THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



MAYWOOD COLONY. 



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An Ideal Home-Building Settlement in California in which Good People, From 



All Over the World, Are Making Homes. 



As you go, by the Southern Pacific Railway, from 

 Portland to San Francisco, you pass through this well- 

 known colony settlement. On either side of the railway, 

 for a distance of eight miles, you will see orchards of 

 oranges, lemons, olives, figs, almonds, grapes, peaches, 

 pears, prunes and apricots. Scattered here and there 

 among these orchards you will observe well-kept, thrifty- 

 looking home homes that look like real homes. You 

 can't help but note the difference in the appearance of 

 these colony homes and those which you will see both 

 before reaching and after passing through the colony. 

 Outside of this colony settlement you will see, as a rule, 

 little houses and big barns, and that most of the houses 

 are total strangers to paint. But when you strike May- 

 wood Colony you'll see a different class of architecture, 

 and you'll note that all of the houses are well painted 

 and well kept up. These colony houses are the homes 

 of people from the East who have settled here during the 

 past ten years. At the present time there are just 

 about 3,000 people here, and every day some new ar- 

 rival gets off at the colony depot to look the country 

 over. There is yet lots of land in the colony for sale, 

 and there is plenty of opportunity for those who know 

 how to take advantage of it. 



That you may know the exact location of this 

 colony you should be told that it is just 20 miles south 

 of Red Bluff, and just across the Sacramento River 

 from the celebrated Stanford ranch and vineyard. 

 Tehama is the county in which this colony is located, 

 and Tehama Coimty is the most northerly county in the 

 Sacramento Valley. Tehama County is noted for its 

 variety of resources. Its geographical location gives it 

 mountain, foothill and valley conditions. The mount- 

 ains afford endless water power which is being con- 

 verted into electric power, and conducted to points all 

 over the Sacramento Valley. In the mountains in this 

 country are immense sawmills. These mountains af- 

 ford summer range for hundreds of thousands of sheep. 

 This county, by the way, is the largest sheep county in 

 California. 



In the foothills are many delightful homes. The 

 climate is such as to produce the best of apples, beans, 

 potatoes, etc. 



In the valley we have the rich bottom land along 

 either side of the Sacramento River. Here is the home 

 of the sugar beet, of hops, alfalfa, corn potatoes, 

 vegetables, fruits of all varieties, as well as cereals of 

 all kinds. 



The Mayweed Colony is located on the upper end 

 of the Sacramento Valley, just where the valley land 

 begins to undulate in its approach toward the sur- 

 rounding mountains. Its setting js an ideal one, being 

 encircled on the north, east and west by nearby moun- 

 tains from six to fourteen thousand feet in height. 

 While there is practically continuous summer in this 

 valley, perpetual snow rests on the round-about mount- 

 ains. To the eye this contrast is a source of constant 

 admiration. 



Corning is the name of the railway station for 

 the colonv. You arrive here in about thirtv minutes 



after leaving Red Bluff. You can't help but know, as 

 soon as you see it, that it is an Eastern town in a West- 

 ern country. The first object, out of the car window, 

 is the home office of the May wood Colony a striking 

 structure of Spanish architecture, with an observatory 

 or tower one hundred feet high. Stately palms border 

 the office grounds the whole forming an effect most 

 pleasing to the eye that sees beauty in beautiful things. 

 Just across the street from the office you will see the 

 Hotel Maywood, a big, comfortable hotel, surrounded 

 by ample grounds, in which you will see growing 

 oranges, lemons, pomelos and palms, and other orna- 

 mental plants. Right here you have a positive demon- 

 stration that delicate citrus fruits and plants will 

 thrive in the open air in this climate. Back of and be- 

 yond the colony office and hotel stretches out the colony 

 village of about 2,000 population. Corning is an un- 

 usually ambitious and progressive place in fact, Corn- 

 ing is a city, for it was recently incorporated as a city, 

 with an area of 1,170 acres within the corporate limits. 



And the first important move than the citizens took 

 was to vote the town a dry town so that saloons 

 might be kept out. The people who are settling here are 

 of a moral, home-building kind, and the sentiment is 

 strong against saloons. 



Corning has five general merchandise stores, one 

 of which is a co-operative store, with some 180 mem- 

 bers. There are two good hotels, two newspapers, two 

 telegraph offices, two lumber yards, two livery stables, 

 an express office, telephone office, bank, a cannery and 

 fruit packing house, an up-to-date creamery and a lot of 

 other business houses usually found in thrifty towns. 



Corning is especially proud of her six churches, 

 three of which would be counted as good church struc- 

 tures in a city of 10,000 people. By this you'll see that 

 Corning is looking well to the spiritual side of life. 



To her schools, Corning has also given unusual 

 thought and support. In the grammar school nine 

 teachers are employed, while in the high school six 

 teachers are provided. In the colony, and outside of 

 the town of Corning, there are three additional gram- 

 mar schools. 



That you may understand the exact relation sus- 

 tained between the City of Corning and Maywood Col- 

 ony, let me explain : Maywood Colony contains 39,000 

 acres of land, divided into blocks of 80 acres each, with 

 40-foot avenues bordering each and every block. Each 

 of these 10-acre blocks is subdivided into eight 10- 

 acre lots. The colonists buy and own from one-half a 

 lot to four lots. Most of them own two lots, or 20 

 acres. Now, right out of the center of this 39,000-acre 

 tract 1,170 acres have been cut oiit and cut up into busi- 

 ness, residential and villa lots. By this you'll see that 

 Corning and Maywood Colony are one, but that the rail- 

 way station and postoffice go by the name of Corning, 

 while the adjoining land is legally known as Maywood 

 Colony. The cause of the two names for the same 

 place is that the railway station and postocffie were es- 

 tablished long before the colony was started. Prior to 

 the coming of Mavwood Colonv this same land was used 



