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and the water-wheel upon the lower end, so that the revolution of the stone 

 was no more frequent than that of the water-wheel. "-^^ 



The grinding stones from this old mill were laid up for a horse-block at 

 the south front of Hon. J. DeBarth Shorb's residence, "San Marino," f and 

 can be seen there yet — 1895. They are 2)4 feet in diameter and 7 to 8 

 inches thick. The kind of stone is volcanic tufa, said to be found some 

 distance up the San Gabriel canyon. The water from I^os Robles canyon or 

 creek (the same that has been called " Mill Spring creek," and " Willowdale 

 creek,") was conveyed in a ditch along the side of the bluff on the Stone- 

 man and Richardson farms to the upper side of the mill, where it flowed 

 into a funnel-shaped cement cistern or fore-bay about 12 feet deep. From 

 the bottom of this cistern a narrow spout-flume extended through the thick 

 stone wall into the brick-arched wheel chamber, and the water poured 

 through the spout horizontally against the buckets of the water-wheel. A 

 vertical shaft extended from the water-wheel up into the second story, where 

 it bore the millstone on its upper end to do the grinding work. The water 

 from Mill canyon was also brought by a ditch into the fore-bay of this mill. 

 After the water had been used here it flowed by a cement ditch into the dam 

 or lake, to serve the sawmill and other works below the dam. I visited 

 this Old Mill, with Ex-Gov. Merrill and Hon. Delos Arnold of Iowa, in 

 January, 1884. But I went there again May 23 and July 25, and August 

 30, 1894, and other times, to re-examine and measure some parts. The 

 curious fore-bay, with its adjunct reserve cistern and their inflow conduits 

 are still to be vSeen at the up-hill side of the building ; while in the lower 

 story the wheel chamber is intact, with its recesses in the side walls for 

 holding the heavy timbers to support the water-wheel on its vertical shaft ; 

 the hole in the arch for the shaft to pass up through; the inflow water 

 flume, etc., are plainly to be seen. There are two arched wheel chambers, but 

 only the south one was ever supplied with a working wheel, for the reason 

 that the earthquake of 181 2 cracked the north fore-bay before the wheel 

 work was completed ; and the crack has been widened a little by several 

 " quakes " in later years. 



In 1859 Col. E. J. C. Kewen, a soldier of the Mexican war and ex- 

 attorney -general of California, purchased the old mill property, the building 

 being then still just as the padres had left it, although a family had been 

 living in it for several years. He made sundry additions and alterations 

 to fit it for a genteel dwelliag ; and his family resided there until his death, 

 November 25, 1879.I Since that time it has only been used as a wine-cellar 



♦This was true of the first or stone mill, but not of the one built at the church. See page 52. War- 

 ner is also mistaken about these being " the only mills," etc., for Chapman had built one at Santa Ynez 

 in 1820-21. See page 51. 



t" The old mill stones in front of our home, now used as a horse-block, are the identical ones placed 

 in the ' Old Mill by the I.ake ' by the Mis.sion ^^athers."— Letter of Hon. J. DeBarth Shorb to Dr. Reid, 

 March 29, i8g4. 



I The Hist. Los A. Co. published by Thompson & West, 18S0, at page 107, says : " 1858. In February, 

 Col. Kewen of Walker filibustering fame, settled in Los Angeles to practice law." 



