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below, and the up-stairs part as a storehouse for products of the ranch, and 

 bunk-room for the workmen. The place is now owned by K. ly. May berry, 

 who has made extensive improvements, and built a fine new residence on a 

 bluff above the mill. 



Wilson Lake. — This is marked on the official map of Pasadena as 

 " Kewen lyake," and the maker of the map informs me that it has that 

 name in the county records. But it had been known as " Wilson's Lake " for 

 six or seven years before Kewen bought the old mill property, which em- 

 braced the lower end, the dam and the outlet of the lake. And before 

 Wilson's time it was called the Mission lake. The dam was built in 1810 to 

 1812. Father Zalvidea commenced his thrifty but iron rule in 1806, and 

 immediately went about establishing his system of taskwork for every one 

 under his control, in order to increase the agricultural, vinicultural, live- 

 stock and manufactured products of the Mission ; and a heavy stone dam 

 was built to enlarge this lake. Then just below the dam he established a saw 

 mill, a tannery, a wool-washery, etc., where the water could be conveyed by 

 wooden troughs for the use of the work people, who were the neophytes or 

 "converted " Indians. The water was also conveyed in ditches to irrigate 

 additional vineyards and increase the wine and brandy products, these being 

 prime articles of commerce at that time. For building the lake dam, heavy 

 cobblestones or boulders were hauled in great clumsy ox-carts from Lincoln 

 Park, this being the nearest point where large enough ones could be gath- 

 ered in quantity;* this I verified by special examination of the wall, and 

 then of the wash channels near by. And cement for the work, a sort of 

 water lime, was dug out of the hillside and burned where the Lincoln Park 

 reservoir now stands in the old lime kiln pit. There had been a large bog 

 or cienega at the lake place ; and by building the dam the area of the lagoon 

 or lake was more than doubled, and its water storage four or five times in- 

 creased by depth. The mill stood on ground higher than the lake, and the 

 mill stream flowed into the lake by a cement gutter after doing duty on the 

 miller's wheel. The solid stone wall of the dam is from 6 to 7 feet thick, 

 with reinforcing ledges and buttressed flume cheeks on lower side ; 10 to 12 

 feet high at outlet ; and 70 paces or over 200 feet entire length at top of wall. 



*" Old-timers will reiiieniber that all along on the banks of the Arroyo about where the IJncolu Park 

 depot now stands, were any quantity of small mounds, built of boulders, and these were said to be Indian 

 graves. In 1858 I had the curiosity to examine some of them. I was soon satisfied that no bodies 

 had ever been buried beneath them. It is probable that during the construction of the Mission San 

 Ciabriel, or some of tlieir water dams that still exi.st in the neighborhood, Indians were sent there to gather 

 them in piles to be hauled away for building purposes. This theory seems probable, since each pile 

 would just about make a carreta load. These heaps were over and above what they needed, and were 

 left." — Judge B. S Eaton's Reminiscences. 



