420 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



"The elect therefore are Messrs. Justus Brockway, H. F. Goodwin, 

 Thomas Banbury, R. Williams, C. C. Brown, M. H. Weight, and W. Free- 

 man, the term of which new board is for one year from February 4th. The 

 proposed amendment to the By-L,aws was defeated. 



"The result of this, of course, is a change in the policy of the Com- 

 pany, the only point at issue in the election being a difference of opinion as 

 to the wisdom of settling certain unsettled points between this and the old 

 ' ' Orange Grove ' ' Company on terms proposed by the latter. The old 

 board have held those terms to be unjust and have steadily declined a settle- 

 ment on that basis. Many of the stock-holders differed with them in opin- 

 ion, and it was on this difference of opinion that the opposition ticket was 

 nominated and elected. A settlement ot the long-vexed " water question " 

 may therefore be expected at once, and to that end one of the first acts of 

 the new board will be to submit the question to a vote of the stock holders." 



The question was so submitted again on May 4th, 1886, and here is the 



Union's report : 



THE WATER QUESTION SETTLED. 



"Tuesday's vote gave the following result : 



No. of persons voting for the proposition 1 36 



No. against 28 



Majority by persons 168 



Or nearly five to one. 



No. of shares voted for the proposition 1,855.78 



No. against 725-31 



Majority by shares 1,130.47 



Or about two and a half to one. 



"It is a grand result for every future interest of the colony ; and let it 

 go abroad to all the world, with no uncertain sound, that Pasadena no 

 longer has a " water question." That has been settled at once and forever, 

 in the genuine American way, by the free and voluntary suffrages of those 

 who were lawful voters in the case." 



January i, 1889, the lands, reservoirs, pipes, etc., of this company were 

 valued at $154,403.26; and during that year new pipes were laid to the 

 amount of $9,577.88. 



During the year 1892, the company expended $50,112.22 in tunneling, 

 reservoiring, pipelaying, etc. Two miles of 4-inch pipe was laid from Res- 

 ervoir No. I direct to the Raymond hotel, for special use of the hotel and 

 its grounds. During this year and 1893, the old colony mudhole known as 

 Reservoir No. 2 was deepened, its earth walls raised and strengthened, the 

 entire inside cemented, and 5,000 feet of 16-inch steel pipe laid from Reser- 

 voir No. I as the feed-pipe to No. 2. Its storage capacity is 21,000,000 

 gallons — the largest cemented reservoir in South California at the time. 

 And Villa street was opened straight across the lower end of the old reser- 

 voir site, instead of circling around it as before. It was during these years 

 that the extensive tunneling operations were carried on at Devil's Gate to 



