Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-29
FROM TULARE COUNTY.
Transforming Great Tracts into Small,
Pleasant Homes.

Transforming Great Tracts into Small.
Pleasant Homes.
EDS. REcoRD-USIoN: In my last said
might, at another time, describe some of
the new colonies being projected and set
tied in Tulare county. now propose to
redeem that promise. During the past
year there have been four colonies pro-
jected and put upon the market in this
vicinity.
The Russell Colony is the smallest, con-
tanning but one section of land, or !, $50
acres. 1t is located one mile west of Tulare
city, on the S. p. r. R. Water for irriga-
ton is sold with the land Each lot
contains thirty-two acres, and is sold for
81, 500 lot, or a little more than $50 an
acre. The land is covered with oak tim
Der, and is suitable for general farming.
Anona Colony contains two Or three sec
tons subdivided into lots of twenty, forty
and eighty acres EACH with streets and
avenues at right angles, on which the lots
face. 1t is located between Hanford and
Lemoore, on the Huron branch OF the
5. Z. Z. X. \ station is established at the
colony. It's in the center Of the Mussel
slough country, which is a sufficient guar
antee OF the quality of the soil. The land
has mostly, If not all, been cultivated, and
some OF 1t has on it excellent orchard trees
OF two years growth. The land is sold up
from SO to 500 AN acre. The terms Of
payment have not been learned.
The Artesian Fruit Belt Colony contains
2sU0 acres of most excellent land, lying
from two to five miles west of Tulare City.
1t rs divided into twentv-acre lots. An az
enue 100 feet wide is laid out from Tulare
City TO and through the colony. Streets
and avenues mile apart one way and half
mile the other cross each other, so that
all the lots face on one or the other Water
Is but SIX TO twelve feet below the surface
and artesian water can be had BY boring
for it. Besides the tract may all be irri-
gated from the Kaweah Canal Company's
canal, taking water from the Kaweah river.
The lots are sold at from S75 to 500 an
acre, one-third down and interest at 5 per
cent. on deferred payments. There are or
chaFds and vineyards in this colony, which
greatly enhance the value and the prices
per acre OF particular lots on which they
are located
Victor Colony is the fourth named. This
colony begins four miles directly north of
Nlsalia, the county seat. 1t embraces
district of country about fourteen miles
long, ami is two and Il half to five miles
wide, and contains about 10000 acres of
land. II lies on the north side of the Ka-
weah river, sloping toward the river, and is
high valley or prairie land. The soil is of
a reddish clay loan, very rich and fertile,
adapted equally to all the cereals, grasses
and fruits. The upper portion of the colony
reaches the foothills Of the Sierra Nevada
mountains, and is in the thermal or warm
belt. All the citrus fruits grow and do well
here, and no more healthy spot can be
found i'll California or any other State
lot s.rl,, 6
Sllliman, Lyell, Tyndall and Whitney
with their perennial snow-clad sides. form
the background on the east. Circular
ranges of these mountains swing around
from the north and south, inclosing
the colony in a sort of horseshoe
circle the terminus of the circle
on the north being pair of buttes
rising abruptly from the plains like
couple of Egyptian pyramids, 800 to 400
feet high. The kaweah river runs along
the base Of the southern range and Cotton
wood creek along the northern range. or
arm, OF the horseshoe. Both are fringed with
q beautiful belt of oak, sycamore and cotton
wood trees. thus giving the view from all
parts OF the colony, and particularly from
the point where the town of Victor is To-
Gated, grand and beautiful effect.
Water IS to be brought from the Kaweah
river TO lrrigate the whole tract. The SUI
Tey has been made and the location and
size OF the canal staked out. preparatory to
letting the contract. The canal will be Is
leet wide on the bottom, and three feet deep.
and will carry water enough to irrigate
abundantly the whole tract.
The colony will have a central avenue.
loO feet wide, running its entire length
rom east to west, fourteen miles There
Will be other avenues running east and
west mile apart, and streets north and
south, half mile apart, through the en-
tire colony.
The lots which will be twenty. forty and
eighty acres each, will front on the streets
so as to give the houses an east and west
frontage. This arrangement is TO take adj
vantage OF the gentle daily breezes. which
blow from the east in the forenoon and
from the west in the afternoon, as regularly
rs the day comes and goes. These breezes
are most pleasant and health giving fea-
tuTe TO this locality, and seem to be caused
by the peculiar shape OF the valley and the
presence of the lofty, snow-capped noun
tam peaks Just above it on the east.
Inc lands are being sold at from SIS to
so an acre, one-half down, and the bal
ance IN two equal annual payments, with
interest at per cent per annum. All
lands now being offered for sale in the col
ony will be sold with water rights.
Although the colony commences within
four miles of Visalia and the terminus of
the Nisalia Railroad, the town is twelve
miles away from any railroad Railroads
viii soon come, however; as in the noun
tains, within twenty miles Of the town. is
one OF the most extensive and valuable
lumber districts in the State, embracing
the various kinds of pine-the redwood.
ana the Sequoia, or the big trees This
forest IS known as The Giant Forest. and
entries have lately been made in the United
States Land Office here covering a large
portion OF It a rail party in the same in
lcfeSt mas been organized, and a survey
made for railroad to connect with the S.
=. X. r., at Traver, 10 miles directly west
OF Victor The right of way through Vic
tor Colony is being secured, and depot
grounds at the town of Victor have been
applied for and granted. This railroad. be-
sides tapping one of the grandest and most
valuable timber sections in the world
viii drain one of the best and most extern
slve fruit and grain sections in the State
the great plain between the Kings and the
kaweah rivers. In this section is included
. vast warm or thermal belt of foothills. in
which the semi-tropical fruits grow to per
lection. and fruits ripen sooner than in anv
other locality in the State. Thus will it be
seen what the people of Tulare county are
doing through colonies and irrigation. to
settle M the county, and give it wealth and
prosperity IN the near future. Yours truly.
l. \. HOAG.
Victor Colony, October 81, 1885.