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Avoid right-hand road 123.0.
Right at 123.0 is Route 36 to Bakersfield.
131.3 8.4 Atascadero,* Administration Bldg, on right. Straight thru.
HOTELS—Atascadero Inn & Camp Grand.
Thru Templeton 136.3. Same thorofare becomes Spring St.
141.7 10.4 PASO ROBLES,* Spring & 12th Sts., park on right.
HOTELS—Taylor Hotel, on the State highway, centrally located.
GARAGES—Paso Robles Garage, highway opposite Taylor Hotel
Straight ahead is Route 393 to Salinas.
Note (a) Route 392—Option via Los Olivos, Cal.—15.9 m.
Reverse Note (a) on Route 30.
Via Los Olivos. Dirt and gravel roads.
49.6
37.6 37.5 Prominent right-hand road; turn right. Cross RR 44.0.
44.9 7.4 Solvang, Mission Santa Ynez* on right. Turn right.
HOTELS— Buell Tavern, corner State highway & Lompoc Rd.
__ GARAGES— Buell Garage, corner State highway & Lompoc Rd.
45.6 0.6 4-corners, farm on far right; turn left.
Avoid right-hand diagonal road 48 3
49.6 4.0 Right-hand road; turn right.
0.1 End of road; turn left.
50.5 0.9 Los Olivos, 4-corners, windmill and water tank on right.
HOTELS— Mattel’s Tavern, Opp. Ry. Sta.
Turn left along RR, passing tavern on left. Avoid right-hand road across RR
50.9. Cross RRs 51.7-52.7.
53.4 2.9 End of road; turn right and follow Route 392 from mileage 48.8 balance of wav
to Paso Robles.
•Atascadero, Cal., is an interesting and go to Santa Barbara or La Purisima, several
splendid example of what can be done in this leagues distant, for them.
part of the country in the way of develop- Twenty-seven children were immediately
ment. It covers a strip of land some 12 miles baptized and the building of a church com-
wide and 40 miles long, and numbers among menced. This was a simple structure roofed
with tile and was
its colonists persons from all parts of the speedily completed, but
the earthquake of 1812 caused the partial col-
United States. Just a few years ago it was an
lapse of the structure, ruined the roof, cracked
untrodden wilderness inhabited only by cattle,
the walls and destroyed several buildings
with but a single dirt road and a single house
near by. The padres, with their usual daunt-
in its entire expanse. A touring information
less perseverance, at once began the building
bureau is maintained here.
of a new church constructed of brick and
‘Paso Robles Hot Springs, Cal. (pop. 1,450, adobe, which was completed in 1817 and is the
alt. 720 ft.), situated in the foothills of the one the tourist still sees. On one side were
beautiful Santa Lucia mountains in a great the orchards and houses and on the other
natural park of live oaks, is famous as a wa-
Indian houses and the huts. In front was
tering place. It is an all the year round re- the bath and laundry reservoir.
sort and offers every opportunity for all the The mission was abandoned about 1850 and
sports and life out-of-doors conducive to the building was used by the civil authorities
health, pleasure and happiness. The benefi- as jail, blacksmith shop, or for whatever pur-
cent waters of these springs were drunk by
pose best suited their convenience. Thru the
the Indians before California history began efforts of Father Alexander Arbuckle some
and believed by them to be blessed by the
portions of the structure have been restored,
Great Spirit. Later, with the coming of the but the earthquake of 1906 caused consider-
Padres, the fame of the healing springs of the
able damage, which has not yet been repaired
Pass of the Oaks became more widely known for lack of funds. The bell tower and several
and drew the natives from all the country to of the buttresses crumbled away during
bathe in the magic waters. spring rains in 1911. These have been
*The Mission Santa Ynez is situated at replaced with concrete, and the bells, which
Calahuasa, near Los Olivos, in the valley of fortunately were not injured, have been re-
the Santa Ynez river, about 30 miles from its hung and are still used.
mouth and about 35 miles from Santa Barbara. The large reservoir almost in front of the
It is away from the main lines of travel, but church entrance was for the use of the padres.
this has been to its advantage, for it has suf- It is built of burnt brick and is 20 feet long
fered less from vandal tourists and is a real and 8 feet wide. It is at the bottom of a
museum of historical and ecclesiastical ob- “sunk enclosure,” also of burnt brick and 60
jects. Santa Ynez was founded by Padre feet long by 30 feet wide and rising 6 feet
Presidente Tapis, September
17, 1804, making above the reservoir proper. A sloping pas-
it the first mission founded in the nineteenth sage of burnt brick leads down to the reser-
century. It was not comprehended in the voir. Connected with this reservoir by a
original plan for California missions, but cement pipe 660 feet long and laid under-
ground is another reservoir 40 feet long and
founded in response to a petition for a mission
presented by a colony of neophytes who had 8 feet wide and nearly 6 feet deep, which
settled in the locality several years before supplied the Indian village with water. The
and who desired the benefits of a mission supply of water for both reservoirs was
and priestly services without being obliged to brought from the mountains in flumes where