The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-16
OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTY.
HOW THE PEOPLE OF YOLO
ARE PROsPERING.
Something About the Enterprising
City of Woodland, Its
County Seat.
Correspondence Record Union.)

| Yolo is a snug little county, in its
! complacency reminding one of the rosy,
butter ball girls that flourish there. 1t
| is as old as the State of California,
though some people say it's name IS
younger; that it was launched in LIE
with another name, and gained it's pres
ent cognomen from the profuse CROWN
| of tule grass along the Sacramento,
rYolo" being the Indian name for tule.
The old, settlers have story on jack
son Temple, the revered patriarch OF
the Supremel bench. They say he start
| ed from Sacramento for SOnoma IN ~,
respondent in a, silk hat and long
coat, relics of the classic shades of Yale.
He came across a stream, whose name
so awoke his curiosity that he followed
it to it's source to find the origin of the
name, and was shockingly disappointed
when he was rewarded. And as that's
the frequent result of the antlquary
who seeks the meaning of Alta Califor-
MIA names, don't let US bother more
over Yolos name.
There's a hitch over the name of the
county seat, also, for some people say
/ that Mrs. Frank Freeman, POLITICALLY
dreaming in the sylvan shades, chose
the name Woodland from the trees that
covered the early site, while others say
the name came from the Woodland
| family some of whom now reside in
Sacramento.
Yolo's wealth and prosperity have
long been noted, and her citizens for
years have pointed to her assessment
roll and low tax. rate, and with pride
claimed that their per capita assess
ment of some 81 400 was the highest in
America. Yolo County has among its
leading industries the Woodland
Creamery, which pays out about $1,000
monthly to it's patrons.
Grain fields cover the whole county,
but, roughly speaking, the crop divi-
sions are Something like this: Western
Yolo-Early fruit and vegetables. Cen
trail belt-Grain. River belt (from the
Colusa line to Observation-Disclosures
districts. Elkhorn to below Washing
ton-Hops. Clarksburg to SOlano line
Alfalfa, potatoes, pigs, pumpkins and
Portuguese
For years the citizens of Yolo lived
prodigally, but low prices for grain, and
droughts, made them look less proudly
at the assessment roll and apprehens-
lively at the Recorders office and the
rapid transfer of the Great Register to
the mortgage books. But the prospect
of renewed prices, together with the
rains have again lifted them up and.
cured by hard seasons of their prodigal
habits it is safe to say the greatest era
of prosperity ever enjoyed by any coun-
| ty now lies before the county of Yolo.
The great fruit belts OF Winters and
the Capay Valley have been developed
| in the past fifteen years, and the
fruit there grown, both for flavor and
early development, is unequaled in the
State.
The early settlers of Yolo were mainly
from Missouri-Monroe, Rails and Pike
counties vieing for supremacy. The
later settlers have come mainly from
Ohio and the other middle Western or
from Eastern States. There is a large
and high-class element of German
Americans throughout the county and
in Clarksburg a large settlement of
thrifty Portuguese are making good liv-
ings out of ten-acre tracts of land.
There are many churches in the
county, and very little crime. The
common school system is we'll devel-
oped, and in four sections of the county
there are high-school or union high
the State has a better record for help
ing young people, Yolo taking a partic-
ular pride in the young men whom she
advances politically.
Speaking of politics, originally the
county was solidly Democratic, but
Colonel Dan Burns broke the solidity
in the '70s. and Charley Garoutte,
now on the Supreme bench, followed by
being elected District Attorney To-
day the county is about $50 Demo-
cratic out of $500 voters. but young
Republican generally beats an old Dem
ocrat, or an old Woodland Republican
an old p-country'' Democrat
Professional men, business men, fra
ternities and social affairs flourish as
we'll as the tillers. of the soil.
Take it all in all-and this scribbler
has been in 80 per cent of the counties
Yolo is the snuggest little county and
has the best prospects of any in Cali
fornia.
The undertaken and the Commissioner
of Bankruptcy are not doing we'll A.
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