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VALLEY OF CUZCO.
Among the Palaces of the Early
Peruvians.
Facts Concerning a Wonderful People
—Natural Groves of Fruit Trees and
Fields of Wild Strawberries—Palace
of the Incas.
[Special Correspondence of Record-U?:ioj.-.1
Cuzco, Peru, 1891.
Among many remains of antiquity
which the pilgrim to this Peruvian Mecca
must not fail to visit, perhaps the most
important are those found on a near-by
hill, called Sachahuaman. Here was not
only the fortress that defended the ancient
capital, but the palace of Maneo Capae,
the first Inca. Hy the way, the word
Capac signifies "powerful" in the Peru
vian tongue, and was applied to several
Of Mftnco's successors —as was Yupaixjui,
meaning "rich in all the virtues." Ir.ca
means king or monarch.
In the old days Saehahuaman had sev
eral terraces, each lour yards high and
proportionately long, reached by a stair
way passing- through a sort of tunnel.
This opening led to a vast inclosure, sur
rounded by walls twenty feet high, v. hi< h
Contained numerous narrow niches, like
Jupboards. This fortress, said to have
been built about the year 1113, is :i re
markable picco of work, and held the
same relation to Cuzco that "the Rock"
docs to Gibraltar or the Acropolis did to
Athens. It consists of three terraces, 71>7
feet higher than the city, reached by a
winding road which was so constructed
that it could be easily defended. Military
men say that its walls were built in ac
cordance with the best engineering sci
ence of modern times, its oniy assailable
side being provided with salient?, so that
its defenders could cover every point by it
parallel fire. The walls were composed
of immense blocks of cut limestone, and
each salient h.id one of these at its end.
Blocks measuring fifteen feet long, twelve
wide and ten feet thick, are common in
the outer walls, and there is one great
stone twenty-seven fee! high, fourteen feet
wide and twelve feet thick, piled upon
another of almost equal dimensions. Ke
membering that these enormous masses
were hewn from the hills and fashioned
into a shape by a people ignorant of the
use of iron; that they were brought from
distant quarries without the aid of boosts
of burden, raised to their elevated posi
tion on the sierra and adjusted with the.
nicest accuracy without machinery, one
is tilled witli astonishment. Twenty thou
sand men are said to have been employed
for iifty years on this great structure; and
it was but a part of a system of fortiiica
-110113 which the Eneas established through
out their domains. There were throe tow
ers on Sachahuaman, each aome distance
from the others; one most elaborately
carved, for the use of the Inca, and tho
others held by a garrison of Peruvian no
bles, commanded by officers of loyal
blood —for the position was considered of
too great importance to be intrusted to in
ferior hands. Below the towers were sev
eral subterranean galleries communicat
ing with the city, now mostly obstructed
by fallen dobris.
Cuzco was also defended on the other
Bide by a single wall of great thickness,
1,200 feet long, and in another place by
two semi-circular walls of the same length;
separated a considerable distance. All
were built of heavy blocks of cut lime
Btoue, and though no cement was used,
the enormous stones were so carefully
adjusted that to this day a knife-blade
cannot be thrust between them.
The best idea of how the old capital
must have looked before the conquest
maybe trained in the street now named
Trinnfo. The remains of several ancient
palaces are ineoporated into its modern
houses, among thorn the House of the
Virgins of, the Sun. There is a sort of
ancient-shaped platform, which is be
lieved to have been the principal altar oi'
sacrifice in tho Sun temple; and the fa
mous Piedra Haroada, or ''stone with
cuttings," which shows seats, steps, ba
pins and altar, all hewn oat of immense
rock. Near by is the Roadero, or "place
where the sun was tied up"—a gigantic
Ktone ring, which shows the meridian of
Cuzco. Ihe old aqueduct, which brought
water to the city from Lake Chichcros,
twelve miles away,, was partially de
stroyed by the Spaniards; and there is
another, even more curious, which leads
down from tho lofty fortress, mostly by
underground passages.
