was the nearest to this town when the street was christened; Pitos street
was thus named because there grew the reeds from which were made pitos (flutes
or whistles); Punta Gorda, from its running into a cape-like bluff; Yudio
Muerto, from some Indian found dead thereabouts; Cacique, from the title of the
tribal chiefs of the Indians; Yanonali, from the name of a famous old Indian
chief who lived there; Montecito, from its leading to the beautiful valley
bearing that name. Carpenteria street, too, was named from its running the route
to the present settlement of Carpenteria, twelve miles east of this city; and
this spot in its turn took the name (Carpenter Shop) from the presence near its
creek of a shop of that sort. Gutierrez street was so called after Don Octaviano
Gutierrez, a noted member of the town council. Haley street was named after
Salisbury Haley, who made the famous "Haley Survey" in 1850; and Cota, Ortega,
and de la Guerra streets after the respective families of these names. Carrillo
took its name from Don Joaquin Carrillo, the District Judge, whose house fronted
upon it; Figueroa was named after Jose Figueroa, Governor of California during
the Mexican rule; his bones lie in the vault of the Mission church here.
Micheltorena for Manuel Micheltorena, Governor in 1842; Arellaga from Jose
Joaquin Arellaga, Governor in 1792-'94; Victoria for Manuel Victoria, Governor
of this department in 1831; Sola from Vicente Sola, Governor from 1815 to 1823.
Anapanau was named for an Indian chieftain who held sway from Santa Ynes to San
Fernando; Valerio for a renowned Indian robber who dwelt in a cave in the Santa
Ynes mountains; Yslay comes from the fruit of a tree used as food by the
Indians. Pedregoso means stony, and. the street is thus called because cut
through by the creek named Arroyo Pedregoso (Stony Gulch). Mission street takes
its name from its proximity to the mission of Santa Barbara. Of the streets
which run southeast and northwest, Salinas was so called because it runs into a
salt sink or pond; Canada, from its running into a ravine; Soledad (a solitude),
because that part of the town was uninhabited and solitary when the name was
applied to it. Voluntario (volunteer), because it runs into the hill whereon was
encamped Fremont's volunteer battalion; Alisos (sycamores), from the trees of
that variety there growing; Milpas (sowed fields), from the sowing patches of
the Indians in that locality; Nopal, from the prickly-pear cactus there growing
in abundance; Quarentena, because at its foot some vessels were put into
quarantine; Salsipuedes ("Get out if you can"), from the gulches and ravines
crossed by it, which rendered travel on this street a serious business. To Canal
street was given the name from its being the first on that side extended to the
channel; Laguna, because it traverses a system of lagoons; Jardines, or Garden,
street is so named for that it cuts through the gardens of Captain de la Guerra
and others. Santa Barbara street has a name of obvious origin. Anacapa street
points toward the island of that name. State, the principal street, takes its
name from the commonwealth of California. Chapala was so named in honor of a
town and a lake near Guadalaxara, Mexico, from which came some of the early
emigrants to Santa Barbara. De la Vina, or Vineyard street, was laid out through
a vineyard planted in 1802 by Governor Goycoschea. Banos (Baths) street was so
called from its leading to that part of the beach most used for bathing.
Castillo or Castle street led to the hill on which stood an old Spanish fort,
mounted with cannon. Rancheria comes from a cluster of Indian tents that formed
a native village at that point. San Pascual street commemorates the field of a
battle fought between the American forces and the Californians in 1846. San
Andres (Saint Andrew) is claimed to honor Andres Pico, who figured conspicuously
in that battle. Chino street is said also to derive its name from the Chino
Rancho, in that same district. Gillespie street was named from
Lieutenant-afterwards Captain-Gillespie, who figured in the American occupation;
and Robbins street took its name from Captain Robbins, who owned the Rancho Los
Positas, to which this street extends.

  The situation of Santa Barbara is particularly favorable for effective sewage,
the slope of State street being at no point less than nineteen feet in the mile.
This street is sewered throughout, starting with eight-inch pipe and terminating
with twelve-inch. This line, which is two miles long, is terra-cotta to the
wharf, whence it is iron pipe, extending 1,000 feet into the sea. Chapala street
is sewered from Gutierrez to Yslay, a distance of fifteen blocks; and de la Vina
has three blocks of sewer, and Pedregosa also is sewered from Santa Barbara to
State street. All this is after the Waring system.

  From State street run two storm conduits, extending in two directions, to the
creek and to the Estero; their cost was $20,000.

  The city has a Eire Department, partly paid and partly volunteer, comprising
one steam and one hand engine, two hose-carts with 2,000 feet of hose, and one
hook and ladder company. The quarters are in the City Hall building. The number
of members is about thirty. The fire alarms are given according to wards.

  The watering of streets is provided for with four water-carts, and also a
patent street-sweeping machine operates on State street.

  Santa Barbara contains, besides the institutions and practitioners elsewhere
mentioned, six large hotels, three surveyors, about twenty private
boarding-houses, three restaurants, eight dry-goods houses, twenty grocery and
general merchandise stores, three feed stores, two nurseries, one florist, one
tea and coffee store, two feed, lumber and planing mills, three fruit stores,
three confectionery stores, five bakeries, two fish dealers, seven meat markets,
three wholesale liquor houses, twenty-one saloons, four hardware stores, five
drug stores, one foundry, four furniture and upholstery shops, three second-hand
stores, four tailor shops, two men's clothing stores, four shoe stores, three
stationers, two curiosity and shell stores, two Chinese fancy goods stores,
eight or ten Chinese general merchandise shops, one crockery store, four
milliners, five jewelry stores, seventeen feed and livery stables, four house
decorators, six painters, eight carpenters, nine blacksmith and carriage shops,
eight barbers, four photographers, seventeen insurance and real-estate offices,
one skating rink, one theater building, one gas company, one ice company (stock
imported from Truckee), four saddle, harness and leather goods shops, one
luggage transfer company, four tobacconists, and numerous gurneys, hacks,
omnibuses, etc.

  The Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Association, mainly composed of ladies,
have contracted for a cottage hospital building, to cost when completed $12,000
to $15,000. The contract was made in November, 1889, and the work as thus far
completed comprises a two-story building with attic, ninety-one feet front, in
which twenty-five or thirty patients could be accommodated, besides the offices,
etc. The outlay thus far, for grading, bridge (across irrigating ditch),
building, etc., has been $7,735.29. The funds have been raised partly by
donations, partly by a local Trades' Carnival.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 
OF THE COUNTIES OF
Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California

Illustrated

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Prospective Future; with Profuse illustrations of its Beautiful Scenery,
Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and
Biographical Mention of  many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of
to-day,

BY MRS. YDA ADDIS STORKE.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors -will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
descendants."—Macaulay.

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1891.

Barlow-Sinclair Printing Co., Chicago.


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