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June 30 they shipped 60 car loads (about 18,000 boxes) to Chicago, Buffalo, 

 West Virginia, Missouri, Texas, Montana. Their pay roll in 1895 showed 

 from 8 to 28, with an average of 20 employees at work. They used the old 

 Santa Fe freight depot below California street for a packing house. The 

 ofl5cers in 1895 were: Geo. F. Kernaghan, president; B. F. Ball, vice- 

 president ; J. F. Jones, secretary ; First National Bank, treasurer. 



Nurseries. — There have been so many of these enterprises, both large 

 and small, beginning with the first year of the colony, that I could not 

 undertake to give an account of them. 



MANUFACTORIES. 



The Pasadena Manufacturing Company. — C. B. Ripley came to 

 Pasadena from Maine in 1876, and was one of the earliest contractors and 

 builders here. Then in 1878 Harry Ridgway came here from Canada, and 

 was the first man to open a regular architect business in Pasadena. Upon 

 getting acquainted they formed a partnership and carried on business 

 together ; and in 1884 they built the first planing mill here. This was 

 located nearly where the Union Ice Co.'s office and warehouse are now, on 

 East Union street. This mill had the second steam engine ever run in 

 Pasadena (Joseph Wallace's cannery having the first), and it startled the 

 natives by steaming up and blowing its whistle vigorously for the first 

 time on Tuesday evening, July 29, 1884. The next day the mill started on 

 its regular daily runs for business. The firm at this time had in hand a 

 $3,000 residence for H. W. Magee ; a $2,000 residence for G. H. Tower; a 

 $4,000 business building for W. H. Wakeley ; a dwelling for Geo. H. 

 Little on upper Fair Oaks [now called Lincoln] Avenue ; a new school 

 house at Monks Hill, and another one on East Colorado street. These 

 particulars I gather from the Valley Union of August 2, 1884. Mr. Ripley 

 had projected the mill enterprise and was happy in it, for he was a mill man; 

 but Ridgway preferred his own special work as an architect, and was very 

 willing to unmill himself. Meanwhile a plan was formed to enlarge the 

 mill business into a stock corporation for general manufacturing of all kinds 

 of house finishings, trimmings, etc. A meeting to consider the matter was 

 held in Williams Hall December 10, 1886. Another meeting was held 

 December 16, when organization was effected, under the name of "Pasadena 

 Manufacturing Co." — and on December 20 the company was incorporated, 

 according to Oscar Freeman, the company's secretary ; but the county 

 records give December 10, the date of the first meeting, as date of incor- 

 poration. Nearly the same names occur at all these meetings, and hence I 

 only give the names enrolled as first members of the corporation, as follows: 

 C. B. Ripley, B. F. Ball, James Clarke, W. P. Forsyth, Oscar Freeman, O. 

 M. Arnold, P. M. Green, G. W. Pillbeam, R. WilUams, M. H. Weight, M. 

 S. Overmire. The same men were named as board of directors ; and the 

 first officers were : Forsyth, president ; Ball, vice-president ; Green, treasurer; 



