ABOUT THE BAY. 9
In the rear of the town, which extends only be- tween California and Vallejo streets to Powell on the west, from the direction of the Lone Mountain and beyond, comes a spur of the Coast Range, tipped by the Papas Peaks. To either side diverges a trail, one toward the inlet of the bay, where is the presidio enclosure, with its low adobe buildings, and to which the new American occupants have added frame houses, and earthworks with ordnance superior to the blatant muzzles of yore. Two miles to the south, beyond the sand hills, lies Mission Dolores, its dilapidated walls marked by darkened tile roofs, scantily relieved by clumps of trees and shrubs. The cheerless stone fences now enclose winter's verdure, and beyond the eddying creek, which flows through the adjoining fields, the sandy waste expands into inviting pasture, partly covered by the Kincon farm and government reserve.®
The opposite shores of the bay present a most beau- tiful park-like expanse, the native lawn, brilliant with flowers, and dotted by eastward-bending oaks, watered by the creeks of Alameda, San Lorenzo, San Leandro, and their tributaries, and enclosed by the spurs of the Diablo mountains. It had early attracted settlers, whose grants now cover the entire ground. The first to occupy there was the Mission San Jos^, famed for its orchards and vineyards,® and now counting among its tenants and settlers James F. Reed, Perry Mor- rison, Earl Marshall, and John M. Horner. ^^ Below are the ranchos of Agua Caliente and Los Tularcitos ; and above, Potrero de los Cerritos;" while behind, among encircling hills, is the valley of San Jos^, the pathway to the Sacramento, and through which runs
- Padre P. Saotillaa, who afterward became conspicTioua as a claimant to
the miasion groand, was iu charge at Dolores. The Raucho Punta de Lobos of B. Diaz extended to the north-west.
- In charge of Padre EeaL The claim of Alvarado and Pico to the soil was
later re jected.
^'The latter a Mormon, living with his wife at the present Washington Comers, and subsequently prominent.
^ The former two square leagues in extent, and transferred by A. Sufiol to F. Hignera; the latter three leagues, and held by A. Alviso and T. Pacheco.
