The record-union., 1891-09-21
A CAPAY COLONY,
Busy Fruit-Growers in a Pretty
Yolo Valley-Tancred and Its
Adjoining Farms

| C SfhtNG OF LAST YEAR
hooert A and Neal D. Barker associated
themselves with William Mckay. all OF Oak.
iano with a view of searching out a suitab,a
looatlon IN which to engage in tho prohtah,a
occupation of fruit-growing. After VISITING
many localities, they decided on the Capav
Valley, Yolo County, and the Rhodes tract at
Tanered.
Negotiations were opened with the canov
aiiey Land Company, owning the tract In
qleStion' With w. II. Mills, the General
Agent OF that company, they arranged for ths
purchase of about 22o acres OF foothin lana
1hls being more than they had thought Of
taxing for their own use, they smoke m q
number of friends about it. with the result
that the tract was divided among the follow.
| ing people: b. L. Rickok, 40 acres. w y
Farnett 20 acres; N. Il. Greathead. 90 acres.
Mrs L. Greathead, 20 acres; ". Mckay %
acres; n. d, Barker, 90 acres; r. A. Barker
~ acres; j. T. Brownlee, 20 acres; E. II. Has.
lett' 10 acres; Joseph Barker, 10 acres: A. w.
Kelly 10 acres and Frederick Kelly. 10 acres.
30 lar this had been merely a private ven.
Vure OF the gentlemen above named. but in
taiklns up the question of dividing the land
already purchased, IL was found that so MANY
more would like to join IL than the area of tba
purchase would admit Of that IL was Sne
gested on all hands, "Why not get some mora
land ana divide 1t up in the same wavqD
iiler loiioWeo the idea Of stock company to
'aAe hoid OF larger tract and arrange for the
cultivation OF the whole oft, after subdfvidina
II according 10 the requirements Of the sinh.
| scrloers a provisional board was formed a
| prospectus issued, and finally, ON the 5th Of
June, 1890, the Western Cooperative Col.
onization and Improvement Company was
ouly registered and proceeded TO business.
with the following officers: President. VIII.
lam Mckay; Vice-Presdent, NJ. p. Brown.
Directors-H. C. Ellis, Charles Brooke and
H. A Barker; Secretary and General Manager.
Neal u. barker Solicitor, c. e. Shook; Treas.
orer, First National Bank of Oakland.
Inc balance OF the tract, 373 acres was pur-
chased. A contract was entered into for the
purchase OF a large number of fruit trees.
vines, etc. This early purchase of trees was
the means OF saving between $4,000 and
94'ooo 10 the company, the prices in some
cases having more than doubled since then.
Inc Ideas which the prospectus set forth
nave been but slightly modified and the
! progress OF the company has been uninter.
rupted. Those who went into Il doubtipgIv
nave become enthusiastic, and almost all the
| members arranged to set out all their lands IN
iruit trees, etc., the first year. Consequently
IN This, the first season, some 40, 900 trees and
between 10000 and $4,000 vines viii ha
pRnreu.
the satisfactory working of this scheme has
had the effect of attracting considerable at-
tentlon TO the work of the Colony Company
a bar If
Joining In with them. An additional 200
acres have been added to the sixty acres
originally purchased.
FOR the company is predicted a very bright
future, rs well as for the beautiful valley in
which their operations are conducted How
TINS marvellous little garden has come to be so
long neglected is puzzle to every one who
mas VISITED IL, but one thing is very sure, and
that Is that this neglect win never again be
felt in the valley.
The fruits set out are mostly of the standard
Varletles-peaches, apricots, Bartlett pears,
Prunes, dgs, raisin grapes, etc, while along
both sides of the avenues throughout the
tract, walnuts will throw their graceful shade
Aconsiderablesnumber of citrus trees are also
peing set out; quite sufficient number to
demonstrate that these fruits can be success
Iully grown in the valley, about which the
coloniSts appear to have no doubt, provided
proper care is given to the young trees. Neal
u. Barker, General Manager of the company.
Feslces on the tract, and to his care Is to be as
eribed much of the success of the venture.
Mention should be made of the town-site
about which there is pleasant innovation
which might with profit be followed by more
ambitious places. a small park of some three
acres has been laid out right in the center of
the town. This park it is proposed to beautifv
by planting in it from time TO time as r,an0
OF the beauties and curiosities of tree and
shrub life as may be obtained by dilisent
search and a wise expenditure of money. II
is not expected that Tancred win ever be a
large and busy city, but it is thought that it
can be made very pleasant little place to
dwell In.
petition has been circulated recently and
very largely signed, asking the county to &c
cept Island avenue, on the colony tract as q
county road, and to build bridge across
Cache Creek at this point, in order to give the
settlers on the east side of the creek access to
Tancred Station. The Tancred colonists are
quite willing to give the necessary right Of
way, and are very desirous of having a bridge
there, as the colony lands extend along both
sides OF the stream. 1t is thought that it
would be very wise expenditure OF public
money to grant them this very necessary i'm
provement, as the operations of such COM
panies are OF widespread benefit to the whole
county and State The attractions and COM
forts of the cities are well known, but to those
who are willing TO settle on the land aud show
that the country also affords attractions and
comforts and ways of making money pleas
Rntly, every inducement should be held forth
The following is a list of the principal men,
bers of the Tancred Colony, with the number
of acres owned by each, and a fact worthy of
mention is that in each contract or deed is
sued by the Colony Company there is pro-
vision that no intoxicating liquor shall ever
be manufactured or sold on the land The ap-
parent success. o. the enterprise shows that
the ideas and plans of the colony, as set forth
in the prospectus some time ago, are not inn
practicable: G. T. Hull, Berkeley, acres; w.
P. Harmon, Oakland, ii acres; G. S. Kasson,
San Francisco, II acres; Jos. Barker, / acres;
A w. Kelly, Kincardine, Ont 5 acres; N T.
Greathead, 5 acres; r. G. Greathead, Oakland
10 acres; r. A. Barker, San Francisco 10
acres; n. D. Barker, Tancred, 10 acres; Or. E.
Favor San Francisco, 81 acres; j. p. Brownlee.
Kincardine, Ont, acres; w. K. Barnett,
Berkeley, 5 acres; M. p. Brown, 10 acres;
Chas. Brook, ST., Oakland, 10 acres; w. G.
Boutelle Berkeley, go acres; Mrs. r. a. CreIin
Oakland, acres; G. II. Peach, Tancred, 8
acres; H. G. Ellis Oakland, 10 acres; J. Van
stone, Winnipeg, 10 acres; E. A. Vanstone,
Tancred, 8 acres; e. Wadsworth, Sacramento
acres; III. a. Thomas, Oakland, 6 acres
James Graham, San Francisco, II acres; A.
Stark, 12 acres; j. Stark, 10 acres; Mrs. nj.
Vrooman, acres; G. E. Shook, 10 acres; @.
t. Greathead, 12 acres; VIM. Mckay, 5 acres;
Mrs. VIM. Mckay, Oakland, 5 acres; Mrs. E.
O. Wooley, Brooklyn, N. Y, 10 acres; Mrs. II.
Beckley, Oakland, 5 acres; T. a. Marriott 5
acres; j. c. Harrison, Tancred, 8 acres. The
land reserved by the Colony Company, IN.
dingclu toWnsite, consists of 81 acres
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