The record-union., 1892-02-09
A CAPAY COLONY.
Busy ruit-Growers in a Pretty
Yclo Valley-Tancred and Its
Adjoining Farms.


many localities, they decided on the Capay
valley, Iolo County, and the Rhodes tract at
Tancred.
Negouatlons were 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 22O acres OF foothiu land
ms being more than they had thought OF
taking for their own use they spoke to n
number of friends about it, with the result
that the tract was divided among the follow.
ing people: b. L. Rickok, 40 acres w. t.
barnett, 20 acres; Y. T. Greathead, 90 acres.
Mrs l.. Greathead 90 acres; w. Mckay. 90
acres; n. d. Barker, 20 acres; r. A. Barker
20 acres; j. P. Brownlee go 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 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 it was sur-
gestec on all hands, 'Why not get some moro
land and divide IL up in the same wavou
Then followed the idea of a stock coropapv tn
take hold of larger tract and arrange for the
cultivation of the whole of it, after subdiyidinp
1t according to the requirements of the sub
Scrloers. provisional board was formed a
prospectus issued, and finally. on the eth NJ
June, 1890, the Western Cooperative Col.
onization and improvement Company was
otly registered and proceeded to business,
with the following officers: President. Will
lam Mckay; Nice-President NJ. p. Brown.
Directors-H. c. Ellis, Charles Brooke and
IT, 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 pur.
ehaSeo' A 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
Inc ideas which the prospectus set forth
have been but slightly modified and the
progress OF the company has been uninter-
rupted. Those who went into it doubtingly
have become enthusiastic and almost all the
members arranged to set out all their lands in
fruit trees, etc, the first year. Consequently
in this, the first season, some 40, 900 trees and
pIanIeC.
The satisfactory working OF this scheme has
had the effect of attracting considerable at
tention to the work of the Colony Cononany
and a 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 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 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 oat 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.
A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 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
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 dlirent
search and wise expenditure of money II
is not expected That Tancred will ever be n
large and busy city, but it is thought that it
can be made very pleasant little place to
dwell in.
A petition has been circulated recently and
very largely signed, asking the county to ac-
eept Island avenue, on the colony tract, as q
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
rancred Station. The Tancred colonists are
quite willing to give the necessary right OF
way, and are very desirous of having a bridge
there, 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
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 a 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 OF the enterprise shows that
the ideas and plans of the colony, as set forth
in the prospectus some time ago, are not i'm
practicable: c. I. Hull, Berkeley, acres; w.
p. Harmon, Oakland, IA acres; G. S. kasson,
San Francisco, IL acres; JOS. Barker, o acres;
A. w. Kelly, Kincardine, Ont, 3 acres; n. T.
Greathead, 3 acres; r. 6. Greathead Oakland
10 acres; r. A. Barker, San Francisco, 10
acres; N. d. Barker, Tancred, % acres; DIR. Il.
Favor, San Francisco, 81 acres; j. p. Brownlee
Kincardine, Ont, 8 acres; w. T. Barnett
Berkeley, 5 acres; NJ. p. Brown, 10 acres;
Chas. Brook, ST., Oakland, 10 acres; w. G..
Boutelle, Berkeley, go acres; Mrs. I. a. Crelin,
Oakland, 5 acres; C. II. Peach, Tancred, 3
acres; II. c. Ellis, Oakland, 10 acres; ]. Van
stone, Winnipeg, 10 acres; f. A. Vanstone,
Tancred, . acres; E. Wadsworth, Sacramento
5 acres; NJ. A. Thomas, Oakland, 6 acres
James Graham, San Francisco, IL acres; A.
stark, LIZ acres; j. Stark, 0 acres; Mrs. NJ
Vroonan, 3 acres; c. Z. Shook, I o acres; c.
I. Greathead. 12 acres; VIM. Mckay, 5 acres;
Mrs. VIM. Mckay, Oakland, 8 acres; Mrs. 4.
C. Wooley, Brooklyn, n. Y, 10 acres; Mrs II.
Beckley Oakland, 5 acres; L. A. Marriott 3
acres; J. C. Harrison, Tancred, acres. The
land reserved by the Colony Company, in
uinsclu townsite, consists of 81 acres.