548 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



June 22, 1894, ^ corporation was formed called the " Loris Gold Min- 

 ing Company," to operate these Pine Canyon mines under a patent process 

 for reducing the ores and extracting the precious metal in some quicker and 

 cheaper way than by the old stamp-mill process. The inventor of this 

 patent was Geo. W. McGee of Chicago ; and of the new company, the Star 

 said : 



"It is formed with Messrs. Ed. Kennedy, M. McCament, J. V. and 

 Eugene Carson, J. H. Dickey (all of this city), A. W. Myers of Ishpeming, 

 Mich. ; Newell W. Bloss of New York City, and Geo. W. McGee of Chicago, 

 as incorporators. All these gentlemen except Mr. McGee, are now here and 

 have thoroughly examined the property in Pine canyon which the}^ have 

 bought for the purpose above set forth. Thej- will order mill machinery 

 and engine at once, and prosecute the development of the mines and the 

 milling of the ore vigorously, having plenty of capital at their command." 



The company was named "Eoris," from Mr. Kennedy's little daughter, 

 about six years' old, he being the largest stockholder, and was organized by 

 electing Ed. Kennedy, president; N. W. Bloss, vice-president ; J. O. McCam- 

 ent, secretary, and San Gabriel Valley Bank, treasurer. A good pack trail 

 was made from the mines down to the wagon road ; a band of burros se- 

 cured; a mill erected, with ample ore-deck at top; machinery put in; a forty- 

 horse-power oil-burtiing steam engine set in place to drive the mill ; and M. 

 G. Burns, a miner of twelve years' experience in the Black Hills, engaged 

 to superintend the works. The capital by this time invested was said to be 

 about $12,000. 



October 23, 1894, I visited this mill. It was then expected to steam up 

 and commence regular work in two weeks. About 100 assays had been 

 made there at the mill camp, I was told, and had averaged $40 per ton. 

 There were fiftj' tons of ore ready for the hoppers. But the season had been 

 unusually dry, and the water supply from the canyon, being small at best, 

 was growing more scant day by day ; and up to December 15, 1894, the mill 

 was ready for work but lying idle because there was not water enough at 

 command for the necessary uses of the mid and camp. \_Later. — September, 

 1895, I am informed that the Loris mining works have been abandoned and 

 the mill moved away.] 



After the foregoing digression, I quote again from my report of January, 

 1894: 



"The same fissure vein of mineral-bearing quartz crops out also on 

 Echo Mountain, only a few rods northward from the hotel reservoir ; and 

 the east bridle road to Mount Lowe crosses a slide of debris from this out- 

 crop which I named "Temptation Slide," because for twenty years past it 

 has semi-occassionally teinpted some old miner or prospector to follow it up 

 and dig awhile ; and thus it has been "discovered," "staked," abandoned, 

 and rediscovered several times over. It is now staked and claimed by John 

 E. Bennett of Los Angeles, and named the " Professor Lowe Mine ;" but no 

 tunnel or shaft has been worked into it. From this cropping it dips both 



