350 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



FLOWING SPRINGS BY NAME. 



The Garfias or "Old Adobe" Spring. — This was a fine outgush 

 of water at the top of the Arroyo bank, a few rods below the foot of Her- 

 mosa street, and near where the original Garfias adobe ranch house stood,* 

 the walls of which were finally destroyed by Geo. W. Glover, Sr., in No- 

 vember, 1886. The spring pool was in the shade of a great spreading live- 

 oak tree, and is now all boxed up, the water being piped down to L,incoln 

 Park for its domestic water supply. The Indians had a village near this 

 spring before the Spaniards came. 



Baker's Spring. — At Edwin Baker's place, on Grand avenue above 

 West Columbia street, he has a natural flowing spring, with a stone milk- 

 house built over it. 



San Rafael Springs, or Johnson's spring. — In the west bank of the 

 Arroyo, nearly opposite the foot of California street, there is a bog or cienega 

 which yields a continuous supply of water, and from a well here the water 

 is pumped up into cisterns at the Johnson ranch house on top of the arroyo 

 hill. 



Sheep Corral Springs. — During the old Mission occupancy of these 

 lands a sheep corral was maintained on Reservoir Hill, because of its good 

 outlook against approach of coyotes, foxes, bears, etc.; and at the foot of 

 its north slope was the great bog of water-bearing land for their drink supply. 

 Hon. Stephen C. Foster tells me that the padres kept all their black sheep 

 in flocks by themselves on rancho San Pasqual, and their white sheep on 

 rancho San Antonio, along the San Gabriel river above Downey. To save 

 expense of dying, the wools were cleaned and spun separately, then mixed 

 in the weaving, making salt-and-pepper cloth, and sometimes black and 

 white barred or striped goods, etc. This sheep corral was kept up in the 

 earlier years of the Garfias occupancy ; but was improved and better utilized 

 while Griffin and Wilson owned the ranch and were getting in some Yankee 

 push and enterprise to make the thing "pay." So when our Pasadena 

 colonists took the land they found remnants of sheep-corral fences, and 

 bottom timbers of the rude huts of the herders and booths of the shearers ; 

 and they hauled away tons of sheep manure to fertilize their young orange 

 trees. The name "sheep corral," therefore, applied to a thirty- or forty-acre 

 body of hill-top and slope and bottom land all around and above the springs 

 where the pumping works are now located. I have noticed that some 

 eastern people, not understanding our western word "corral," have written 

 this spring up gushingly as the "coral springs." That would do very well 

 for Florida, but not for California.! 



*Mrs. G. W. Robinson, whose husband was jailor at I.os Angeles in the early sos. tells me that they 

 lived in a part of the Garfias house in I,os Angeles, corner of Main and First streets, and she and Mrs. 

 Garfias used to take their family washings out to this spring and have the work done there. The major 

 domo of Mrs. Garfias's mother lived there then, in charge of the ranch. 



tThe blunder of a misprint of this name occurred in the Farnsworth pamphlet of 1883, on page 49— 

 " coral." It was printed at Oakland. 



