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the 701s. Mrs. Emma Cordell and her husband lived there, 1879- <br />1881, when they managed a dairy for Mr. Bates. She says that <br />Mr. Bates put in redwood floors and otherwise improved it so <br />as to make it very comfortable. It served as residence for <br />some years afterward, then it was allowed to decay. It is <br />remembered by Ernest Ross as ruined walls about 1900. A. T. <br />Bates is remembered as a 149er and pioneer in this county, a <br />tall, spare, be -whiskered man with many a tale of frontier <br />days. Southeast of "El Refugio" on the map is "Cogate" Sepul- <br />veda which was probably the adobe home of Andronica Sepulveda, <br />son of Don Jose. <br />This region had no running streams in ordinary seasons <br />but was dotted with fine springs of good water sufficient for <br />the cattle and for domestic use. Very little farming was <br />carried on and the scant crops were dependent upon the moist <br />soil rather than rainfall or irrigation. <br />With regard to origin this group might well be called <br />Jose Antonio Yorba, Group No. 2. <br />R <br />WPA-Orange County Historical Research Project #3105 <br />Santa Ana, California <br />1936 KRM <br />Rn <br />