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From: "Peggy B. Perazzo" <>
Subject: Yolo Co., CA - Business Directory - Orchards and Mulberry Trees (ca 1870)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:13:01 -0800
(This is a Message that would have gone through the Yolo County RootsWeb
gateway, but it bounced during the time they were having trouble with the
server. I'm sending this to the list in case you missed it. Peggy)
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JY.2ADE/3933
Message Board Post:
I am transcribing the "The Western Shore Gazetteer and Commercial Directory
- Yolo County," in sections and placing it on the Yolo County CA USGenWeb
Project web site that I maintain. You can view the transcription of the
book at this URL: < http://www.cagenweb.com/yolo/yollnk.htm > The section
below is in the "General Tables - Business Directory" section.
The following excerpts are from "The Western Shore Gazetteer and Commercial
Directory, For the State of California, Yolo County," compiled and
published annually by C. P. Sprague & H. W. Atwell, Woodland, Yolo County,
1870, pp. 526-527.
Business Directory - ORCHARDS & MULBERRY TREES.
ORCHARDS.
RUSSELL, Colonel, 2 miles from Buckeye; eighteen acres of figs.
WEED, Edmond, on the Sacramento river, 8 miles NW from Washington;
twenty-five acres of fruit trees.
WYCKOFF, N., near Woodland; twelve acres of various kinds of fruit.
BELL, George W., Washington; eighteen acres in choice fruits.
EDGAR, James H., 4 miles NW from Cottonwood.
REED, Charles F., Washington; five thousand pear, two thousand quince, as
many cherry, five thousand plum and apple and peach trees in proportion,
many varieties of berries, including the famous LAWTON blackberry and other
choice varieties. For information prices of fruit trees, etc., address
Charles F. REED, Sacramento.
THE DAVIS ORCHARD, formerly owned by Jerome DAVIS, now in the possession of
Messrs. JACKSON, RICE and ROLOFSON, Mr. P. JACKSON three-fifths, D. W. C.
RICE and William F. ROLOFSON each one-fifty; forty-five acres of choice
fruits - figs, pomegranates, cherries, plums, nectarines, peaches, etc.
MULBERRY TREES.
[See "Culture," page 106, for general information under this head.]
THE CALIFORNIA SILK COMPANY" ORCHARD, 1 mile SE from Davisville, contains
one hundred and fifty acres of land, all in nursery and fruit trees,
comprising every variety of fruit common to this section of country, among
which may be found fifteen thousand choice almond trees, nine thousand
young Columbia poplars, two hundred and fifty thousand mulberry trees.
Transcribed by Peggy B. Perazzo
Yolo County CAGenWeb Project Coordinator
http://www.cagenweb.com/yolo/
Stone Quarries and Beyond
http://www.cagenweb.com/quarries/
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