DIVISION FOUR — BOOM. 289 



Road Machine 



Carts, Scrapers and Implements 



Cart Horse 



City Jail 



Supplies, Police Dep't 



Cash subject to warrant 



Total Assets $302,379 59 



The city had at the same date a total bonded indebtednees of $138,700. 



CITY ASSESSMENTS AND TAX LEVY IN SUCCESSIVE YEARS. 



Levy per Levy per 



Year. Assessed Value. $100 Year. Assessed Value. $100 



1886-87 $1,001,737 00 $ .65 1891-92 $4,551,330 00 $1.10 



1887-88 4,881,245 00 40 1892-93 4,890,218 00 1. 13 



1888-89 8,668,627 00 72 1893-94 5,473,821 00 1. 00 



1889-90 7-237,338 00 70 1894-95 6,462,576 00 I.OO 



1890-91 4,709,164 00...... .90 



November 10, 1893, the Board of Trade issued a circular prepared by 

 its secretary, Wm. H. Knight, from which I glean a few points to preserve, 

 as showing the condition of certain matters at that time : 



"Pasadena, with a city population of 8,000, and an adjacent population 

 3,000 more, probably has a larger number of beautiful homes than any other 

 city of equal size in the world. [See page 226.] * * * Building im- 

 provements now under way amount in value to $552,400. Among them are 

 dwellings ranging from $1,000 to $30,000. * ^= * Between January and 

 September, 1893, there were 9,519 lineal feet of streets graded, 26,458 feet 

 of curbing built, and 99,335 square feet of sidewalks laid, at a total cost of 

 $40,000. The principal business streets are now being paved with asphalt. 

 * * * Within and adjacent to the corporate limits of Pasadena are 

 155,000 orange and lemon trees from three to fifteen years old, and there 

 are 2,500 acres planted to walnuts, olives, prunes, figs, apricots, and other 

 deciduous fruits." 



NEW CHARTER — " NO ! " 



In 1894 a plao was set on foot to provide the city with a bran new 

 homemade charter, instead of accepting the one for a city of the Fifth Class, 

 or the one for Fourth Class, as already provided by the State Code. A com- 

 mittee of fifteen freeholders was formed to prepare the new document. They 

 spent several months in wrestling and worrying with the manifold points 

 necessary to be covered. At last the completed thing came to a public vote 

 on Saturday, February 23, 1895, and was overwhelmingly rejected, by the 

 following vote : 



First precinct — yeas 5, noes 63 ; second — yeas 6, noes 66 ; third — yeas 

 2, noes 56; fourth — yeas 5, noes 33 ; fifth — yeas 10, noes 42 ; sixth — yeas 

 6, noes 51. Total, 5'eas 34, noes 311. The total cost to the city of this 

 " new charter " fiasco footed up $1,325.06. 



*"In our city's effort to secure right-of-way for laying pipe under ground to reach its sewage farm, 

 eighty different resisting property owuer.'^ along the line are made co-defendants in a suit of the city for 

 legal process to secure the desired right-of-way." — I'a^adena Standard, September 21, 18S9. 



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