112 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



patience, perseverance, and frequent assistance that she was able to accom- 

 plish the canyon trip. Father Clarkson then and for many years until his 

 death, edited the Agricultural Department of the lozva State Register ; and 

 he wrote rapturously of Pasadena and all this region of country even to the 

 year of his death, thus making himself its chief apostle and missionary 

 throughout Iowa — a circumstance which accounts for so many Iowa people 

 coming here. 



Another guest and speaker on that anniversary occasion was Col. John 

 F. Godfrey of Los Angeles, after whom the John F. Godfrey Post, G. A. R., 

 and Woman's Relief Corps of Pasadena were named. Calvin Fletcher, Dr. 

 T. B. Elliott, and other colony members also made appropriate speeches. 



FIRST CITRUS FAIR. 



The next important stage in the evolution of the colony, as to its ma- 

 terial interests and its guerdon of stability, was when its orchards and vine- 

 yards began to yield their fruit. And here I quote again from Hon. P. M. 

 Green's well written sketch. Mr. Green says : 



"The year 1880 being the first in which the orchards and vineyards 

 began to be productive, the society decided to hold its first Citrus Fair, at 

 which the products of the locality might be placed on exhibition. March 

 24 was the date fixed for the Fair, and when the time came the display of 

 fruits of all kinds was greatly in excess of the most sanguine expectations. 

 The exhibition was a grand success, and a surprise to all in attendance. 

 The public prints of the day — all the Los Angeles newspapers being repre- 

 sented at the Fair — abounded in praises of the exhibition, and of the energy 

 and enterprise of its projectors. 



' ' The success of the society at its local exhibition encouraged it to 

 make another display of the products of the place at the Citrus Fair held 

 under the auspices of the vSouthern California Horticultural Society at the 

 city of Los Angeles, in March, 1881. This was intended as an exhibition 

 strictly of the citrus products of every part of the State where citrus fruits 

 can be produced, and every section was represented. The exhibition of 

 Pasadena at this Fair was grand and imposing. A huge pyramid of oranges, 

 lemons, and limes was erected, which attracted marked attention, and was 

 the admiration of the thousands in attendance. The exhibit was awarded 

 the first premium over all competitors, and bore off in triumph the blue 

 ribbon and the one hundred dollars awarded to it as the largest and best 

 exhibit of the kind ever made in the State. 



"At the regular Annual Fair of the Southern California Horticultural 

 Society, held in the fall of 1881, at which a general exhibit of all the friiits 

 produced in California was made, the Pasadena exhibit again took the first 

 premium. Thus, at two successive Fairs [in Los Angeles] Pasadena was 

 able to carry off the first premium for the quality and display of its fruits, 

 against the competition ot the very best fruit-growing districts of the State." 



THE TvAKE VINEYARD COLONY TRACT. 



The foregoing account has followed apparently the founding and pro- 

 gress of the San Gabriel Orange Grove Association only, whose territory 

 was bounded on the east by Fair Oaks Avenue. But another colony sub- 