Among tho sights of modern Cuzco
which the tourist must not neglect are the
Museum of San Andres; a wonderful arch
and some spiral steps in the Church of
La Compania; a comical, but much vene
rated painting, representing purgatory,
in tho Church of Sail Francisco; a pit tilled
with water behind the High Altar of the
Cathedral, which is believed to have been
an Inca bathing pool, fed by unknown
springs; the Oasa of Senor Don Silvac,
wherein the Spanish soldiers played with
dice for the golden Sun stolen from the
temple; some remarkable arches in the
inner court of ihe Convent of La Merced;
a beautifully carved pulpit of jet black
wood in the Church of Santa Ana, repre
senting on twelve panels tho lives and
acts of the Apostles; in short, wherever
one turns something strange and. inter
esting evokes admiration.
Remains of many other temples, fort
resses and palaces .may be found in the
neighborhood of Cuzco. Thero are vill
ages whose people live in stone 00404 that
were erected live or six centuries ago—
their walls unchanged, though tho
thatched roofs have been many times re
newed. In other places, the lazy half
breeds have built little huts of cane
and straw by the side of the more sub
stantial dwellings of their ancestors,
rather than to take tho trouble of renew
ing the larger roofs.
Various delightful excursions may be
made from Cuzco without incurring groat
fatigue. It is a pleasant horse-back rido
of only twenty-four miles to Lake lluai
po, on the road to Urubamba, The latter
Indian town, as well as Yucay and Hu-
ByU'ura. is quaint enough to repay a
visit. They lie in the Valley of Ucayali,
where both cHniate and scenery are tho
most perfect on tlie face of the earth. In
this Peruvian Kden are natural groves of
iruit trees—figs, apricots, mangoes,ehir
juoyus, 1 tc— and immense tields of wild
strawberries. Yucay was the ancient
bathing resort of the Incaa and th<-ir
••ourts. There are cxhaustlcss springs
and pools and sparkling rivers, feu from
the eternal snows of the mountains, aud
many basins of hewn stone that probably
served for private reservoirs. A good
~tri;m may walk through this eharin
valley and enjoy every mile of it.
We rode, 1 arrying no outfit \wt the inev
itable Icodac, and everywhere met with
most hospitable entertainment from the
poor but kindly people.
From Urubamba to OOataytambo is
twelva miles, under the shadow of wide
spreading trees, which, (lining half the
year, are a mass of scarlet "blossoms,
while a mountain river ripples on cnc!i
side of the way. Just before entering
Ollataytambo. one sees, high up on a wall
ol" sandstone, the colossal ngnxe of ;•• man
outlined in veins of iron oxide. «>f course
it Is a freak of nature, but many super
stitious stories are told concorniug its
origin, and no native will pass the place
without taking oil' his bat, crossing iiim
self and repealing an A. ye Marie. Close
by this apparition are three stone Booms,
now stained yellow, which appear to hang
like birds'-iu-.-ts on the very blink of a
pi dpice, high ap tho mountain aids,
and are said t<> have been Incaliosgitala.
One may spend a profitable week in
Ollataytambo examining ruins and forti
fications; and will be sure of a welcome
in the house of tho curate. Tho village
is doubly interesting from having been
tbe stronghold of Ollanto, a dusky noble
who fell in love with tin- beautiml daugh
ter of Eoria Tupac Yupanqui, and stole her
from the House of the Virgins of tin- Sun
in Cuzco. lie kept her. too, in spite of
all the hosts of the empire, for five long
years; until captured at last by strategy,
by a warrior whoso unspellable name
iri«H)n<! "M>m wi:!i the sto:v eyes" —^> '.- ::
SACRAMEOTO DAILY BECORD-tOStttXtf, SATUBDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1891.-EIGHT PAGES.
he and his sweetheart wero burned alive
in the great square of Cnzeo.
One would liketo know something defi
nite about the several millions of re
markable people who were ruling nearly
one-quarter of the Western world al
most up to the time when our northern
half of the hemisherc began to attract the
attention of Europeans*, .and whose de
scendants, mixed with the blood of their
conquerors, still oaoupy this region. They
left no records, except s;:ch as wero carved
in stone, and those the Spaniards did
their worst to eil'aee. Yet when one
comes to search for it, there is a mass of
literature, principally in the fTmtWsii
language, bearing upon the subject; but
BO mixed is it with romance and specula
tion, that one finds it impossible to dis
tinguish truth from fable.
