The record-union., 1891-08-19
A CAPAY COLONY.
Busy Fruit-GrOwerS in a Pretty
Yolo Valley-Tancred and Its
Adjoining Farms.

! THE SPRING OF LAST YEAR
robert y. and Neal D. Barker associated
themselves with William Mckay. all of Oak.
iand' with view of searching out a suitable
location IN which to engage in the profitable
occupation of fruit-growing. After visiting
many localities, they decided on the Capay
valley, 1olo County, and the Rhodes tract az
Tancred
negotiations were opened with the Capav
| alley Land Company, owning the tract in
! question. With w. II. Mills the General
! agent OF that company, they arranged for the
/ purchase of about ego acres of Goothtu land
This being more than they had tbopqbt ~
! taking for their own use. they smoke ~ .
! number OF friends about it. with the resuIt
! 'haI tne tract was divided among the follow.
/ ing people: b. l.. Ricllok, 40 acres; VT
Earnett, 20 acres; n. T. Greathead. 20 acres.
| Mrs l.. Greathead, 20 acres; w. Mckay %
acres; n D. Barker, 30 acres; r. A. Barker
! 20 acres j. P. Brownlee 20 acres; e. II. Has.
! Iett 10 acres; Joseph Barker, 10 acres; A. w.
Kelly 10 acres, and Frederick Kelly. l o acres.
| 30 lar this had been merely q private VEN
! ture of the gentlemen above named. b1t in
/ talking up the question of dividing the land
| already purchased. 1t was found that 81, many
more would like 10 join it than the area of IN,
purchase would admit Of that it was sug-
gested on all hands, ''Why not get some more
land and divide it up in the same wovqn
Then followed the idea of a stock companvt IN
take hold Of larger tract and arrange for the
cultivation of the whole of it, after subdivldfny
| II according to the requirements of the sinh.
! scribers a provisional board was formed. a
| prospectus issued, and finally, on the 5th Of
June, 1880, the Western Cooperative Col
! oniZation and Improvement Company was
duly registered and proceeded TO business.
! with the following officers: President, VIII
! lam Mckay; Vice-Prcsident, NJ. p. Brown.
! Dircctors-H. c. Ellis, Charles Brooke and
| H. A. Barker; Secretary and General Manager,
Neal d. Barker; Solicitor; c. Z. Shook; Treas
urer, First National Bank of Oakland.
! The balance of the tract, $73 acres was Dur.
| chased. 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
! $4,000 to the company, the prices in some
| cases having more than doubled since then
| Ihe ideas which the prospectus set forth
| have been but slightly modified and tho
| progress of the company has been uninter-
| rupted. Those who went into it dCubtincly
| have become enthusiastic, and almost all the
members arranged to set out all their lands in
fruit trees, etc, the first year Consequently
i'll this the first season, some 40, 900 trees and
| between 10000 and 10000 vines will be
| planted.
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Inc satisfactory working of this scheme has
| had the effect Of attracting considerable at
| tention 70 the work of the Colony Companv.
| and number of people are now desirous OF
! joining in with them. An additional goo
| acres have been added to the sixty acres
| originally purchased.
hor the company is predicted n very bright
! future, as well as for the beautiful valley in
| which their operations are conducted How
! this marvellous little garden has come to be so
long neglected is g puzzle TO every one who
has visited it, but one thing is very sure. and
that is that this neglect viii never again be
felt in the valley
me fruits set out are mostly of the standard
neutrality-suspicious., apricots Bartlett paare
prunes, figs, raisin grapes, etc, while alone
both sides of the avenues, throughout the
tract walnuts will throw their graceful shade.
A AconSidcrableEnumber of citrus trees are also
being set out; quite sufficient number TO
demonstrate that these fruits can be success.
| fully grown in the valley, about which the
| coIonists appear to have no doubt provided
| proper care Is given to the young trees Neal
| ID. 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 towu-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 1t is proposed TO bCautify
| by planting in it nom time to time as many
! Of the beauties and curiosities OF tree and
| shrub life as may be obtained by diliGent
| search and wise expenditure OF money It
| is not expected that Tancred will ever be
| large and busy city, but it is thought thatEt
can be made q very pleasant little place to
| dwell in.
| A petition has been circulated recently and
! very largely signed, asking the county TO ac-
! cept Island avenue, on the colony tract, as Il
| county road and TO build q bridge across
! Cache Creek at this point, in order to give the
! settlers on the east side OF the creek access to
! rancred Station. The Tancrad colonists are
| quite willing to give the necessary right Of
way, and are very desirous of having bridge
| there as the colony lands extend along both
/ sides of the stream. IT is thought that 1t
| would be a 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 or the land and show
! that the country also affords attractions and
| comforts and ways Of making money pleas
| antiy, every inducement should be held forth.
| Tie following is a list OF the principal Tnem-
! bers of the Tancred Colony, with the number
of acres owned by each, and n fact worthy OF
I fI,of a1h 1T do sr
| sued by the Colony Company there is q 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, are not inn
practicable: c. T. Hull, Berkeley, acres: W.
| z. Harmon, Oakland, Ia acres; G. 8. Kasson,
San Francisco, IL acres; JOS Barker, / acres,
a. w. Kelly, Kincardine, Ont, > acres; N T.
| Greathead, 8 acres; r. G. Greathead, Oakland
10 acres; II. a. Barker, San Francisco o
acres n. d. Barker, Tancred, 10 acres; DR.. X.
| Favor, San Francisco, 27 acres; j. P. Brownlee.
| Kincardine, Ont, . acres; w. L. Barnett,
! Berkeley, . acres; NJ. p. Brown 10 acres;
| Chas. Brook, Sr., Oakland, 10 acres; w. c.
! Boutelle, Berkeley, 20 acres; Mrs. r. A. Creln
/! Oakland, 5 acres; c. II. Peach Tancred, .
! acres; II. G. Ellis. Oakland, 10 acres; ]. Van
stone, Winnipeg, 10 acres; E. A. Vanstone,
! Tancred, 5 acres; e. Wadsworth Sacramento
S acres; M. A. Thomas, Oakland, g acres
| James Graham, San Francisco, II acres A.
| Stark, 12 acres; j. Stark, 10 acres Mrs. NJ.
| Vrooman, 5 acres; G. z. Shook, 10 acres; q
T. Greathead, 12 acres; VIM. Mckay, 5 acres
Mrs. VIM. Mckay, Oakland, 5 acres; Mrs h
G. Wooley, Brooklyn, N. Y, 10 acres; Mrs ID.
Becxley, Oakland S acres; T. A. Marriott D
| acres; J. G. Harrison, Tancred, 3 acres. Inc