78 HISTORY OF PASADENA, 



estimated as 30 acres, opposite what is now the junction of West Columbia 

 street and Arroyo Drive. There, in 1875-76, Beaudry, and a man named 

 Carson (son of Gen. Fremont's famous and faithful scout, Kit Carson), 

 worked a shaft into the hill or Arroyo bank 200 feet, seeking for a coal mine. 

 They found carbonaceous shale and a few pockets of lignite, or possibly 

 indurated asphaltum, but no true vein of coal. 



In October, 1873, Griffin and Wilson employed Wm. P. Reynolds to 

 survey the remainder of the Rancho into four separate parcels marked as 

 tracts Nos. i, 2, 3 and 4, and to make a map of the whole. Tract No. i 

 contained 2,576.35 acres. No. 2 contained 1,366.03 acres. No. 3 con- 

 tained 693 acres. No. 4 contained also 693 acres. Total 5,328.38 acres. 



On December 18, 1873, Griffin and Wilson made an agreement of par- 

 tition, with said Reynolds' map attached as a part of the agreement [Book 

 27, p. 229], by which Griffin took tracts Nos. i, 3 and 4 for his share, and 

 Wilson took tract No. 2 for his share of the now completely broken up old 

 ranch. The right to burn lime at the kilns on tract No. i (I^incoln Park 

 region) was reserved to Wilson, and an equal share of the waters of the 

 Thibbet's Springs on tract No. 2 was allotted to each party. Thus it ex- 

 hibits that Wilson took 1,366 acres for his share, and left Griffin 3,962.35 

 acres. But this apparent disproportion was made up in the deed by Griffin 

 to Wilson, September 23, 1870, of a body of choice oak timber land, sur- 

 veyed by J. M. Baldwin, in August, 1870, lying east of this latter tract No. 

 2 (Fair Oaks avenue being now on its line), and south of the Grogan tract. 



On December 26, 1873, John S. Griffin deeded to Thomas F. Croft 

 [Book 27, p. 251] all of the partition tract No. i as marked on the Rey- 

 nolds' map, containing 2,576.35 acres ; and another parcel of land described 

 by metes and bounds, and containing 1.357 acres ; total, 3,933.35 acres, with 

 all waters arising on these lands, or otherwise pertaining to them. Con- 

 sideration, $25,000. 



The San Gabriel Orange Grove Association (commonly called " Indiana 

 colony") had been organized Nov\ 13, 1873, and had been negotiating for 

 the purchase of this body of land from Dr. Griffin, with Judge Eaton acting 

 as his agent. At this time [November 13] Griffin and Wilson still owned 

 the land jointly. Griffin was anxious to sell out, but Wilson was not, and 

 some difficulty arose between them in regard to it. This caused delay, and 

 for awhile threatened to break up the colony project entirely. Mr. Croft 

 was one of the original incorporators and trustees of the colony association ; 

 and at this critical time he went to Wilmington [December 13] to confer 

 with Phineas Banning and B. D. Wilson, and succeeded in bringing about 

 an understanding which finally resulted in the agreement of partition between 

 Wilson and Griffin, dated December 18, 1873, as above cited. This enabled 

 Griffin to go on and complete the sale which he desired to make. But now 

 the colony people could not at once raise the amount of money necessary to 



