DIVISION FIVE — NAMES. 351 



The Ben Wilson Spring. — In 1874, J. Benjamin Wilson, son of 

 John W. Wilson, secured a tract of land which extended down over the 

 Arroyo bluff near the west end of IvOgan street ; and toward the bottom of 

 the high bank or bluff there was an issue of water which he developed 

 somewhat himself. Then in October and November, 1884, W. F. Gowie, 

 run a tunnel in 200 feet for him and claimed a fiowage of 7 inches of water. 

 The same property in 1894, is owned by P. W. Lloyd. 



The Richardson Spring. — In 1877, Geo. A. Richardson bought 37 

 acres of land next north of Wilson's, and opened a spring in the bluff por- 

 tion of it. This spring was a few years ago purchased by the Painter 

 Brothers, and the water was pumped up to irrigate lands which they owned 

 on the arable flat above. In 1894 the spring was bought by the Pasadena 

 Land and Water Co., and also the Wilson spring and tunnel. 



Flutterwheel Springs. ^ — ^Just below the rocky point on east side of 

 Devil's Gate there was formerly a great body of bog soil reaching perhaps 

 twelve feet above the Arroyo bed ; but it is all tapped or underdrained, and 

 entirely changed in appearance and character now, by the water company's 

 tunnels. At an early day, about 1872, a man named Chesley Cawthon im- 

 proved the water flowage on top of this bog-bank so as to gather its many 

 ripples into one stream and guide it by a plunge flume upon a wooden 

 water wheel which he had constructed. To this wheel he attached some 

 light machinery for boring, sawing, etc., and manufactured rustic chairs 

 from alder, sycamore, willow, and other light woods of the Arroyo. One 

 day B. D. Wilson was up there looking at it and playfully called it the 

 " flutterwheel mill." The name stuck, and that place is called " flutter- 

 wheel springs " to this day. Some fragments of Cawthon's old wheel were 

 there yet when our colonists took possession. Mr. Cawthon also built an 

 adobe house nearly where Yolo Avenue and Mountain street now join, at 

 Reservoir No. i. About 1880 81 ly. H. Michener lived in this Cawthon 

 adobe house, the land on which it stood having been bought by his father- 

 in-law, John H. Painter. 



Thibbets Springs. — A Mr. Thibbets held a squatter's right on the 

 land next north of Devil's Gate on the east side, where there is perhaps an 

 acre of boggy or waterbearing soil, and lived there some years as its first 

 white-man occupant. Hence Judge Eaton called it by Thibbets 's name, and 

 it so remains. 



Ivy Springs. — A man named Silas Ivy first claimed a body of land 

 on the west side above Devil's Gate, where the La Canyada creek enters 

 the Arroyo. Here were numerous trickles of water coming out of an ex- 

 tensive sandbed, and on being led into a common channel they formed a nice 

 little stream, the entire sandbed being called " Ivy Springs," from Mr. Ivy, 

 and not from the poison oak or "ivy" growing there, as many have supposed. 



