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giving liens on his land for security, until it was nearly all held by the 

 following creditors : Dreyfuss, Beaudry, Glassell, Chapman, Capt. Hunter, 

 Jose Ramirez, Tomas Sanchez, and others, A court commission consisting 

 of Judge B. S. Eaton, Judge A. W. Hutton and jas. Lander, Esq., was 

 appointed in 187 1 to apportion the land equally among these men, according 

 to their several claims. And thus it was that Beaudry received the hills 

 opposite Pasadena now known as the Johnson ranch ; Dreyfuss received the 

 hills and " Indian Flat " now known as Linda Vista ; Glassell received the 

 Eagle Rock and Garvanza region ; Capt. Hunter received the Highland 

 Park land ; and so on. According to law the court commission had to meet 

 on the land for each day's business ; and every time when they came, the 

 old man Verdugo would strike a military attitude and declaim in purest 

 Spanish, with dramatic gestures, "I'm a soldier of the king! All these 

 hills are mine ! All these valleys and mesas are mine ! All these cattle are 

 mine! r m a soldier of the king ! '' After this regular prologue the court 

 commissioners could go on with their business, but not before. 



The Rancho La Canyada was the long, narrow valley lying between 

 the Sierra Madre mountains and the Verdugo hills, from Arroyo Seco up 

 westward to its junction with the San Fernando valley. This grant 

 amounted to 5,000 acres of land, and included what are now called La 

 Canyada and La Crescenta ; but Monte Vista and Glorieta Heights were in 

 the Rancho Tejunga. 



The; Woodbury Tract. — This was an odd remnant of B. D. Wilson's 

 land up near the mountains, without water, and considered of little worth, 

 which he gave as a present to the original colony association, — in token of 

 his friendly good will, and of his satisfaction with the way they had divided 

 their lands and gone to work making improvements. The colony (San 

 Gabriel Orange Grove Association) sold about 900 acres of this mountain 

 slope body of land, in 1882, to F. J. and John Woodbury lor $5 per acre; 

 but by the time these men had secured a water supply and got it developed 

 and distributed to the land, it had cost them about $35 per acre. Other 

 portions of the 1,400 acres were sold to S. P. Jewett and others. F. J. 

 Woodbury had in 1881 bought of Dr. Hall's widow the original Rubio 

 canyon farm and was living there in the same hou«e now owned by the 

 Mount Lowe Railway Company and occupied by their farming tenants. With 

 this farm Mr. Woodbury had acquired the water rights of the Rubio canyon, 

 and ultimately piped this water down over the lands bought from the colony 

 association, where the brothers each built a fine residence, planted vine- 

 yards, orange groves and other fruits, and made extensive improvements. 

 It is now the village of Altadena, and junction of the Los Angeles Ter- 

 minal railroad and of the Pasadena and Pacific Electric railway with the 

 Mount Lowe Electric railway. 



OI.IVEWOOD Tract.— This was eighty acres lying between Colorado 



