4l8 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



diflferent proportions of water right. The titles and boundaries, and the 

 methods of gathering and dividing the waters were all somewhat vague, 

 giving rise to disputes, and at last to costly and fruitless lawsuits — in fact, 

 a hot dispute once occurred near Devil's Gate, when shotguns were bran- 

 dished, and threats of "ducking" in the ditch, etc., were indulged in. And 

 these doughty belligerents still survive, as veterans of the "water war." 

 The Umo?i of July 17, 1885, contained a brief report of a mass meeting 

 held in Williams hall on the 13th, at which Geo. E. Meharry presided, 

 Chas. A. Gardner served as secretary, and C. C. Brown was the principal 

 speaker — all on the " water question." The same date of paper also had a 

 report of a general public picnic held at Devil's Gate on the 15th for speech 

 making, questioning, discussion, and investigation of the "water question" 

 under the auspices of this new company, of which C. C. Brown was then 

 president.* And the same paper also contained the following announce- 

 ment : 



"A public meeting of the citizens of Pasadena in the interest of a 

 peaceful settlement of the water question is called for Saturday evening, 

 July 18, at Williams Hall. Let all who desire a peaceful settlement of our 

 unfortunate difficulties be present and lend their influence to that laudable 

 end. Signed 



" J. Banbury. S. Townsend. B. F. Bryant. 



R. Williams. H. W. Magee. A. A. Williamson. 



Albert Ninde. J. E. Clarke. D. M. Graham. 



S. D. Bryant. Ridgway & Ripley. H. H. Markham. 

 M. M. Parker. Chas. Eegge. P. M. Green. " 



Eyman Allen. 

 These are historic waymarks on the road through the colony wilderness 

 up to the goodly land of promise, as we now have it. The next issue of the 

 paper reported that the "peace" meeting was held on Monday instead of 

 Saturday ; and it resulted in a formal request for a joint committee : 



From the Pasadena E. V. Land and Water Co 4 



From the Eake V. Land and Water Association i 



From the Pasadena Eand and Water Co 3 



To confer together, and devise and recommend some plan or terms of settle- 

 ment of the existing difficulties. 



This movement, however, produced no visible results, for the new 

 company had a family skeleton in their own closet. Their vote on the syndi" 

 cate proposition, January loth, was for some reason not satisfactory; and in 

 October it was tried again on the same proposition, the names of H. F. 

 Goodwin and O. S. Picher being added to those of Magee, Meharry and 

 Clarke. The result was reported in the Union of October 9, 1885, thus : 



"The election held Saturday [October 3, 1885], by stockholders of the 

 Pasadena Eake Vineyard Eand and Water Company to decide upoii buying 



*I attended this picnic; and it was then that I first noticed and called attention of friends to the pecu- 

 liarly marked rocks there, which I have since identified and described as "slickensides," " glacial enam- 

 elings," and " water carvings." 



