The record-union., 1891-10-30
A CAPAY COLONY,
Busy Fruit-GrOwers in a Pretty
Yolo Fallsy-Tancred and Its
Adjoining Farms

| N THE SPRING OF LAST YEaH
Robert A. and Neal D. Barker associated
| themselves with William Mckay. all of car.
iand' with view of searching out a suitahla
location IN which TO engage in the pro6tab,a
occupation of fruit-growing After visit,n,
many localities they decided on the Canav
N"ney' Holo County, and the Rhodes tract az
| Tancred
Negotiations were opened with the Capav
alley Land Company owning the tract i'm
q1estion. With W. II. Mills. the General
Agent of that company, they arranged for thu
purchase of about 22o acres OF foothtu land
This being more than they had thought Of
taking for their own use they spoke to a
number of friends about 1t, with the resu,.
tnat lne tract was divided among the follow.
ing people: b. L. Hiclok, 40 acres: w. r
Earnett, 90 acres; N. T. Greathead. 90 acres.
Mrs l.. Greathead, 20 acres; w. Mckay oO
acres; N. d. Barker, 90 acres; II. A. Barker.
20 acres; ]. P. Brownlee, 20 acres: E. Fl. Has.
| lett, 10 acres; Joseph Barker, 10 acres. A w
helly' 10 acres and Frederick Kelly, 10 acres.
90 iar thls had been merely private ven.
ture OF the gentlemen above named, but in
talking up the question of dividing the land
already purchased, it was found that so MANY
more would like TO join it than the area of the
! purchase would admit Of that il was s,g.
gested on all hands, ''Why not get some mora
| land and divide it up in the same Navpn
Ihen followed the idea of n stock company 70
! take hoid OF larger tract and arrange for the
cuIaVation OF the whole of IL, after subdividing
IL according to the requirements Of the sub
scrihers. A provisional board was formed n
prospectus issued, and finally, on the 5th Of
| June, 1890, the Western Co-operative Col.
onization and Improvement Company was
dCly registered and proceeded to business,
with tne following officers: President. VIII.
lam Mckay; Vfce-President NJ P. Brown:
Directors-H. c. Ellis, Charles Brooke and
X. A. Barker Secretary and General Manager.
| Neal d. Barker Solicitor, c. E. Shook: Treas
| lrer, First National Bank of Oakland.
Ihe balance of the tract 373 acres, was DUR.
! CHASED. A contract was entered into for tho
| purchase OF a large number of fruit trees
| vines, etc. This early purchase of trees was
| the means of saving between $4,000 and
| $4,000 10 the company, the prices in some
cases having more than doubled since then.
The ideas which the prospectus set forth
! have been but slightly modified and the
| progress of the company has been uninter
|
have become enthusiastic, and almost all the
members arranged to set out all their lands i'm
| fruit trees, etc., the first year. Consequently
in this, the first season, some 40, 600 trees and
between 10000 and 10000 vines viii be
p1anreu.
| Inc satisfactory working of this scheme has
mad the effect of attracting considerable at
! tention to the work of the Colony COMPANY
! ana number of people are now desirous OF
! joining in with them. An additional 200
| acres have been added to the sixty acres
| originally purchased.
| For the company is predicted q very bripbt
| future, as Wei as for the beautiful valley in
| which their operations are conducted. How
| this marvellous little garden has come to be so
| long neglected is puzzle to every one who
! has visited it, but one thing is very sure, and
! that is that this neglect will never again ba
! felt in the valley
| Inc fruits set cut are mostly Of the standard
| neutrality-suspicious., apricots Bartlett pears
| prunes, figs, raisin grapes etc, while along
| both sides of the avenues throughout ths
| tract, Walnuts will throw their graceful shade.
| considerable number OF citrus trees are also
! being set out; quite a sufficient number to
| demonstrate that these fruits can be success
! fully grown in the valley, about which the
| colonists appear to have no doubt. provided
proper care is given to the young trees Neal
| D. Barker, General Manager of the company.
resides on the tract, and to his care is to be as
| cribed much of the success of the venture
Mention should be made of the town-site
about which there is a 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 beautffv
by planting in it from time 10 time as many
of the beauties and curiosties of tree and
shrub life as may be obtained by diligent
search and wise expenditure of money. It
is not expected that Tancred win ever be a
large and busy city, but it is thought that IL
can be made very pleasant little place to
dwell in.
petition has been circulated recently and
very largely signed, asking the county to ac-
cept Island avenue, on the colony tract as a
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
Fancred 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 a very wise expenditure of public
| money 70 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 and show
that the country also affords attractions and
comforts and ways of making money pleas.
antly, 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 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 APP
parent success o the enterprise shows that
the ideas and plans of the colony, as set forth
in the prospectus some time ago. arc not inn
practicable: G. T. Hull Berkeley, 5 acres; w.
P. Harmon, Oakland, Ii acres; @. s. Kasson,
San Francisco. II acres; JOS Barker, 10 acres;
A w. Kelly, Kincardine, Ont, 3 acres; N T.
Greathead, 3 acres; r. @, Greathead, Oakland
10 acres; r. A. Barker, San Francisco, 10
acres; N. d. Barker, Tancred, 10 acres; DR.. *.
Favor, San Francisco, 27 acres; J. p. Brownies.
Kincardine, Ont, acres; w. t. Barnett,
Berkeley acres; M. p. Brown, 10 acres;
Chas. Brook, ST., Oakland, 10 acres; w. G.
Boutclle Berkeley, 90 acres; Mrs. T. A. Crelin,
Oakland, acres; G. H. Peach, Tancred, 3
acres; III. @. Ellis Oakland, 10 acres; J. Van.
stone, Winnipeg. 10 acres; h. A. Vanstone,
Tancred acres; E. Wadsworth, Sacramento,
acres; NJ. A. Thomas, Oakland acres;
James Graham, San Francisco, IL acres; A,
Stark q acres; j. Stark, L o acres; Mrs. VI,
Vreoman, acres; C. e. Shook, 10 acres; @.
L. Greathead, 12 acres; VIM. Mckay, s acres;
Mrs. Wrn Mckay, Oakland, 8 acres; Mrs E.
c. Wooley, Brooklyn. n. ", 10 acres; Mrs. II.
Beckley, Oakland, 5 acres; T. 4. Marriott,
acres; J. G. Harrison, Tancred acres The
land reserved by the Colony Company, in.
dingclu townsite, consists OF 81 acres.
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