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Freeman, secretary ; Ripley, superintendent. Other officers have changed, 

 but Oscar Freeman has been secretary continuously until now, 1895. The 

 amount of capital is $50,000. Number of employes average about 40. 

 Works located between Broadway and the Santa Fe railroad, below Kansas 

 street. Amount of first year's business, $101,092.74. Amount of last 

 year's business [1894], $68,751.74. The first year's business of the corpora- 

 tion, with its enlarged plant, was the opening year of the "boom," and was 

 before the Mechanics Mill, and another one known as the Lindsay Bros.' 

 Mill, which burned down and became extinct, had brought sharp competi- 

 tion into the field ; hence that was the largest amount of business ever done 

 by this company during any one year. The Board of Trade pamphlet of 

 1888 said of this mill : 



"The firm paid out in the last year $72,000 for labor alone. The lum- 

 ber used per month is valued at $6,000, while the glass, hardware and 

 supplies amount to $25,000 per year, making in all about $13,000 per month 

 distributed in Pasadena by a single firm." 



Mechanics' Mux. — This is an establishment for the making of all 

 manner of woodwork, both for inside and outside finish of any class of 

 buildings. It was started in February, 1887, by R. H. Brent, F. F. Crowell 

 and G. C. Halsey. Building 50 x 70 feet, on Chestnut street at crossing of 

 Santa Fe railroad. C. W. Mann bought a half interest in this mill in 

 January, 1888, then in the fall of same year he bought the other half ; and 

 about September i, 1890, he sold a half interest to G. A. Daniels, the firm 

 being now, 1895, Mann & Daniels. The plant consists of a complete outfit 

 of woodworking machinery and apparatus, run by a 6o-horse power steam 

 engine. Number of employes, sixteen in January, 1895. Amount of capital, 

 $7,000. Amount of business last year, 1894, about $45,800. Early in 1895, 

 this firm moved and reconstructed their old mill, and built an entire new 

 one, 40 X 106 feet, two stories, with all modern improvements, at a cost of 

 about $3,000. 



The lyiNDSAY MiLi.. — In 1885-86, three lyindsay brothers started a 

 planing mill on Waverly Drive. In a few months the establishment burned 

 down and was not rebuilt. 



HoivLAND B1.INDS Factory. — Started in the spring of 1886, as the 

 Holland Manufacturing Co., by W. S. Holland, Chas. Swift, Fred. Swift, 

 Geo. Durrell, with Holland president, Durrell secretary and W. S. Wright 

 attorney. Amount of capital, $16,000. Works located on Champlain street 

 and an alley leading to Peoria street. Plant consists of grounds, buildings, 

 all machinery for the manufacture of Hill's patent sliding blinds and Hol- 

 land's screens, and both steam and gas engines for driving the machinery. 

 Number of employes in the boom time, 30. First year's business, $25,000 

 to $30,000. lyargest amount of business in any one year, $30,000. [The 

 business had been commenced in a small way at first by Mr. Holland, in a 



