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Chinamen. They also have a machine for making pressed brick, for smooth- 

 finish work. This factory has furnished 90 per cent of all the brick used 

 in Pasadena since 1889. The company's entire property is estimated at 

 $20,000. 



HouLAHAN & Griffith's brickyard was started in 1894 ; but I have 

 no data of it. 



Fertii^izer Works. —The California Commercial Co. was incorpor- 

 porated November 15, 1888, by Belle M. Jewett, T. F. O'Riley, P. M. Jew- 

 ett, J. D. Bicknell, Mrs. E. C. Bangs, S. P. Jewett. Prior to this Mrs. 

 Jewett had erected a long brick building on Glenarm street and the Santa Fe 

 railroad, having leased it in advance for a term of years to F. ly. Rockwell, 

 who engaged to carry on an ice factory and cold storage business there. The 

 collapse of the ' ' boom ' ' froze out the zeal of the ice-maker, and his promised 

 refrigerating plant was never put in. The Commercial Co. was then organ- 

 ized to utilize the building for storage, commission, forwarding, and other 

 lines ; and also as the business office for their fertilizer works at Chapman 

 station on the Santa Fe railroad, east of I^amanda Park. These works 

 manufacture bones and all kinds of slaughter-house refuse into fertilizing 

 material, and have a capacity to manufacture 3,000 tons per year. S. P. 

 Jewett, president ; J. D. Bicknell, vice president ; G. A. Herdeg, secretary ; 

 First National Bank of Pasadena, treasurer ; L,. E. Jordan, superintendent. 



lighting and power works. 



Pasadena Gas and Electric L,ight Co. — Early in 1886 the proj- 

 ect of establishing electric light works began to be discussed, and resulted 

 in a list being made of persons who thought they would be willing to sub- 

 scribe something for such an enterprise. These subscribers met in Williams 

 hall March 25. Col. O. S. Picher, chairman ; Frank M. Ward, secretary. 

 It was voted to place the capital stock at $40,000, in 1,600 shares of $25 

 each, and incorporate as the " Pasadena Gas and Electric Light Co." The 

 Union reported $16,000 subscribed in Pasadena, and that Dr. E. Mellis 

 would place $8,000 of the stock in San Francisco. April 9 there was an- 

 other report of progress. Then on May 10 the Union says : 



"The Pasadena Gas and Electric Co. held a stockholders' meeting at 

 Williams hall yesterday afternoon, and elected the following officers : C. T. 

 Hopkins, Emmons Raymond, P. M. Green, R. Williams, G. A. Swartwout, 

 B. S. Eaton, and S. W. Bugbee, directors ; president, Hopkins ; vice presi- 

 dent, Swartwout ; treasurer, Green ; secretary, Williams : 545 shares ot 

 stock were represented, Mr. Raymond having taken 160 shares." 



May 8 appears in the county records as the date of their incorpor- 

 ation. I found no further mention of their progress until October 2, 1886, 

 when the Pasadena Union said : " M. G. Elmore, contractor for building 

 the gas works, has 100 men at work on trenches, pipes, buildings, etc. The 

 Carlton and the Raymond hotels are to be lighted with gas by November i." 