Certainly the Incus must have been a
very wise and industrious people, and
peraaps the secret of their power lay in
the wisdom of. their industry. The
topographical aspect of most of tne coun
try appears so unfavorable to purposes of
agriculture and internal communication
that one wonders bow so vast a popula
tion could have found rapport. Nature
works on so immense :i Bcale in these
parts that it is only when viewed from a
great distance one can faintly compre
hend the relation of the several parts to a
stupendous whole. The Andes rarely
run in a single line, but more frequently
in several parallel or oblique chains. The
numerous huge volcanoes that look to
the voyager on the-Pacific like independ
ent musses, are all peaks of the same
magnificent system so often called'"the
backbone of tne hemisphere," that, com
ing northward from tin Btraits of Magel
lan, attains its loftiest elevations near the
equator, then gradually subsides as it
neais the. Isthmus, rising again in the
i picturesque mountains of Central Amer
j lea, tUo Siena Madras of Mexico, the
Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas of the
North.
The early Peruvians dubbed these stu
pendous heights "copper mountains,"
Antct (moaning copper) being the
original word, which the Spaniard cor
rupted into "Andes." Their western
steps, with splintered and precipitous
sides of granite and porphyry, and the
higher regions wrapned En snows that
resist oven the equatorial son and melt
i only under their own volcanic fires, do
not offer a wore encouraging field to the
farther than the deserts where rain seldom
falls, that stretch between them and the
ocean. Yet every rod was utilized, and
in order to waste no available inch of soil
they buried their dead in caves and built
theif own dwellings upon rocks. They
I terraced every hill and mountain to its
I summit, the terraces being oiton narrow
| as the steps of a stairway and walled with
atones; and they iilled every crevice in
the rock with soil where there was room
for a stalk of corn to grow. These evi
dences of their patient toil are still plainly
to be seen, and often the aerial gardens
lie on such steeps that one wonders how
anybody could have found foothold to
cultivate them. In order to utilize the
deserts—which seldom exceed fifty miles
in width and sometimes narrow down to
four or five —they excavated groat areas
in the sand until they reached sufficient
ni'iistare for vegetation, and then brought
guano from distant islands of the Pacific.
Their irrigation system was perfect, their
ditchi b extending hundreds of miles and
curving around the hills, here sustained
by bleb, walls of masonry, there cut
i through the solid rock, or carried over
i!i" valleys 0:1 enormous embankments.
Massive dams and reservoirs were built
to collect the floods that came from the
melting snows of the mountains, and this
supply was conducted to rainless locali
ties.
One would think that communication
would fte impossible between the differ
ent parts of the long, narrow lnca terri
tory, !>y reason of the wilduess of the
mountains with their awful precipices,
furious torrents, and numerous quc
brtulaa, or '"breaks," whose depth the
traveler, winding along a pathway far
above the clouds, vainly endeavors to
fathom. Baron yon llumboldt says:
"There are crevices so deep that if Ve
suvius or the Puvde Dome wero seated
!in the bottom of them they would not
1 rise to the level of the surrounding
rridges." Yet an industrious population
i lived along the ridges of the loftiest pla
! teuus, while towns and hamlets, in the
I it of orchards and gardens, seemed
ended in mid-air. The populous
is of Quito are nearly ton thousand
above the sea, and there are even
er valleys and plateaus. Intercourse
maintained between these numerous
[>mcnt by means of the royal roads
traversed the mountain passes, open-
May communication between Cuzco
the remotest parts of the empire; and
>ld roads are better to-day, though
■r repaired, than any the Spaniards
! since made,
c government of the Eneas, however
Scary in form, was truly patriarchal
pirit. The policy they pursued for
j tho prevention of evils that might have
disturbed the perfect order of things is
exemplified in their provisions against
poverty and idleness, in these they dis
cerned the two groat causes of disaffection
in a populous community and wisely
guarded against them. The unremitting
industry of the people was secured iiot
only by their compulsory occupation at
home, but by their constant employment
in those public works which covered
every part of the country, and which still
bear testimony, even in decay, to primi
tive grandeur. By the lnca laws, human
j labor was regarded not only as a means,
but an end. Their manifold provisions
I against poverty were so perfect that in
their wide territory, so much of it bleak
mountain and barren desert, no man,
I however humble, suffered for the neces
saries of life. Famine—a, scourge so com
mon at that period, not only in every
other American nation, but in the civil
ized countries of Europe—was an evil
j here unknown.
