114 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



at the same price. This concession, however, was afterward extended to 

 others, and under it lands were bought the same year at _the same price by 

 David Townsend, 30 acres ; John L,owe, 20 acres ; A. Ninde, 20 acres ; 

 P. G. Wooster, 10 acres. 



Thomas Banbury gives a Httle different version of the matter from the 

 HoUingsworth people. He says the low price of the lands sold in 1876 was 

 conditioned on their "making up a pot," as Mr. Wilson expressed it, of 

 200 acres ; and that the total sales that year, including his first 10 taken in 

 December, 1875, amounted to 210 acres — so Mr. Wilson was satisfied, as the 

 ' ' full pot " had been made up. 



These purchases, and the occupancy and improvements which went 

 forward in rapid succession, had now given the "east side colony" as it 

 was called, a good start ; and the price of Company lands, with water, was 

 thereafter held at $75, $80 and $100 per acre. 



The work of getting a water supply down to these lots now had to be 

 pushed as rapidly as possible. The original ditch was enlarged and extended 

 down to Reservoir No. i, and finally cemented from Devil's Gate to the 

 reservoir. Of course all this took time ; and for several months the ' ' east- 

 siders ' ' had no water supply but what flowed in a plow-furrow ditch from 

 the reservoir site down through the body of land they had chosen. Then 

 the gophers would often push fresh loose dirt into the stream and muddy it, 

 or make their holes where the water would all run into them and disappear, 

 leaving none for the new comers above ground ; and occasionally hogs were 

 found wallowing in the ditch where it crossed the old ranch lands up near 

 the Arroyo. These were some of the tribulations of pioneer life in Pasadena. 

 It was the daily business of the settlers to go with their canteens, buckets, 

 barrels, tubs, etc., to the ditch and secure a supply of water for the day, or 

 longer. Dr. Allen tells that, having no horse, he had to roll his water 

 barrel back and forth by hand, a distance of half a mile from house to ditch. 



The construction and cementing of the permanent main ditch was done 

 by Thomas Banbury under contract, superintended by Hon. J. De Barth 

 Shorb, who relates with much satisfaction that two distinguished U. S. army 

 engineers, Gen. B. S. Alexander and Col. Geo. H. Mendel, estimated that it 

 would cost at least $5 per running foot, but he built it at a cost a little under 

 $2.75 per running foot. The cement or lime for this job was dug out of the 

 hillside at Lincoln Park by Thomas Banbury, and burned there, where the 

 Mission Fathers had done the same thing asearly as 1780-81. In construct- 

 ing this cement ditch there was a certain point where a pike or causeway 

 had to be made some distance across a depression in the land, Mr. Shorb 

 and his engineer, named E. T. Wright, had set the stakes for this fill, and 

 A. O. Bristol had charge of a gang of Chinamen doing the grade work. 

 One day John W. Wilson reported to his uncle B. D. Wilson down at his 

 Lake Vineyard home, that there was something not right about that ditch 



