430 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



with the road. From the Valley Ufiion of September 19, 1885, I gather a 

 few additional points : 



"The charter provided that it should extend from Los Angeles to the 

 eastern extremity of the San Gabriel Valley, a distance of about thirty 

 miles. The route to the terminus, near what are known as " Mud Springs",* 

 was selected with a view to open up one of the richest valleys in Southern 

 California. The Southern Pacific passes through the southern part of the 

 valley, but it is too far distant from some of the most fertile and promising 

 sections situated upon or near the foot-hills of the Sierra Madre range. 

 Such places as Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Duarte, and Azusa needed a close and 

 convenient railroad connection with Los Angeles, the commercial center for 

 all the southern counties of the State. Several surveys were made with the 

 narrow gauge in view, and a part of the right-of-way had been secured and 

 some grading done, when it was decided to abandon the narrow gauge scheme 

 and build a standard gauge road. This was over a year ago, or some time 

 in August, 1884, when the capital was increased to $600,000. The bridges 

 are first-class in all respects. The first across the Los Angeles river is 312 

 feet long, contains 100,000 feet of lumber, 12 tons of cast iron, and 22 tons of 

 wrought iron, and will cost about $10,000. The Sycamore Grove trestle 

 bridge is 450 long and 38 feet high. The bridge over the Arroyo Seco is 

 850 feet long, 38 feet high, and cost about $15,000." 



This Arroyo bridge was built both on a curve and an incline ; and 

 when the Santa Fe company took possession they found it unsafe for their 

 heavy freight and Pullman passenger trains ; they therefore made a new 

 grade along the face of the Gibraltar cliff and crossed the Arroyo on a high, 

 straight, level bridge, thus avoiding also the down and up haul of the old 

 curve line. The old grade along the Garvanza bluff and the curved bridge 

 were sold to the county and converted into a county wagon bridge and road 

 at that point. And the Scoville bridge at Pasadena was also built of timbers 

 from that old railroad bridge. 



The Santa Fe company later extended their line to a tidewater connec- 

 tion at Redondo, and San Diego. 



THE "dummy railroad" PROJECT. 



During the winter of 1883-84 there began to be talk of connecting 

 Pasadena directly with Los Angeles by some sort of rapid transit or street- 

 car service ; and this talk resulted in the organization of the " Los Angeles 

 and Pasadena Railway Company," which was incorporated June 12, 1884. 

 with the following board of directors: P. M. Green, B. F. Ball, W. 

 Thomson, of Pasadena; A. Glassell, A. H. Judson, G. W. Morgan, of 

 Los Angeles ; E. M. Hamilton. Glassell, Judson and Morgan all owned 

 land along the proposed line between Los Angeles and Garvanza. Im- 

 mediately after the incorporation the company issued a prospectus, from 

 which I quote : 



* " Mud Springs " was a great cieuega or body of marsh land about half way between San Dimas 

 and Lordsburg. And the towns of Lordsburg, San Dimas, Glendora, Monrovia, Sierra Madre and La- 

 tuanda Park did not then exist. They were born of the railroad. 



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