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Initially, there was tension between the people of the Mission and those in the nearby Pueblo de San Jose over disputed ownership rights of land and water.

The tension was relieved when a road, the Alameda, was built by two hundred Indians to link the communities together.

On Sundays, people from San Jose would come to the Mission for services, until the building of St. Joseph's Church in 1803.

In that year, the mission of Santa Clara reported an Indian population of 1, 271.

In the same tabular report, its resident priest estimated that 5, 000 cattle, 7, 000 sheep, 2, 200 horses and 30 mules were on mission lands, while about 3, 000 fanegas of grain ( some 220 pounds each of wheat, barley or corn ) had been harvested.