The San Francisco call., 1897-11-07


Republican in politics and was edited tor
many wears by W. r. Ellis. j. H. Dun
gun. former editor of the Livermore Her
aid. is its present editor and proprietor.
! The Home Alliance, weekly local news
paper. is owned and controlled by women
and is run in the interests of the W. [. L.
II. It was established in July, 1891. Mrs.
! s. A. Huston is edltress and publisher
The Fruit Industry.
One Of the important industries of
! Woodland is her Fruit Exchange, run on
! the cooperative plan 1t mas oeeh III suc-
cessfuI oreration for four years, ana our
ing that time has given employment 10
| many deserving men ana women us
m EN- bership includes aDout Sixty OF ING
most prominent iruit-groWer5 IN the Vi
cinity of Woodland. The exchange ware
house is situated near the railroad Depot
! and Is under the management OF H. u
| Howard, one of the best authori'les IN
the country on fruit culture. Inc Dusl-
| ness OF the exchange will be sure 10 ll'
crease from year to year, tor thl 10 'ne
! home of the grapevine. Our ra SIN Vlne'
yards are not only among he largest III
area, but The most productive per acre.
! The late R. B. Blowers often sara that
there was 100 square miles OF frult lano
around Woodland that cin beat the earIn
growing olives, prunes ard pears. April
cots and almonds grow equally well, and
new orchards are beiDg set out and ofh-
! ers coming into bearing every year. NO
limit can be placed on the future enlarge
ment of the fruit business in our city,
| The Yolo orchard, five miles from
Woodland, gave employment to 400 peo-
| pie through the fruit season this year.
Banks and Business Houses.
There are four regular banks in Wood
land, the Bank of Woodland, the Bank Of
Yolo, the Merchants and Farmers Bank,
and the Yolo Savings Bank, also build
ing and loan assoc alton. All these lnstl-
tutions are reliable and possess the cont-
dence of the people in marked degree.
The Bank of Woodland was incorpo-
rated in 1868. The paidup capital is $685.
100; its surplus is 1925, 498 J. D. Stephens
| is president, c. F. Thomas cashier, f. S.
Freeman ~Iee- president. This bank is at
present offering for sale 100 acres OF
land, in parcels of thirty to eight thou
sand acres, at less than foreclosure prices.
The Bank of Yolo was esta blisned in
1883. and has paid-up capital OF $3OO.o0
which Is au4mented by a surplus OF $780,
900. The following well-known men are
the officers: w. w. BrownelI, president;
! A. w. Gable, vice president: c. W. Bush,
cashier.
Woodland has only one savings bank.
1t was established in 1891. The SUBJ
scribed capital is $1,000 of which
amount 500, 900 has been paid in. LIS re-
serve fund is SIS C01. 1t pays in annual
div denGs 4 per cent per annum on term
deposits and l per cent on ordinary
deposits. The officers are: a. D. Porter,
president; H. G. Gable, vice. president,
and J. T. Mcconnell. cashier. The affairs
of the bank are we managed and depos-
itors have implicit confidence in the re.
liability of the institution.
The Merchants an Farmers Bank
opene for business January 2, 1894, in
handsoms red stone building on the cor.
ner of Main and Second stree is. Its
authorized capital is $500 600. subscribed
capital 1856 500. of which 40 per cent is
paid Its officers are: D. N. Hershey,
president; G. g. Day, vice president;
NJ. o. HarIing, cashier.
The Building and Loan Association has
been the means of many persons in mod
crate circumstances securing home and
competence by depositing small sums
every month with the association. 1t is
run on the cooperative plan.
fine new opera-house was built in
| 1896 to take the place of the one destroyed
be fire several years ago. 1t has seating
capacity of ESQ., but will comfortably hold
| 1000 people, with Stage facilities unex-
celled in Northern California.
No town car be considered up to date
that has not got laundry run exclusively
by white labor 1t gives employment to
men and women wLo spend their earn
ings with the business men of the town.
and the danger of contracting contagious
diseases is much less than in Chinese
| washhouses. Woodland is not behind in
this respect, for white laundry has been
! in operation more than twelve years.
Thomas Bullivant is tie proprietor, and
his work compares fGvoraby with the best
laundrie, in the large cities. Most of the
work is done by hand, and the clio hes are
called for and delivered promptly with a
horse and wagon kept Tor that purpose.
There are tivt hotels in the city, The
Byrns, Julian. Capital, Craft and Pacific
House, and several lod ging houses and
one restaurant, the Delmouico. The lum-
bsr-yards are the West VALLEY, Sierra
Lum Der Company and Woodland Lumber
Company. On our business streets We
have five ry-goods store, eight grocery
stores, two hard ware stores, three furni-
ture-stores, three livery sta bles four mill
linery- stores, four real estate firms, three
butcher-shops, seven blacksmith shops,
two jewelry-st stores. three harness-shops
and four drugstores.
Ire professions are well represented,
and our prote ssional men and women will
rank equally with those in cities Of much
larger pretensions than Woodland. There
are two women physicians in our city and
! two women lawyers. The court reporter
is a member of the gentle sex, also. Her
name is NJ ss Halle Williams.
The physicians are d.. Elizabeth Yates
and DIR. Frances /. Newton. The lawyers
are Miss Nora Andrews and Miss Matte
| Fisher.
What Woodland needs most is manu-
featuring establishments that will give
permanent employment 10 the laooring
classes. There is movement On loot to
build a hourmill, and 1t ought to succ ed.
| There is also promise OF a fruit cannery