426 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



northwestern part of Pasadena. The principal place of business is Los 

 Angeles. [?] The capital stock is $30,000, all of which has been subscribed. 

 The incorporators are W. S. Wright, trustee ; Wm. R. Staats, John 

 McDonald, W. S. Wright, C. E. Brooks, Joseph M. Campbell." 



N. G. Yocum had developed a small flow of water in this canyon in 1887. 

 The incorporators took it on a note of Yocum' s, of which Wright was 

 trustee ; in 1894 they ran a new tunnel, and reported a stream of four 

 miner's inches. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Raii^roads.— The S. G. V. R. R. (Santa Fe).— The Dummy Road.— The Altadena Road 

 and Los Angeles Terminal. — The Fair Oaks Line. — The Colorado Street Line. — The 

 Painter Line. — The Highland Line. — The Linda Vista Line. — The Alhambra Line. — 

 The Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway. — The Ramona and Pasadena 

 Narrow Gauge (now Southern Pacific R. R.) 



SAN GABRIEL VALLEY RAILROAD. 



This was the first undertaking to connect Pasadena with the rest of the 

 world by railroad, and therefore has a very intimate and close historic con- 

 nection with the development of the city and its adjacent settlements. The 

 railroad was first projected and planned by Mr. S. P. Jewett, a young engi- 

 neer who came to Pasadena from Chicago in 1879, and with his widowed 

 mother, Mrs. Belle M. Jewett, settled on Orange Grove Avenue. 



The first meeting to talk over the project was held in lyos Angeles in 

 September, 1882, when there were present: J. E. Hollenbeck, C. H. Simp- 

 kins, E. F. Spence, J. F. Crank, S. P. Jewett. The first three men feared 

 that such a road could not be a financial success ; there would not be trafiic 

 enough to sustain it, and they declined to join in forming a companj^ to 

 build the road. This delayed the matter nearly a j-ear ; but meanwhile Mr. 

 Jewett stuck to his text, and went on perfecting his plans as to route, grades, 

 curves, bridges, right- of- wa}', station points, terminus, etc.; and finally, 

 through Mr. Crank's efforts, enough men were found who had faith in it to 

 form a company. This was accordingly done at Eos Angeles on August 30, 

 1883, by J. F. Crank, S. Washburn, W. R. Davis, A. Bridgen, W. P. 

 Stanley and S. P. Jewett, who then became incorporated as the "Eos An- 

 geles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad Company," with capital stock fixed 

 at $350,000. The men named constituted the first board of directors, and 

 they elected Crank, president ; Jewett, vice-president, general manager and 

 chief engineer ; Stanley, secretary ; Washburn, treasurer. 



The Valley Union of July 19, 1884, said : "A contract has been let to 

 E. H. Carver of Boston, Mass., to build the whole road, the terms being that 

 it is to be in running order by January i, 1885, to Pasadena." And the same 

 paper August 2 announced that the directors of the "Dummy Railroad" 



