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The following additional wells were noted, without learning their street 

 locations: G. N. Briggs, 83 feet, with 12 feet water; E. H. Rojxe, 91 feet, 

 with 7 feet water ; J. Butler, bored and iron-tubed well, 70 feet, with 30 feet 

 water; D. W. Shellhamer, 83 feet; Mr. Biedebach, 186 feet; Mr. Gripper, 

 83 feet ; Messrs. E. A. Bonine, James Williams, Joseph Wallace and others 

 also have wells, the figures of which were not obtained. John Werner, 

 J. Butler, and Mr. Hammond expressed confidence that they can obtain 

 artesian water by going down 500 to 1,000 feet. 



Here are fortj^-six wells named within the neighborhood known as 

 Pasadena, varvdng in depth from fourteen to 490 feet deep, and scattered 

 about in all parts of the settlement ; and there are probably ten or twelve 

 more not noted. It is therefore prettj^ plain that Pasadena has resources to 

 soak the heads of dry weather croakers, even should the clouds go farrow 

 and the mountain streams dwindle all this year. [March, 1885.] 



[Note. — Mr. John S. Mills, mentioned above, has since informed me 

 that he dug his well in 1882 ; that water was found at fifteen feet from the 

 surface, and at twenty-one feet it came in so fast that it yielded twenty gal- 

 lons per minute, and drove the workmen out. The John Werner well re- 

 ferred to was first dug by Hon. P. M. Green, a short time before Mills's 

 well, and a moderate supply of water was obtained at a depth of forty-seven 

 to fifty feet. Then after Mr. Werner bought the place he drilled this well 

 about fifty feet deeper, and more than doubled the suppl)^ of water, having 

 penetrated the bed of clay which Judge Eaton refers to as occurring in his 

 tunnel and others along the Glacial Terrace. This claj' formation is the 

 ' ' boulder clay ' ' of geology, and was originally the fine mud that settled 

 along the borders of a glacier — then it was covered by later material, and 

 pressed into a tough, arenaceous clay (intermixed with boulders and cobble- 

 stones) by the weight of deposits above it.] 



Since the above list of wells was published, in March, 1885, a great 

 many other wells and tunnels have been dug in Pasadenaland, and I have 

 obtained notes on a few of them. In 1887, when the Oak Knoll syndicate 

 was engaged in subdividing and improving their picturesque tract they dug 

 a well 140 feet deep. Water was first found at twenty-two feet; and at 

 fifty-six feet a water-bearing stratum was reached, which made the water 

 rise six feet in the well, and it remained at that height — only sixteen feet 

 from surface — but boring was continued to a total of 140 feet from the 

 surface. Then a steam pump was tried, and it could not perceptibly lower 

 the water line. July 6, 1895, I investigated this well again ; and found the 

 steam pump at work lifting 4,420 gallons of water per hour for ten hours 

 each day, without perceptibly lowering the supply. George Hyatt was the 

 engineer in charge. The covered reservoir at ground level holds 250,000 

 gallons ; and the tank, twenty-one feet above ground, holds 60,000 gallons. 

 About a fourth or third of a mile farther south on this tract there is a series 

 of tunnel and trench surface springs which yield a good supply of water. 



In 1887, Harold vS. Channiug dug a well on his father's place on Orange 



