DIVISION TWO COLONIAL. Ill 



the colony by B. D. Wilson. This was sold off in parcels ; and finally the 

 last 900 acres of it (without water) was sold in 1882 to Woodbury Brothers 

 from Marshalltown, Iowa, for $5 per acre. It is now known as Altadena. 

 1800 acres of the water-rights land were subdivided ; and 800 acres were 

 Arroyo and hill lands, including reserved water-bearing lands^ reservoir 

 sites, etc. 



The name Pasadena was oflScially adopted April 22, 1875. See full 

 account of it in chapter 18. 



Mrs. Jeannie C. Carr in her contribution to the I^ewis " History of lyos 

 Angeles County," published in 1889, speaking of the first apportionment of 

 the colony lands, says : 



" Nearly all had a choice spot in view, and it was an anxious moment 

 when, the lovely landscape at their feet, and the maps outspread, the bid- 

 ding was about to begin. Mr. Fletcher moved that the owners of a .single 

 share be first invited to make their selections. And such was the diversity 

 of soil, location and topography that each of the twenty-seven stockholders 

 secured his chosen homestead, without interfering with that of his neigh- 

 bor. * * It was a singular fact that there was not a professional and 

 hardly a practical horticulturist or farmer among them ; but the spell of the 

 neighboring orchards and vineyards soon transformed them into enthusiastic 

 culturists of the orange and the vine. The worn-out physician found the 

 fountain of youth in the pure California sunshine, which turned his grapes 

 into delicious raisins. In the first nine years of the history of the settle- 

 ment, not a single criminal prosecution occurred among a population of a 

 thousand souls, and quarrels were unknown. Lawyers issued writs of 

 ejectment to gophers and burrowing squirrels, of which there was no lack." 



FIRST REUNION PIC-NIC OF THE COLONY. 



On their second anniversary, January 27, 1876, the colonists held a 

 general reunion pic-nic in what they called lyive Oak Park — now the Lin- 

 coln Park portion of South Pasadena. The entire population was there — 

 men, women and children. Among the guests of the occasion was the ven- 

 erable C. F. Clarkson, a pioneer agricultural editor and publisher of Iowa, 

 and father of J. S. Clarkson, editor of the Iowa State Register, the leading 

 republican paper of the state, who afterward became famous as chairman of 

 the Republican National Committee, and First Assistant Postmaster-General 

 in President Harrison's administration [1889]. Father Clarkson paid a 

 glowing tribute to the location, and complimented in the highest terms the 

 wisdom and foresight of those who had selected the situation for the settle- 

 ment, and had laid so broad and deep the foundations of its success ; and he 

 predicted in eloquent words the bright and prosperous future before it, such 

 as the most sanguine of its projectors had not conceived of. Mr. Clarkson 

 and his wife spent the winter here and at Los Angeles ; and with Col. Ban- 

 bury and other friends they made a trip up Eaton canyon to the Falls, 

 which was a notable event at the time, for Mrs. Clarkson was a woman of 

 such large and fleshy proportions, that it was only with extreme difficulty, 



