CALIFORNIA (MISSION OF ST. TURIBIUS: LAKE CO.)
"What Bishop O'Connell and myself contemplated is to have St. Turibius' a mission for the spiritual benefit of the Indians, where, untrammeled by civil agencies, they may have a home and Protector and Spiritual Guide to save their souls. It is for that purpose that we bought the farm and will buy more land if necessary, said property to be used principally for the benefit of the Indians and to be worked at partially by them, directed when necessary by some good farmer or Brother . . . . . . ." Sorin, 1881