SANTA CRUZ Lasuen found matters far easier for him in the founding of Missions than did Serra in his later years.

The viceroy agreed to pay $1000 each for the expenses of the Missions of Santa Cruz and La Soledad, and $200 each for the traveling expenses of the four missionaries needed.

April 1, 1790, the guardian sent provisions and tools for Santa Cruz to the value of $1021.

Lasuen delayed the founding for awhile, however, as the needful church ornaments were not at hand; but as the viceroy promised them and ordered him to go ahead by borrowing the needed articles from the other Missions, Lasuen proceeded to the founding, as I have already related.
At the end of the year 1791 the neophytes numbered 84.

In 1796 the highest mark was reached with 523.