1883 (1882) (1884) (1880-1890) (1890-1900) Table of Contents
Amanda Schacter (ed.) Santa Monica Landmarks Santa Monica Landmarks Commission, 1990, 1883 See Text
Grant H. Smith The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920, Geology and Mining Series No. 37, University of Nevada Bulletin: Reno, Nevada, vol. XXXVII. 1 July 1943, no. 3, (revised 1966), Ninth printing, 1980. 305pp., 1883, 1880s See Text
Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182pp., 1883 See Text
Documents
Ingersoll's Century History Santa Monica Bay Cities (Being Book Number Two of Ingersoll's Century Series of California Local History Annals), 1908, 1908a, 1883
[p. 156] Chapter II Laying the Foundations. 1870-1880.
" . . . [p. 156] This [Juan Bernard] wharf which was built [in the late 1870s] from the foot of Strand street was intended to be fifteen hundred feet, but was not completed. A large warehouse was built, which was planned to be complete for commercial purposes, but the S.P. forbade the steamers to land here, and the fiat was obeyed. No boat ever unloaded there, and the wharf was finally carried out by a severe storm about 1883 and the timber used for other purposes.
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[p. 269] Chapter VII Public Institutions: Schools
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[p. 269] School Trustees of Santa Monica
[p. 288] Chapter VIII Churches and Societies: Methodist Church
[p. 328] Chapter XI Venice of America and Its Founder
[p. 328] In 1883, [Abbot Kinney] was appointed a commissioner to serve with Helen Hunt Jackson in an investigation into the conditions of the Mission Indians of Southern California. After several months of travel and personal examination of the various reservations and their people, Mr. Kinney prepared a report to the government, advising the breaking up of the reservation system and the use of common-sense methods in the treatment of these miserable and helpless remmnants of the first occupants of our country. It was during this period that Mrs. Jackson gathered much of the material used in the construction of Ramona and in her articles on the Missions and the Mission Indians.
Amanda Schacter (ed.) Santa Monica Landmarks Santa Monica Landmarks Commission, 1990, 1883
"This building, a simplified variation of a Gothic Revival style, was the first church building erected in Santa Monica. The site was donated by the Santa Monica Land Company, the development company of Santa Monica founder John P. Jones. Located originally at Sixth and Arizona, in 1883 it was moved two blocks west to the southwest corner of Fourth and Arizona. At that time a bell tower was added. In 1899, the church was moved to Hill and Lake Streets and occupied by the Ocean Park Methodist-Episcopal Church. Lake Street became Washington Boulevard, and is now Second Street. In 1923, the old church was sold to the Stephen Jackson Women's Relief Corps, No. 124 and was called Patriotic Hall. In 1971, it became a private residence."
Grant H. Smith The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920, Geology and Mining Series No. 37, University of Nevada Bulletin: Reno, Nevada, vol. XXXVII. 1 July 1943, no. 3, (revised 1966), Ninth printing, 1980. 305pp., 1883, 1880s
[p. 249] Chapter XXV Fire in the Stopes-Low-Grade Operations in the Bonanza Mines-The Comstock Milling Monopoly-The Last Washoe Process Mill-Losses in Tailings-Tailings Reworked
[p. 250] Low-grade Operations in the Bonanza Mines
[p. 250] "In 1883 Senator J.P. Jones, who had been mining low-grade ores from the old stopes of the Crown Point and the Belcher for three years (as a lessee) [Jone leases his old mine (s) in 1880] was given a lease on the Con. Virginia stopes from the 1550 level upward under an agreement to pay a royalty of 50 cents a ton for every ton milled. All of the openings into the stopes had been sealed since the fire broke out in 1881 and it was stipulated that he should not begin operations until the stopes could be entered. [Footnote: "When the fire burned out the millions of feet of timbers which had been packed into the stopes as the ore was removed, the whole country caved downward to fill the vacancy. The cave extended far up on the hillside back of the town leaving a long crack like an earthquake slip. So great was the pressure in the stopes that pieces of old 14-inch timbers were compressed to 6 and even 4 inches and resembled petrified wood. The town itself slid downward a little, but without damage except to brick buildings." Nevada Historical Magazine for 1911-1912.]
Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182pp., 1883
"On June 8, 1883, the Decree of Partition was filed giving the allotments. Robert Baker received 2,112.80 acres, including what is now the Riviera, upper Santa Monica Canyon, Rustic and Temescal canyons and the intervening mesa which would become the heart of Pacific Palisades.
"Each of the five surviving heirs of Francisco Marquez . . . received three allotments-a large parcel of agricultural land on the western mesas, several acres in lower Santa Monica Canyon for a homesite and crops, and a small parcel at the mouth of the canyon for commercial use . . . approximately 4,543 acres.
"By 1907 all of the large agricultural parcels had been sold. . . ." p.12