384 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



ains next west of Las Flores, and takes its name from Henry Elms, who 

 opened and improved the land at its mouth in 1883, and resides there yet, 



1895- 



Chiquito Canyon, west from Elms's place. — Chiquito is Spanish for 

 "smaller," and it was named by Mr. Elms, In April, 1895, a company 

 consisting of P. W. Eloyd, Charles Copelin and J. T. Rood of Pasadena, 

 and a Dr. Crandall of Eos Angeles, were digging for water on a large scale 

 in this canyon. 



Eeighton's Canyon. — West by south of Chiquito canyon is the farm 

 of S. E. Leighton, whose house stands on the canyon ridge, up the crest of 

 which runs his road over the footmountains into Millard canyon. His ridge 

 road was worked and used by the North Pasadena Water Co. in 1892, while 

 piping water out from some mountain springs above Millard Falls. 



Millard Canyon. — This was called by the Spanish-speaking native 

 Mexicans Canyo7i el Blanco — white canyon — because of the whiteness of the 

 rocks in some portions of its mountain walls. This is especially noticeable 

 in its upper portion, now called Grand canyon. In 1862, a man named 

 Millard settled as a squatter at the mouth of this canyon, utilized its waters, 

 and engaged in raising bees and hauling wood down to Eos Angeles. Mil- 

 lard lived here ten years, or until 1872, during which time his wife and one 

 child died and were buried on what is now the Giddings farm ; and he 

 finally moved away to the Downey settlement in order to get where his 

 children could attend school — but the canyon still retains his name. In 

 1874, Millard's abandoned claim was taken by Edwin Baker; he made some 

 further improvements, and in 1877 sold his rights and holdings there to the 

 Giddings family, who still occupy it, having bought adjoining lands and 

 piped water out onto them. Millard Falls is a fine cascade, 58 feet high, 

 and was for some years a favorite picnic resort, the Giddings people having 

 made a wagon road up to it, on which they charged a snrall tollage fee to help 

 keep it in repair. These Giddingses were cousins of Joshua R. Giddings, 

 the famous anti-slavery member of Congress for seventeen years from north- 

 eastern Ohio (Ashtabula county), who was a giant of pluck and moral power 

 in his day. In his book entitled "All about Pasadena," Prof. C. F. 

 Holder says: 



" The writer was once detained for two days by the Millard canyon 

 stream, that in midsummer almost disappears. A cloud-burst in the mount- 

 ain filled it to overflowing, and the noise of the boulders, literally bowled 

 from the upper range, was deafening and a continuous reverberating roar. 

 Such occurrences are rare." 



Punch Bowl Canyon. — Half a mile or so above Millard Falls there 

 opens into Millard canyon from the northeast a beautiful gap in which 

 there are some fine falls, and two interesting potholes, which Eugene Gid- 

 dings and Calvin Hartwell had dubbed "devil's saucer" and "devil's 



