It is between the two missions of Santiago and Todos Santos, distant from it about twelve leagues and from Santiago about eighteen.
It was erected upon the arrival of the visitator, who for this purpose bought on behalf of the king the farmhouse of Don Manuel de Ocio, which has its chapel, and added some houses for the dependents of the royal service, and some individuals did the same, although few . From the beginning of its erection they occupied themselves in collecting metals, although it was not passed to the foundation until the arrival of Señor Armona. And as I have heard from a very intelligent man in the faculty, they are of very short law, which are not paid for, rather they have caused extraordinary expenses.
It is a common voice of all that said mines have no account whatsoever and I believe that the news will have already reached the ears of the most illustrious Mr. Visitor General, because the order of said gentleman came, dated December immediately, so that all the Indians of the provinces from Sinaloa and Sonora who had brought them to work in said mines, they are given a license, and even that they are ordered to go to their respective towns, which has already been published in said Santa Ana real.
Likewise, they have assured me that there was order so that everything belonging to the mining branch is sold, as well as that the mines are sold, finding someone who buys them, and that they are given to whoever can work them; I infer that the mines have not been as they initially thought and published. And removing the king's account workers, the said royal can be considered extinct, and his priest without the congrue of the daily weight that has been given to him since his collation from the mining branch, and he will not have more parishioners than a few Few neighbors of two realitos that there are in the vicinity called San Antonio and El Oro, which before the arrival of the visitator, being more in number, were administered by the missionary father of Todos Santos and are unable to maintain a cure.
Near this point and the needs that they suffer in said real, Father Ramos will be able to inform more individually, as his mission has been helping him at all times. This real is distant from the beach of the Gulf about seven leagues a little more, and from the place where it is, through a pass, you can see the beach or island of Cerralvo.
