Io6 "" HISTORY OF PASADKNA. 



DIVISION TWO-COLONIAL. 



CHAPTER V. 



Origin of Pasadena — The "Indiana Colony" scheme, and its collapse. — D. M. 

 Berry "spies out" Rancho San Pasqual. — Origin of the "San Gabriel Orange 

 Grove Association." — How its members chose their lots, and where. — Success of 

 the colony.— Anniversary picnic— First Citrus Fair. — First premiums won twice 

 at Los Angeles. — The Lake Vineyard Colony started. — Its lands and first settlers. 

 — The colony water ditch. 



THE INDIANA COLONY. 



Sometime in the winter of 1872-73, some friends were together one 

 Sunday at the home of Dr. T. B. EUiott, in Indianapolis, Ind. It had 

 been a severe winter, and as usual the rigors and hardships of the season 

 were among the topics of conversation. Mrs. Elliott remarked that they 

 had better all emigrate to California, and said, " Pvi goi?ig, anyway, if nobody 

 else does.'" This was taken as a joke at first ; but it seemed to stick like a 

 seed of burr clover, for it very soon thereafter became a matter of serious 

 consideration among those friends ; and by May they had matured a scheme 

 to form an association called the '' California Colony of Indiana." The 

 first formal meeting in regard to the matter was held at the office of Berry & 

 Elliott in Indianapolis, there being present Dr. T. B. Elliott, D. M. Berry, 

 John H. Baker, J. M. Matthews, and Gen. Nathan Kimball. A circular 

 was issited, giving elaborate details of the plan, which was to send certain 

 pioneers to " spy out the land," select a tract " well timbered, well watered, 

 and adapted to the culture of citrus fruits " — and which could be bought 

 for about $3 per acre. These pioneers were to go ahead and sow wheat, 

 1000 acres, plant hedge fences, start nurseries, plant vineyards, set out 

 orange groves and other fruits, provide irrigation facilities, etc., — all so 

 easily done on paper, and so hard to do on land. And where were the 

 funds to carry forward all this magnitude of rugged endeavor ? The circu- 

 lar makes answer thus : 



" To create a fund to meet these expenses, assessments will be made on 

 each member, as follows : June t, 1873, %\o ; July i, 1873, $^0 \ August 

 I. 1S73. $10; September i, 1873, $10 -total $40; and thereafter, on the 

 first day of each month an as.ses.sment of like amount, or if found necessary, 

 $12.50 per month will be made." 



The circular was signed — 



T. B. Elliott, President. Calvin Fletcher, Genl. Agent. 



J. M. Matthews, Secretary. John H. Baker. 



Hon. J. H. Ruddell, Trea.surer. D. M. Berry. 



In August, a committee consisting of Gen. Nathan Kimball, Berry, 

 Baker, and a surveyor named Albert Ruxton, were dispatched to California 