Most of the Spaniards came to Peru
merely In quest of gold, intending to re
turn with their loot to the mother coun
try; and though circumstances compelled
many of them to remain, they made no
effort to improve upon, or even to pre
serve, the works they found. Their de
[sc udantsare still searching for treasure
among the tumble-down palaces of the
[ncas, and the visitor to any ruin is sure
to find some out-at-olbows half-breed dig
ging among the rubbish for buried gold,
j I. xactly how much plunder the con
querors under Pizarro secured can never
t>e known. Robinson, l'rescott and other
j historians tell amazing tales of the wealth
10l the Eneas—bow Atahualpa's faithful
subjects piled the room in which lie was
imprisoned mil of gold to the very top in
rain efforts to satisfy the avarice of his
captors, and all agree that the precious
nil Lais torn from the temples of Cuzco
alone amounted to more than ninety mil
; lions of dollars. It is known that the
twenty per cent, which the Spanish king
claimed as his share of the loot was
enough to restore financial credit toim
j poverisiio'l Spain. Millions more went
to the church; enormous sums were spent
1 iv the erection of convents, monasteries,
; palaces for the viceroys anil other public
buildings; and enough remained to enrich
1. vi ry impecunious adventurer who came
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son; "Did California Need tho McKinley
Bill?" John P. Irish and Morris M.
Estee: "Tho State Text-Rook System-
Che University and the Lower Schools."
With tho number for March, "Tho
Forum" (Now York) begins its eleventh
volume. Throughout the whole period
of the ten volumes now finished, the pub
lishers announce that there has been an
uninterrupted increase of their business.
The contents tor Marcli are: "The Nicara
gua Canal," by Senator John Sherman;
"Silver as a Circulating Medium," by
George S. Doutweil. former Secretary of
tho Treasury; "Do We. Hate England f"
by Bishop A. Cleveland Coxes "The shib
boleth of 'Tiie People,' » by W. S. Lilly;
"Freedom of Religious Discussion."' by
Prof. Max Midler: "Our Bargain With
the Inventor." by Park Benjamin; "The
Ring and tho Trust," by Rev. Dr. Will
iam Barry; "Railways under Govern
ment Control," by W. M. Aeworth;
"Russian Treatment of Jewish Subjects,"
by P. G. Hubert. .';•., a specific explana
tion of Russian Persecution; "Formative'
Influences," by Martha J. Lnmb; "A
Now Policy for the Public Schools," by
John Bascom.
The "Atlantic Monthly" for March
(Hoqghton, Milllin «fc Co., Boston,) pre
sents these papers, in addition to the
book reviews, editorials and always in
teresting "Contributor's Club:" "Feli
cia" (serial), Fanny N. 1). Murfroe;
"Richard Grant White," Francis p.
Church; "Capture of Loulsbours by the
Now England Militia." Francis Park
man; "Mv Schooling," James Freeman
Clarke; "Tho State University in Amer
ica," George E. Howard; "The House of
Maitha" (serial), Frank R.stockton; "The
Present Problem of Heredity," Henry
Fairiield Osborn; "Noto: An Unexplored
Corner of Japan 1' (serial), Percival Low
ell; "The Speaker as Premier," Albert
Bushucll Hart; "Railroad Problems of
the Immediate Future," Arthur T. Had
ley; "Pleasure: A Heresy," Agnes Rep
plier; "Mr. Aldneh'S New Volume,"
"The International Dictionary," "A New
Silva of North America."
"Harper's Weekly" for February IBth
treated of "Signs or the Times," "Reci
procity in Canada," "Tho Currency and
Public Opinion," "Sherman," "Mr.
