The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

patron alone furnised the creamery 1857
pounds of milk from twenty-five cows.
The butter was sold for 25 cents per pound,
and after deducting 81 cents per pound
for manufacture, the amount due and paid
him by the directors was $1S4 20.
While eight acres are required to feed
cow on coast range land one acre in this
valley will keep COW in splendid condi'
'tion. In Yolo County butter can be pro-
ouced for 10 cents pound and leave
profit to the producer.
Woodland is under Obligations to Cap
tain H. M. Prlndle and the officers of
Company F, n. G. c., for the conmodious
armorv recently completed. The building
is of brick in the form of fortress. 1t is
a two-story structure with frontage of 80
feet and depth of 130 feet. The west go
feet constitute an immense drill hall and
large hanging gallery that will accom-
modate hundreds Of people. Other por-
tions of the building constitute an armory,
dressing-room, assembly-room, banquet
hall, etc.
No company in the National Guard has
more complete or comfortable quarters
than has the local military.
Woodlands opera-house, now in course
of construction, will be as complete and
perfect in Its appointm ents as any OF the
metropolitan theaters. The exterior will be
unpTeten- tious, but the interior will be
elaborate and tasteful.
The interior of the building will be COX
104 feet. The stage will be 25x30 feet,
which is unusually commodious for the
demands that will be made upon 1T. The
orchestra will seat eighty-eight people, the
dress circle 224 the gallery 300 and the
boxes sixteen. The interior will be beau
tifully decorated, presenting shades ana
tints of the most delicate colors. Every
department will be perfect in detail, which
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a delightful place of amusement.
When the building is completed none
but the most popular travelling companies
will be engaged. Located as this city is,
between Sacramento and San Francisco.
the high-claSs companies that visit the
Coast will find it both profitable and con-
venient to present the best they have in
their repertoires to the enterprising people
of this locality, who are capable of ap-
preciating the favor.
SO much for the towns community life
life built upon good schools and good
society-biessed with healthfui climate
and surrounded by the richest and most
fertile lands in the Sacramento Valley.
But there is serious question which pre-
sents itself whenever Woodlands con-
tinued growth and prosperity are matters
Tor consideration. 1t is irrigation.
1t is a satisfaction to know that the out
of-date methods of the old-t time wheat
rancher are becoming thing of the past
and that the immense ranches are being
subdivided and converted into small hold
ings of 10, 20 and 40 acre tracts. The
holders OF these small tracts especially and
the farming community in general are be-
coming aroused to the consciousness that
their prosperity depends upon irrigation.
and in this growing belief or opinion we
see evidences in every section of this fer
tile valley.
No other place on earth presents such
splendid natural advantages for irriga-
ton as does Yolo County in Cache Greek,
with Clear Lake as its storage reservoir.
But the stumbling block lies in the owner
ship of the Moore ditch, the proprietors of
which control the exclusive right, prac-
tically, to use the waters of Cache Greek