The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-05-01
Ideal building Settlement California which Good People
from All the World Making Homes.

shipped. Most Of the meTohandiss
freight for the city of Corning Comes nv
boat. A transfer line hauls the freight
freight line is a great equalizer OF
freight rates.
Most of the wood consumed in Corn
ing and on the colony comes from the
river. The bank is heavily wooded with
oak cottonwood and sycamore for .
width of from one to two miles Much
of this land will cut 200 cords of wood
to the acre. Oak wood at the stump
sells at $3.50 per cord, and for SIS per
cord delivered in town or the colony.
No section in the United States gives
it's settlers better drinking water than
this It Is soft as rain water, and ex-
ceptionally pure. The whole valley in
which haywood Colony is located IL I'M
deriaid with sheet Of this water, which
race. The supply is inexhaustible. At
no place In California can water be
pumped at smaller cost than right
here.
One thing that we brag about is the
character Of the people who have made
their homes here. There are no Japs.
chinese, Italians. Negroes or other OBJ
J0SSAohhOic 1OTelSn element mixed I'D
with us. They are not here because
they are given no encouragement They
are not employed. We prefer to hold
all work for colonists.
An interurban railway has just COM
pleted it's location through the colony
and secured its depot site in Corning
The management assures us that this
road will be in operation before II
months from date. We all know how
demand for property. follows the con-
road of this kind does much more to
populate a country than does a steam
road: With the electric road every mans
Iarm is a depot, but not so with the
steam road, which stops at towns only
There can be no question but that
there is now at work a combination of
conditions which will make of this col
ony settlement an important place. The
indications are that it will soon become
a fancy residential place. for nowhere
for miles on either side Of the colony is
there a place which presents so many
natural advantages for BODYBUILDING as
this. Thousands Of Eastern people have
their eyes on haywood, and just as fast
as they can wind up their Eastern affairs
they are moving here. While there are
now 5000 people here it is safe to say
land owners in the colony are now living
here. They are getting their land while
prices are within reach. Some of them
are having their places planted and
otherwise developed prior to their COM
ing here. Here is settlement in which
good fruit and alfalfa Iand can be pur-
chased for $50 per acre. ten-acre lot
costs $500. Many people are acquiring
one of these lots by paying $50 down,
then $3.50 per month for SO months
No interest is charged on the deferred
payments, and the seller pays taxes on
the land until the payments are COM
pleted This is mighty easy way to
become the owner of ten acres of good
land, in good community, and in a
is being sold in many places at from
500 to $3.50 per acre, and In time Will
sell at these advanced prices in May
wood Colony.
w. N. Woodson, of Corning, California,
is the proprietor of this colony. He has
been at it's head since 1898. He is a
heavy fruit grower at the colony, and
has much to do with the general policy
of the colony management. If you
would care to look into all of the de-
tails of a place like haywood Colony,
write to Mr.. Woodson, and he will send
you printed matter in which there are
maps of the colony, prices and terms for
the purchase of the land, views OF the
business houses in Corning and colony
residences, views of orchards of differ
interest to one looking. about for a
home, or an investment All this printed
matter is absolutely free.