MISS DR. GLEASON'S STRUCTURE. 



DIVISION FIVE — NAMES. 349 



which could all have been sold at good prices during the ' ' boom ' ' but for 

 this difficulty. Meanwhile Jason Brown had bought from Painter & Ball 

 80 acres on the Arroyo bluff adjoining the Las Casitas plat on the west, for 

 $400.* He divided this up and sold it in parcels, making about $2,000 

 clear, but it took nearly all of it to pay his debts. Then he and his brother 

 Owen took as a homestead some rough mountain land just north of Las 

 Casitas, where they lived several years, and where Owen lies buried. 

 — — Among those who bought lots from Jason Brown 

 was Miss Adele Gleason, M. D., of Elmira, N. 

 Y., who erected there in 1886 87 a quaint and 

 picturesque sanitarium building, and opened it 

 for guests. But it proved a losing venture ; 

 and in 1890, she offered it to the State Teachers' 

 Association of California as a " home ' ' for sick 

 or disabled teachers. They had no funds to sus- 

 tain such a place, and could not accept the gift. Then in 1894, Dr. O. S. 

 Barnum of Pasadena, re-opened the sanitarium there ; and Las Casitas is 

 now one of Pasadena's established foot-mountain resorts — five miles dis- 

 tant, and 1,800 feet above sea level. 



OLD SPANISH LAND GRANTS CONFIRMED. 



The Spanish and Mexican method of describing boundaries of the 

 large land estates was, by so many leagues along some stream, or some 

 range of hills, or to some rock, tree, canyon, spring, or other object, without 

 any idea at all of the definite number of acres included. But when after 

 1849, the American method of measuring lands by townships, sections, 

 quarters, and definite acreage, began to come into use, there was a flood of 

 confusion about the old land grants, and the later titles acquired under 

 them. To remedy this, Congress in 1852, passed an act creating a commis- 

 sion to settle private land claims in California. This commission sat in Los 

 Angeles part of the time, and adjusted seventy -three individual claims in 

 this county alone — these ranging from ig}4 acres up to 116, 858^^ acres to 

 one person. From the official reports on these decisions I have culled the 

 following cases within or near Pasadenaland : 



NAME OF PERSON WHOSE ,^ ^^ .^x,r-o DATE OF 



NAME OF GRANT. ^^^^^ ^^^^ CONFIRMED. ^^^ «^ ^^^^^^ PATENT. 



Mission San Gabriel Bishop J. S. Alemany 190.69 Nov. 19, 1S59. 



Huerta de Cuati Victoria Reid 128.26 June 30, 1859. 



San Pascual Manuel Garfias 13.693 93 April 3, 1863. 



La Canyada J.R.Scott et al 5.832.10 Aug. i, 1866. 



Santa Anita Henry Dalton 13,319.06 Aug. 9, 1866. 



Mission San Gabriel, outlot..Bishop J. S. Alemany 55.23 Dec. 4, 1875. 



San Pascual B. D. Wilson 708.57 Feb. 12, 1881. 



San Rafael Julio Verdugo et al 36,403.32 Jan. 28, 1882. 



San Pascual Juan Gallardo 700.00 (No date.) 



Mission San Gabriel Daniel Sexton 227.75 May 16, 1871. 



*Painter & Ball had bought from a man named Taylor, his unperfected homestead claim here , in 

 order to hold their own right of way from their water rights farther up the Arroyo, down to their great 

 Tract about Monks hill. 