Cleveland and Free Silver Coinage,"
"The Pan-American Railroad;" "Rutgers
College," by Reid Miller, with seven
illustrations; "The Week of Sport in
North Carolina," with nine illustrations
by W. L. Sheppard; "The Sioux Chiefs
Before tho Secretary," with full-page
illustration; "Verbena Camellia Stephen-
Otis" (a story), by Walter liesunt; "Some
Professional Amateurs of New York,"
with portraits; "General William Tecnm
seh Sherman." by General Horace Por
ter, with full-page portrait; "Admiral
David I). Porter," with portrait.
"Macmillan's Magazine" for February
(Macmillan <Sc Co., London and New
York) contains the following: "Mr.
Lecky on Pitt," by Goldwm Smith;
"Chapters from Some Unwritten Mo
moirs," by Mrs. Ritchie; "Ho Fell
Among Thieves," by I>. Christie Murray
and Henry Herman; "An Idyl of Delhi,"
by Herbert Compton; "Free Schools,"
by T. J. Macnamara: "The Reformer of
French Catholicism," by W. F.Stdekley;
"Sir Herbert Edwardes at Peshawur,"
by F. Dixon; "An American Broncho,"
by Arthur Paterson; "Tlio Last Dream
i of Julius Roy," by Ernest Rays; "Loaves
from a Note-Book."
"Harper's Young People" for February
24th hud these papers for youths, with
charming illustrations: "Men of Iron,"
by Howard Pyle, with full-page illustra
tion by t!io author; "How to Fit Una
j Gymnasium," by Roland Molineux, with
illustration; "Kitlykiii, and the Part She
Played in the War," by Thomas Nelson
Page, with illustration; "Amid Hungry
Sharks." by David Ker; "The Indian and
the Hunter," by Charles Rollin BnUnard:
'"How to make a Boomerang," by J. H.
I Houso, with illustrations; humorous
stories and pictures.
"Harper's Bazar" for February 20th,
besides the Illustrated supplement, tho
pattern sheet and the fashion articles, has
these interesting papers: Editorial, "The
Better Part." "A r*leo for the Smatterer,"
"Tho Order of the King's Daughters," by
Mary Lowe Dickinson; "Women's Ho
tels," by Robert Stein, with five illustra
tions: "Civility l>y Post;" "St. Kath
erine's by the Tower," by Walter Bcsanl,
illustrated; "Harriet," a story, by Anna
Fuller.
D. M. Ferry & Co.'s (Detroit, Mich.)
"Seed Annual" for IHiil is si handsome
and exhaustive catalogue of plants,
seeds, Vegetables, etc., in which the iirm
deals. These seed animals are Of really
high valuo to florists and growers of
plants, since they describe the old and
new varieties and enable one to ascertain
to what climate they are adapted without
experimenting.
The "West Shore" (L. Samuel, man
ager, Portland, Or.) for February 21st
iind liSih presents numbers full of attract
ive features and richly illustrated. The
"West Shorn" is now boasting of a hand
some new title page that is a great ;ul
var.ee artistically upon the old one. Tho
journal is one of the best and most useful
of its class in the country.
Tho "Youth's Companion" for March
sth is a charming number, full of inter
esting article'; ami pretty illustrations.
The "Companionll is in the very front
rank of youths' journals. Perry Mason
6i Co., Boston.
«.
A Clincher.
A yoang man home from college, wish
ing to inspire his little sister with awo
lor his learning, pointed to a star, and
said:
"Sis, do yon see that bright little lumi
nary? It's uig-jror than this whole world."
"Xo Hain't," said.Sis.
"Yes, it is," declared the young colle
gian.
"Then why don't it keep off the rain?"
was the triumphant rejoinder."— Spare
Momenta.
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177 JAMES PYLE, New Ycrlt.
ART NOTES.
The Sacramento School of Design will
hold its annual exhibition tho first week
in April at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery. |
Miss Lucy PolU Rnell, a young artist
of some talent, is one of tho few surviv
ing relatives ot President Polk, being his
graudniec*.
Meissonier was ono of the many little
men who have played big parts in the
world's history. His head was large and
his shoulders were rather broad, but his
body was short and slender. His legs
were small and insignificant, but they !
answered Abraham Lincoln's test, in be
ing long enough to reach to tho ground.
