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HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



which forms the east abutment of this canyon stands " San Marino," Hon. 

 J. De Barth Sh orb's elegant and sightly home place ; and Shorb Avenue 

 leads from San Pasqual street into the head of this picturesque canyon, and 

 past the lagoon, then turns southeasterly up the ridge to Mr. Shorb's house. 

 Wilson's, Mission, and San Marino canyons used to be all lumped together 

 as " Mission canyon," by the old Mission populace. 



This completes the list of those outlets of the Pasadena geological 

 basin which have received special names as water-bearing canyons, so far as 

 I have been able to learn. And I now pass north to the mountains for 

 larger specimens of the canyon species, and commence at the great Katon 

 canyon, taking the rest in their successive order from this point westward. 



Eaton Canyon. — Officially recorded as " Precipicio canyon," its old 

 Spanish name ; but as the Spaniards never did anything to invest it with a 

 living human interest by developing or improving it in any way, their name 

 for it would not "stick " in the popular mind, and it persists in being 

 known only as Eaton canyon, because Judge Eaton first developed and 

 utilized its waters. [See page 120.] In 1865 Judge Eaton, having lost his 

 dairy stock by the terrible drouth of 1864 5, engaged to bring out the 

 waters of the big canyon onto the " Fair Oaks " farm, clear the land and 

 plant it with trees, vines, etc. This he did; and he so stamped his strong 

 personality upon the great gorge audits water supply that it is called " Eaton 

 Canyon " to this day, in spite of a different name in the corporate title of its 

 present water company. The starting station of the Mount Wilson Toll 

 Road is at the mouth of this canyon, and up to this point vehicles can go. 



EATON CANYON FALLS— 40 FEET HIGH. 



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