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but no farther;* then about a mile farther up the water course, which can 

 be followed by footpath through the narrow cleft between mountainous per- 

 pendicular walls of rock, Eaton Falls is reached — a beautiful cascade 

 about forty feet high. Waters from the north and east side of Muir's peak, 

 from the east side of Mount I,owe, Mount Markham and San Gabriel 

 peak, from the south side of Precipicio peak and Knife-Blade ridge, 

 from the west side of Mount Wilson and Mount Harvard promontory, 

 and from Henniger's flat, all flow into Eaton Canyon. These several peaks 

 and ridges form the great mountain horseshoe rim of what is called in a 

 large, comprehensive way "Grand Basin" in the vast body of hterature 

 that has grown up around the wonderful Mount Eowe Electric Railway 

 enterprise. Grand Basin includes the entire watershed of which Eaton 

 canyon is the outlet. 



Pine Canyon. — Next westward is a smaller gap in the mountain decliv- 

 ity, which is characterized by having more pine trees growing in it, and at 

 lower altitude, than any other opening on the south side of Pa.sadena mount- 

 ains, thus writing its own name so plainly on its breast that no man has 

 ever attempted to write a substitute. This canyon came into celebrity in 

 1893-4 from gold'^ mining operations carried on there by Carson & Dickey 

 in its west wall. [See chapter on geology.] 



Dry Canyon.— This is a smaller break in the lower part of the great 

 mountainous ridge between Pine and Rubio canyons. At its outflow is a 

 tunnel 3,000 feet long, which was made in search of water in 1884-5 6, and 

 was reported at the time as the longest water tunnel in I^os Angeles county. 

 The Uiiion of June 4, 1886, said of it. " It costs a mint of money and a 

 vast deal of pluck to make such a colossal experiment." True ; and sad to 

 say, it was an entire failure at last— a dry tunnel, waterless and worthless ; 

 yet the persistence in pushing it to a finish was truly heroic, and no man 

 could have told in advance that little or no water would be found. It was 

 made by David Dolben for I. M. Hill, S. Iv. Porter and Dr. George M. 

 Bergen, owners of land there. A few inches of water flow in the upper 

 section, but all sinks away long before reaching the mouth of the tunnel. 



Rubio Canyon.— In 1867 Jesus Rubio, a native Californian, born in 

 1826, and who had become an American citizen by the treaty of peace in 

 1847 between Mexico and the United States, made a squatter's claim at the 

 mouth of this canyon, built the little farm house which still stands there, 

 and made a start toward the improvements that now constitute "Rubio 

 farm." The Americans called him Rubio, or "Old Man Rubio" — and his 

 water source was called Rubio' s canyon. [His name as given in the Great 

 Register is Jesus Marron, his father's name ; but Rubio was his mother's old 

 historic family name. See third footnote, page 87.] He now resides at 



*The Toll Road Company promises in 1895 to make a wagon road as far up as Henniger's Flat. 



