Of possible interest to NORRIS descendants, from commentary following B.D. Wilson's report on the Indians, 1852, at Library of Congress website: ARRIVAL OF COL. NORRIS Col. Norris arrived in town this week from the desert by way of Turner's Pass, having completed his contract for surveying the government lands. He brings us favorable intelligence from the Tejon.... At the Tejon, after a month of very warm and dry weather, a rain, accompanied with thunder, lightening, hail and snow, on the mountains, and severe cold, had put a very improving face upon all things. The crops look well, and promise great abundance. There are some twelve hundred Indians at the reservation. The Colonel reports every thing well and prosperous, and gives much praise to Lieutenant Beale and his employees for their energy and perseverance in their labors. [Los Angeles Star , May 6, 1854.] http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbk:@field(DOCID+@lit(C051D0002) ):