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Hon, Joshua R. Giddings. Mr. Giddings is building a double trail to this 

 peak, so as to carry visitors up by way of Millard canyon and the falls. ' 

 In his "Highlands" pamphlet of 1889, Prof. Holder said : 

 "The road to Millard canyon winds up by the Giddings ranch, then 

 dips into the deep canyon. * * A mile or more and the road ends, and a 

 footpath leads to the falls, one of the most attractive in the range. * * 

 To go beyond the fall the cliff must be climbed, the roots of great 3ive-oaks 

 forming supports. By keeping to the right the Giddings trail may be 

 reached, from which one of the finest views of the city and the San Gabriel 

 valley is obtained." 



This Giddings trail was a burro path leading from Millard canyon up to 

 Giddings peak, which was the same point on the front range summit that is 

 now called "Grizzly Point" in the Mount lyOwe literature. And this 

 Grizzly Point is the ledge of rock where a bear is said to have sat and 

 laughed to see Gov. Markham, Charley Watts, David Townsend and E. G. 

 Halleck of the " Pasadena rifle team," running from him pell-mell down the 

 mountain side, in spring of 1882. [See Gov. Markham' s speech at the 

 Mount Ivowe celebration, August 23, 1893, in Chapter 23.] 



UnclK Bob's Trail. — In going from Giddings Heights into Millard 

 canyon, or in crossing Millard creek on the road to Ivas Casitas, there will be 

 .seen an old road in the west wall of Millard canyon that looks too steep to 

 have ever been practicable for any wagon use ; yet this is where Uncle Bob 

 Owens, the colored man, hauled wood out from Negro canyon to supply the 

 U. S. headquarters and barracks at lyos Angeles with fuel, in 1862-3-4. It 

 was better to haul it up over the mountain spur above Negro canyon and 

 then down this fearful grade, rather than down the easier but far-around 

 Arroyo Seco route, and then up the high, steep bluff at Devil's Gate. [See 

 article, "Negro canyon," page 386.] 



The Soledad Trail, or Grade. — Looking northwest from Pasadena, 

 there is seen a line cut along in a north and south direction on the mountain 

 side beyond and above I^as Casitas. This is where the traders of Los 

 Angeles set out in the year 1868, before the Southern Pacific R. R. was 

 built, to construct a wagon and stage road across the mountains to the 

 Soledad mining region, which was then a booming center of development.* 

 About six miles were completed as a wagon road, and six miles more 

 worked sufficiently to be used as a pack trail ; but the cost of the work 

 greatly exceeded estimates, and the time required proved to be double and 

 treble what was expected. Hence, as soon as it became settled that the S. P. 

 R. R. would build to Los Angeles, this wagon road project was abandoned ; 

 but the gulHed and ruined grade still remains to tell the story of a great 

 enterprise of the mining days in South California. In 1887 the business 

 men of Pasadena had a preliminary survey made over this same route 



*Gold mining was going on at Soledad in 1S6S ; but silver and copper mining was a success there 

 earlier ; and in 1876 the place had a paper mill. 



