The record-union., 1891-10-26
A CAPAY COLONY.
Busy Fruit-GrOwers in a Pretty
folo Valley-Tancred and Its
Adjoining Farms.
TN THE spR1Na or - -,

THE SPRING OF LAST YEAN
| Robert A. and Neal d. Barker associated
themselves with William MoKpv. ALI Of Oak.
iand, with a view of searching out a sultab,a
location IN which to engage in the proatabls
| occupation of fruit-growing. After vis,tin~
many localities, they decided on the Caoay
Valley, Yolo County, and the Rhodes tract M
! Tancred.
Negotiations were opened with the Capsv
alley Land Company, owning the tract in
Question. With W. IT, Mills, the General
! agent OF that company, they arranged for tha
purchase Of about geo acres OF. footbiI land
Ihis being more than they had thought as
taxing for their own use, they smoke 20 a
number OF friends about it. with the result
/ mat tue tract was divided among the follow.
Ing people B. l.. nicl1olz. 40 acres. w r
Farnett, 90 acres; N. r. Greathcad 90 orrez.
| Mrs. L. Greathead, 20 acres; W. Mckay. %,
| acres; N ID. Barker, go acres: r. A. Barker
| 20 acres; j. p. Brownlee, 20 acres; f. Fl Irns.
lett, 10 acres; Joseph Barker, 10 acres. A W
| Kelly 10 acres, and Frederick Kelly. 10 acres
| so far this had been merely a private ven.
| ture OF the gentlemen above named hrt In
talking up the question of dividing the land
/ N@@N'SNS PNiNhsNsSC, II WIS iOQnu that
more would like to join it than the area of the
purchase would admit of that il was sug.
gested on all hands, "Why not get some moro
| land aud divide 1t up in the same wayqp
| Then followed the idea Of a stock aompanv tn
take hold of a larger tract and arrange for thu
| cultivation OF the whole o. It. after subdividinq
! IL according 10 the requirements of the srh.
! scribers. a provisional board was formed a
! prospectus issued, and finally, on the 5tb Of
| June, 1890, the Western Cooperative Col
| onizatton and Improvement Company was
! duly registered and proceeded TO business,
with the following officers: President. Will
lam Mckay; Vice-President, NJ p. Brown.
| pirectors-H. c. Ellis, Charles Brooke and
Il. A Barker; Secretary and General Manager,
| Neal D. Barker; Solicitor, c. h Shook: Treas
urer First National Bank of Oakland.
The balance of the tract, 373 acres. was mr.
chased. A contract was entered into for the
| purchase OF large number of fruit tees
vines, etc. This early purchase of trees was
| the means of saving between $4,000 and
! $4,000 to the company, the prices in sona
| cases having more than doubled since then.
| The ideas which the prospectus set forth
nave been but slightly modified and the
! progress OF the company has been unfnter-
/ rupted. Those who went into IL doubtinoIv
| 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 10. 600 trees ana
between 10000 and 10000 vines will bO
| p7anreu.
The satisfactory working OF this scheme has
| hRd the effect of attracting considerable at
! tention to the work of the Colony Companv
and 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 a very bright
tuture 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 puzzle to every one who
has visited 1t, but one thing is very sure, and
that is that this neglect will never again bo
| felt in the valley.
| Ihe fruits set out are mostly OF the standard
! Varletles-peaches, apricots, Bartlett pears.
! prunes, figs, raisin grapes, etc. while along
! oolh sides or the avenues throughout the
! tract walnuts will throw their graceful shade.
/ a considerable number 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
! colonlsts appear to have no doubt provided
! proper care is given to the young trees Neal
| D. Barker General Manager of the companv
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 beautify
by planting in it from time to time as many
of the beauties and curiosities of tree and
shrub life as may be obtained by dfligent
search and wise expenditure of money. It
is not expected that Tancred will ever be a
a. tyr 10 -
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 a
county road and to build a bridge across
Cache Creek at this point, in order to give tho
settlers on the east side of the creek access to
rancred Station. The Tancred coIonists ara
quite willing to give the necessary right OF
way, and are very desirous of having q 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 inn
provement, as the operations of such COM
panes 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
The following is 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 a 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 IS set forth
in the prospectus some time ago, are not i'm.
practicable: C. T. Hull, Berkeley, acres; W,
p. Harmon, Oakland Ii acres; O. s. Kasson,
San Francisco, II acres; Jos. Barker, o acres;
A. w. Kelly Kincardine, Ont, s acres; n. T.
Greathead, s acres; r. G.. Greathead, Oakland
/ O acres; r. n Barker San Francisco, 10
acres; n. D. Barker, Taucred, o acres; DR.. K.
Favor, san Francisco, = Z acres; j. P. Brownles.
Kincardine, Ont, 0 acres; w. T. Barnett,
Berkeley, 5 acres; M. p. Brown, 10 acres;
Chas. Brook, Sr., Oakland 10 acres; w. &.
Boutelle, Berkeley, 20 acres; Mrs. T. A. Crelin,
Oakland, 5 acres; G. II. Peach, Tancred j
acres; II. G. Ellis, Oakland, 10 acres; J. Van.
stone, Winnipeg, 10 acres; L. A. Vanstone,
Tancred, 5 acres; E. Wadsworth, Sacramento,
5 acres; NJ. a. Thomas Oakland, 6 acres;
James Graham, SAN Francisco, II acres; A.
stark, ID acres; j. Stark, 10 acres; Mrs BI.
Vrooman, 5 acres; @. E. Snook, 10 acres; @.
T. Greathead, 12 acres; VIM. Mckay, ; acres;
Mrs VIM. Mckay, Oakland, 5 acres; Mrs. Z.
c. Wooley, Brooklyn, n. Y, o acres; Mrs. II.
Beckley Oakland, 5 acres; II. 4. Marriott
acres; J. C. Harrison, Tancred, 8 acres. The
land reserved by the Colony Company, ins
dipgclu townsite, consists of 81 acres.
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