DIVISION SIX — BUSINESS. 4I I 



committee, vice Gibson, absent. On July 13th the directors held a meeting 

 at the sand-box [Devil's Gate] ; and from this time onward their meetings 

 were held in the colony [at the Secretary's house] instead of at Los Angeles. 

 On August 8th Col. Banbury was appointed to take charge of water distri- 

 bution and issue the permits. And he was thus the first Zanjero of Pasa- 

 deua. 



September 12, 1874, mention is made of the lime kiln, and of Banbury 

 and Croft as a committee to look after it ; but no further particulars. Then 

 on October 3d it is mentioned that Eaton and Clapp were authorized to em- 

 ploy a man to chop wood for burning two kilns of lime. [This lime kiln 

 and lime quarry were right where the lyincoln Park reservoir is now, in 

 South Pasadena ; and the lime was wanted for cementing the Orange Grove 

 reservoir, and making cement pipe, etc. — Ed.] On November 7th occurs 

 the first mention of Charles Morgan & Co. [of I,os Angeles] as the con- 

 tractors for excavating the reservoir, although, as I learn from other sources, 

 they had been at work on it from March ; and water was let into one basin 

 of the reservoir, not yet cemented, about the first of July. 



On November 12, 1874, occurred the first annual meeting of the Associa- 

 tion. The treasurer reported $2,862.63 on hand. The Superintendent of 

 water works reported the cost and capacity of the system ; but no further 

 particulars appear in the record. It is strangely deficient. The vote on 

 board of directors for ensuing year is recorded thus : For Eaton, 152 shares 

 voted; Berry, 136; Croft, 150; Porter, 152; Banbury, 138; Gibson, 146; 

 Dr. O. H. Conger, 78. The secretary reported having filed a claim to water 

 in Millard canyon. [This was to supply their body of land now known as 

 Altadena, which then had no water right. And this reported filing seems 

 to have failed to stick, for they finally sold the land without any water right 

 attached. — Ed.] 



The colony's water service went on without any particular difiiculty 

 from year to year, and was finally turned over to their first-born heir and 

 successor, the Pasadena lyand and Water Company. 



The families that came here to live before the water pipe was laid to the 

 reservoir had to haul water from the Arroyo, except Bristol ; he got permis- 

 sion from B. D. Wilson to tap the old Wilson ditch where it came out on 

 the mesa, and from there he made a plow-furrow ditch down to his place, 

 to serve until the colony pipe was laid. This special advantage seems to 

 have determined Bristol's choice of his colony lot. 



THK PASADENA LAND AND WATER CO. 



This company was the successor of the original San Gabriel Orange 

 Grove Association ; and the beginnings or forecast of it is indicated in a let- 

 ter written by D. M. Graham to the Riverside Press July 13, 1880, thus : 



' ' An association of fifteen of the land owners on the ' ' Indiana ' ' side 



