4o6 HisT^oRY OF pasade;na. 



through the mountains, for the prospective Los Angeles and Salt lyake rail- 

 road, and claimed that the grade would be only about 87 feet to the mile. 



Hodge's Traii,. — See " Hodge's Peak," page 374. 



IviNDA Vista Trail. — See Linda Vista peak, page 374. 



Fremont's Trail (?) — In one of Prof. Holder's books, and several of 

 the Board of Trade pamphlets, "Fremont's trail" is mentioned as one of 

 the objects of historic interest. Yet Fremont never "trailed" within ten 

 miles of it, [See page 68 for points.] 



Carson's Trail, or the Loris Gold Mine Trail. — During 1893-94 

 Messrs. E). V. Carson and Jesse Dickey were engaged in developing their 

 gold mining claims in Pine canyon, and made a pack trail up the west wall 

 of the canyon for transporting the ore down from their mines on mules or 

 burros, to the wagon road in the mouth of the canyon. See article on 

 "Gold Mines," in Chapter 29. 



RuBio Water Trail. — The Rubio Canyon Water Company has a trail 

 which starts at the foot of the east wall of the canyon, on Rubio farm, and 

 extends up the crest of the main ridge between Rubio and Pine canyons to 

 an elevation of over 3000 feet — then along the inner slope of the east wall 

 to some tunnels which the company has made in the waterbearing gulches 

 away in above the great Leontine Falls. For a romantic and interesting 

 mountain tramp this is not excelled. The Pine canyon gold mines can also 

 be reached by the same route. But the foot of this trail can onl}'^ be reached 

 by crossing the private enclosures of Rubio farm. 



JOHN MUIR'S mountain CLIMB IN PASADENALAND. 



Well, who is John Muir? Why, he is the man who has climbed more 

 mountains, walked more miles, lain out more nights, and discovered more 

 glaciers than any other man known to history. Glaciers was his hobby. 

 In Harper' s Monthly for November, 1875, he gives an account of the 

 " Living Glaciers of California "; and says he has discovered no less than 

 sixty-five of them in the Sierra Nevada mountains, between latitudes 36° 30' 

 and 39°, his first discovery being in October, 1871. These living glaciers 

 form the head fountains of the San Joaquin, the Tuolumne and the Owens 

 rivers. He was also the first explorer of the great Muir glacier of Alaska^ 

 which rightly bears his name. He was the editor of a notable art-work 

 published in 1888, entitled " Picturesque California, and the region West of 

 the Rocky Mountains from Mexico to Alaska." Also author of the "Moun- 

 tains of California," published by the Century Co., New York, 1894. 



John Muir was a classmate with Dr. O. H. Conger in the State Uni- 

 versity at Madison, Wis., when Dr. Ezra S. Carr of Pasadena held the chair 

 of Natural Science in that noble institution. Dr. Conger settled in Pasadena 

 in 1874; and in the summer [August] of 1875 John Muir came to visit him 

 and renew old acquaintanceship. At that time no man had ever gone from 



