The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-12-30

Busy Fruit-Growers in a Pretty
YolO Valley-Tancred and Ito
Adjoining Farms.

! THE SPRING OF LAST YEAR
Robert A. and Neal d. Barker associated
! themselves with William Mckay. all of Oak.
/ land, with a view of searching out a suttable
! location in which to engage in the prostobIa
occupation of fruit-growing. After visiting
many localities, they decided on the Capay
Valley, Yolo County and the Rhodes tract az
Tancred
negotiations We're opened with the Capay
Valley Land Company, owning the tract in
question. With w. H. Mills the General
Agent of that company, they arranged for the
! purchase of about geo acres of foothtn land
This being more than they had thought OF
taking for their own use, they spoke to a
+ number OF friends about it, with the result
/ that the tract was divided among the follow.
/ ing people: B. L. Rickok. 20 acres. w n
Barnett 20 acres; n. T. Greathead. 20 acres.
! MIS- L. Greathead, 20 acres; w. Mckay. 90
acres; N d. Barker, 20 acres; r. A. Barker.
! 20 acres j. P. Brownlee, 90 acres; f.. ii. Has.
lett, 10 acres Joseph Barker, 10 acres; A. w.
Kelly 10 acres, and Frederick Kelly. ! O acroa
ne
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 tbe
/ purchase would admit of that 1t was sug.
gested on all hands, 'Why not get some mora
! land and divide it up in the same wayqD
/ Then followed the idea of stock company to
take hold of larger tract and arrange for the
cultivation OF thewhoIe of it, after subdivlding
/ it according to the requirements of the sub
J scribers. A provisional board was formed.
! prospectus issued, and finally. on the 9Th Of
June, 1890, the Western Cooperative Col
! onlzatlon and improvement Company was
duly registered and proceeded to business.
with the following officers: President, Will
lam Mckay; Vice-President, NJ. P. Brown;
! Dlrectors-H G, Ellis, Charles Brooke and
II. A. Barker; Secretary and General Manager,
Neal D. Barker; Solicitor, @. E. Shook; Treas
3! urer, First National Bank of Oakland.
Inc balance OF the tract, 373 acres, was pur-
chasea. 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 50, 900 and
/ $4,000 TO the company, the prices in some
IL.
The ideas which the prosuectus set forth
have been but slightly modified and the
| progress OF the company has been uninter-
rupted. Those who went into it doubtingly
I nave become enthusiastic, and almost all the
] members arranged to set out all their lands in
frult trees, ETC., the first year. Consequently
IN this, the first season, some &C, 900 trees and
between 10000 and 10000 vines will be
pIanJeo.
The satisfactory working of this scheme has
nad the effect of attracting considerable at
! tenuon to the work of the Colony COMPANY
and number of people are now DESTROYS Of
joining in with them. An additional 900
acres have been added to the sixty acres
originally purchased.
For the company is predicted a verv 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 puzzle to every one who
has visited it, but one thing is very sure, and
that is that this neglect will never again be
felt in the valley.
The fruits set out are mostly of the standard
neutrality-suspicious., apricots, Bartlett pears
| pruneS, figs, raisin grapes, etc. while along
both sides of the avenues, throughout the
tract, walnuts viii throw their graceful shade.
n censiderable.number of citrus trees are also
being set out; quite a sufficient number to
demonstrate thatthese 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
crlbeoalnuch 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 curioslties of tree and
shrub life as may be obtained by dfligent
search and a wise expenditure of money, 1t
is not expected that Tancred will ever be n
large and busy city, but it is thought that It
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 a
county road, and to build bridge across
Cache Greek at this point, in order to give thu
settlers on the east side of the creek access to
Taucred Station. The Tancred colonists are
quite willing TO give the necessary right of
way, and are very DESTROYS 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 TO grant them this very necessary i'm
provement, as the operations of such cora
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 list of the principal mem
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 ego, are not inn
practicable: C. T. Hull, Berkeley, 3 acres; w.
P. Harmon, Oakland, Il acres; C.S. Kasson,
San Francisco, il acres; Jos. Bar 10 acres;
A. w. Kelly, Kincardine, Ont, 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; DR.. K
Favor, San Francisco, 27 acres; J. P. Brownlee,
Kincardine, Ont, 9 acres; w. T. Barnett,
Berkeley, . acres; NJ. P. Brown, 10 acres;
Chas. Brook, ST., Oakland, 10 acres; w. @.
Boutelle, Berkeley, 20 acres Mrs. r. A. Crelin,
Oakland, acres; c. II. Peach, Tancred, 5
acres; II. C. Ellis, Oakland, 10 acres; ]. Van
, stone, Winnipeg, 10 acres; E. A. Vanstone,
Tancred, 3 acres; E. Wadsworth, Sacramento
5 acres; NJ. A. Thomas, Oakland, acres;
James Graham, san Francisco, II acres; A
stark, IL acres; ]. Stark, 10 acres; Mrs NJ
: Vrooman, acres; G. =. Shook, 10 acres; c.
i. Greathead, IL acres; VIM. Mckay, 8 acres;
Mrs. VIM. Mckay, Oakland acres; Mrs. E..
C. Wooley, Brooklyn, n. X, 10 acres; Mrs II.
Beckley, Oakland, 5 acres; I. a. Marriott, 5