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exceeded a rise of one foot in ten. The total cost of surveying, grading, 

 building telephone line to foot of road, and incidental expenses, footed up 

 about $5,000. 



This construction work was going on during the early months of 1891. 

 Meanwhile Mr. Kernaghan was president of the Pasadena Packing Co., 

 and also both president and manager of the Daily Star Publishing Co., and 

 on the ist of May he became postmaster of Pasadena. These varied cares 

 and labors proved too heavy a strain upon him, and about the last of May 

 he relinquished his interest in the toll road, being succeeded by H. W. 

 Magee as president and manager. The grading work was then still in 

 progress. On his retiring, the Company, as a souvenir of the past and a 

 token of their kindly regard, presented Mr. Kernaghan with a " life pass " 

 over the road — the only one ever issued. 



The original land and water rights acquired in 1886 by Bates, Martin 

 and Williams on Mount Wilson, besides some later claims, are now [1895] 

 held by C. S. Martin, J. W. and R. T. Vandevort, J. H. Holmes of Hotel 

 Green, Wm. Morgan and Wm. R. Staats, and comprise what are known as 

 "Martin's camp," "Strain's camp," and "Observatory Casino." [vSee pages 



.eVvifeilbifi— 



STRAIN'S CAMP— 1894. 

 At the original Mount Wilson Spring. See article, " Wilson's Trail," page 395. 



367-68.] And they have control of the old original Wilson Trail, as well 

 as their own Toll Road.* 



The Ivos Angeles Times of July 21, 1891, contained the following 

 account of the funniest historic incident connected with this Toll Road : 



*The IVeeklv Star of ]a\y 8, 1 89 r, reporting a trip of the county board of supervisors up the Toll 

 Road in order to fix its toll rates, savs : " It is over the same general route as that surveyed four years 

 ago by Col. J. K. Place and Mr. Horne, for a cog-wheel railroad. That survey cost $1,000, and was paid 

 for by Col Markham, C. S. Martin and R Williams. That route was over a 25 per cent, grade, without 

 any switchbacks, and went pretty straight up the mountain. * * The Toll Road survey was be- 

 gun in November, 1890, and took two months steady work. The ct)g-wheel road was estimated to cost 

 $400,000. The Toll Road is 8.7 miles in length, and its 10 per cent, grade gives a rise of about 5,000 feet. (?) 

 It has numerous romantic points which have been named, such as Pasadena View, Saint's Rest, Halfway 

 Turn, Mosquito Pass, Cape Horn, etc. Its top end is at the observatory." 



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