664 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



The first telescope observation ever made from the summit of Mount 

 Lowe was an eclipse of the moon, March lo, 1895, by Prof. Edward Swift 

 and L. G. Abbey. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



Miscellaneous. — The Orange Boom. — The Roller Skating Rink. — The Whitesiders. — 

 The lowans. — The Prize Baby. — Local Poetry. — The Shorb Water Scare. — Wil- 

 liams Hall. — Etc., etc. 



Emendations, and sundry belated matters. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

 This chapter is devoted to such odds and ends of historic memoranda, in- 

 cidents or statistics as seemed worth preserving for future reference, yet did 

 not seem to exactly fit in anywhere else among the more systematized 

 groupings of the many matters dealt with ; and also some additional cor- 

 rections, and belated matters for last chance of insertion. 



THE ORANGE BOOM. 



From a table of statistics gathered in 1879 for the whole San Gabriel 

 Valley, I have compiled the following items of historic interest for Pasadena, 

 from Hist. Los A. Co., p. 131 : 



NAME OF PLACE. NAME OF OWNER. NO. ORANGE NO. BOXES 



TREES. SHIPPED. 



Pasadena Colonists 25 ,000 



Mutual Orchard Mutual Orchard Co 13,650 



Oak Knoll B. D. Wilson & Co 7,750 10,498 



San Marino J. De Barth Shorb 1,700 



Lake Vineyard Mrs. B. D. Wilson 1,100 10,002 



Winston Heights W. H. Winston 2,500 3,323 



El Molino E.J. C. Kewen 1,200 803 



Los Robles Gen. Geo. Stoneman 1,500 579 



Fair Oaks J- F- Crank 3, 000 210 



Fair Oaks A. Brigden 1,300 



Marengo Ranch F. P. Bacon 1,400 204 



Total number of orange trees 60,100 25,619 



In culling from the mass of reports I took nothing east of Santa Anita 



Avenue or the Winston place, but only the orchards within Pasadenaland. 



The boxes of oranges reported were the shipments from San Gabriel station 



in 1879. Another report for 1893-94 said : 



' ' Last season there were shipped from Pasadena eighty carloads of 



oranges, or 24,000 boxes. In this city and vicinity it is estimated that there 



were dried last season 4,000 tons of green fruit, principally apricots, peaches 



and prunes." 



In the Pasadena Star of December 24, 1891, I found a table of orange 

 shipments from Los Angeles county, from which I gathered this list from" 

 Pasadena and its near vicinity : 



