The record-union., 1891-12-25

Busy Fruit-GrOwers in a Pretty
YolO Valley-Tancred aud Its
Adjoining Farms.

NViV ~. ana Neal ID. Barker associated
| themselves with William Mckay. all of Oak.
iand, with view of searching out n spit.b,.
location In which to engage in the profitable
occupation of fruitgrowing. After visiting
many localities, they decided on the Capav
Valley, Yolo County, and the Rhodes tract AZ
Tancred.
Negotiations were opened with the c,zno,
valley Land Company, owning the tract in
question. With w. II. Mills. the Goparo,
Agent Of that company, they arranged for tho
! purchase of about ego acres of footbIn land
This being more than they had thought Of
taxing for their own Use, they spoke ~ a
| number of friends about it, with the result
thet the tract was divided among the follow.
ing people: b. L. Hickok, 40 acres. w TT
barnett, 20 acres; N. T. Greathead. 20 acraq.
Mrs L. Greathead, 20 acres; w. Mckay %
acres; N. D. Barker, 20 acres: r. A Rar,or
70 acres; il. Brown!ee, 20 acres; E. II. Has
lett. 10 acres; Joseph Barker, 10 acres; A. w
Kelly 10 acres, and Frederick Kelly. / 0 acres
30 lar this had been merely a private ven.
lure OF the gentlemen above named. but in
taking 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 it was suo.
gested on all hands, "Why not get some mora
iand ana divide it up in the same wayq,
1hen followed the idea Of a stock company to
+ take hold of larger tract and arrange for the
cultivation of the whole of it, after subdividina
1t according to the requirements of the sinh.
cerlbers. 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-President, NJ. P. Brown:
Directors-H. C. Ellis, Charles Brooke and
H. a. Barker; Secretary and General Manager.
Neal d. Barker; Solicitor, C. E. Shook; Treas
urer First National Bank of Oakland.
Inc balance of the tract, 373 acres, was Dur
chased. A contract was entered into for the
purchase OF large number of fruit trees
vines, etc. This early purchase of trees was
tne means OF saving between 5000 and
9t'ooo 70 the company, the prices in some
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 uninter-
fupteu. Those who went into it doubtingly
nave become enthusiastic, and almost all the
members arranged to set out all their lands i'm
frult trees, ETC., the first year. Consequently
In this the first season, some &c, 900 trees and
between 10000 and 10000 vines will bs
pIanrec
The satisfactory working of this scheme has
had The effect of attracting considerable at
tentlon to the work of the Colony Company.
and number of people are now desirous of
joining IN with them. An additional 200
acres nave been added to the sixty acres
originally purchased
FOR the company is predicted very BRIGHT
future, as well as for the beautiful valley in
Whlcn their operations are conducted. How
TINS marvellous little garden has come to be so
long neglected is q puzzle to every one who
has visited it, but one thing is very sure. and
tnat Is that this neglect will never again be
felt in the valley.
The fruits set out are mostly of the standard
Varletles-peaches, apricots, Bartlett pears.
pruhes, ugs, raisin grapes, etc. while along
poth SIDES OF the avenues, throughout the
tract, walnuts viii throw their graceful shade
a considerableInumber OF citrus trees are also
being set out; quite sufficient number tn
demonstrate that these fruits can be success
fully grown in the valley, about which the
colonistS appear to have no doubt, provided
ID. Barker, General Manager of the conpanv
resides on the tract, and to his care is to be as
crlbed much of the success of the ventura
Mention should be made of the town-site
about which there is a pleasant innovation
which might with profit be followed by mora
ambitious places. A small park of some thraa
acres has been laid out right in the center of
the town. This park IL is proposed to beautify
by planting in it from time to time as MANY
of the beauties and cl1riocitias
shrub life as may be obtained by diligent
search and a wise expenditure of money tt
is not expected that Tancred will ever he a
large and busy city, but it is thought that it
can be made a very pleasant little place to
dwell in.
a petition has been circulated recently and
very largely signed, asking the county to ae-
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 the
settlers on the east side of the creek access to
Iancred Station. The Tancred colonists are
quite willing to give the necessary right of
way, and are very DESTROYS of having 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.
panics are of widespread benefit to the whole
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 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-
hot
be manufactured or sold on the land The ap-
parent success o I the enterprise shows that
the ideas and plans of tho colony, as set forth
in the prospectus some time ago, are not Inn
practicable: G. T. Hull, Berkeley 5 acres; w.
p. Harmon, Oakland, IL acres; @. S. Kasson,
San Francisco, II acres; Jos. Barker, 10 acres;
A. w. Kelly, Kincardine, Ont. 5 acres. N. L,
Greathead, 3 acres; r. G. Greathea0, Oakland
10 acres; r. A. Barker, San Francisco, 10
acres; n. d. Barker, Tancred, 10 acres; DIR. K.
Favor, San Francisco, 27 acres; ]. P. Brownlee,
Kincardine, Ont, 8 acres; W. T. Barnett,
Berkeley, 5 acres; N. P. Brown, 10 acres;
Chas. Brook, ST., Oakland, 10 acres; w. c.
Boutelle, Berkeley, 20 acres; Mrs. I. A. Crelin,
Oakland, . acres; G. II. Peach, Tancred, 3
acres II. G. Ellis, Oakland, 10 acres; j. Van
stone, Winnipeg, 10 acres; e. A. Vanstone,
Tancred, 5 acres; e. Wadsworth Sacramento,
3 acres; NJ. A. Thomas, Oakland, acres;
James Graham, San Francisco, IL acres; A.
Stark, IL acres; ]. Stark, 10 acres; Mrs NJ.
yrooman, 8 acres; c. e. Shook, 10 acres; @.
T. Greathead, IL acres; VIM. Mckay, 8 acres;
Mrs. VIM Mckay, Oakland. 3 acres; Mrs. e.
c. Wooley, Brooklyn, N. Y, 10 acres; Mrs. II.
Beekley, Oakland, 5 acres; T. A. Marriott,
acres; j. C. Harrison, Tancred 5 acres The
land reserved by the Colony Company, in-
dingcIu townsite, consists of 81 acres.
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