It was i;\ Cornhill, in the days of my
boyhood, that my eyes first dilated upon
a then well-known painter, who now, as
I look back, seems like one of tho old
masters. It was John R. Penniman; and
though much of bis time in iiis then old
age was spent in tho coarser branches,
yet many a decorative work attested his
ability for higher art, and his real genius.
Those were the days when open runi
sfaops woro attractive to tho eleven
o'clock topurs. Penniman knew the
places of that sort in Brattle Street, and
might bo seen, "Fast by mi inglo bleez
ing finely," in the old Bite Tavern in
Dock Square, or .sitting in the old Stage
House at the foot of Brattle and Elm
streets. None ventured to dispute his
high calling, and other circumstances
might have arrayed his name on the roll
of fume.—Samuel L. Gerry in 2**ew Emj-
Ituul Magazine.
I am forced to believe, atler a half
hour's study of the Russian artist, Nicli
olai One's, picture entitled "What is
Truth?" that the Czar was correct in his
estimate of the picture, for when ho hail
viewed it, so it is said, he ordered it boxed
and put out of sight, claiming that it
was not a tit or appropriate repre
sentation of tho head of the church.
Of all the Christs that have yet ap
peared upon canvas, this Russian type,
exterior as well as interior, is the worst.
Tho sumptuous Pilate is more likely to
gain followers than Christ. Never yet
did such a creature contain resources
sufficient to lift woman to the level of
man as Christ lias done. Munkacsy's
Christ was a clean, presentable, though a
slum type; ho was a little more than
idiotic m expression. Tho Flemish
painter, Rubens, tin; Italian artists, the
1 Hitch and Germairs have given us superb
Christs. Delacroix, a Frenchman, has
come nearer to my theory, my concep
tion of a Christ, than any other portayer.
'fender, true and delicious in color, as
well as possibly human, it reached tho
stony heart of the skeptic. Tho Bible
writers make Christ on the cross an
agony, thus uppoiding to human sym
pathy ; hero is another agony, another
draft on poor humanity, always a suf
ferer, no doubt; but there were times
when he was clean ; Gabriel Max gives
us such an instance, so have hosts of
other good painters. There is, of course,
a mighty strong contrast between Christ
and Pilate; the latter is gross with royal
fat and regal with kingly robes. His ani
mal propensities are evident; there is no
sentiment about him ; facts and food, lust
and gain, clothe him about. He would
make a lino landlord, a capital high
sheriff, and would not appear out of place
in a prize ring. Munkacsy's conception
of Pilate was better; it possessed tho
ruler's facial expression, if nothing else.
The realistic coloring and drawing is in
teresting, so is tho method ; all is effect,
effect, effect, dramatic and startling.— X.
Y. Star.
In 185:> Sir Everett Millais began his
brilliant portrait of the now-celebrated
art critic. Ruskin was known as tho au
thor of "Modern Painters;" he had pub
lished his;" Seven LampsofArcMtecture,"
tho "Stonesof Venice,*' and other things,
and had taken up the position of the
champion of tho cause of the Pre-Ra
phaejito Brotherhood. This movement
had for the last live years profoundly ex
orcised tho minds of the art world, and no
pen but Jtuskin's could have fought its
battle so tioreely, so powerfully, and so
eloquently, nor with so great a measure
of success, in acknowledgment of the
yeoman's service ho had rendered
and was still rendering, Millais
painted this portrait, and which its
possessor. Sir Henry Ac-land of Oxford,
has so courteously allowed us to repro
duce. Both painter and sitter wore in
Scotland, whither tho young author had
gone to deliver his "Lectures on Archi
tecture and Painting," and there, stand
ing by the waterfall of Gleufinlas, Millais
painted him, religiously abiding in the
execution of the picture by all the tenets
Of the Pre-Raphaelite faith. Ruskin says
somewhere that tho Englishman is con
tent to have his portrait painted anyway
but praying—tho chief delight ol tho
Venetian noble.and similarly here,though
not on his knees, but wrapped in loving
ivym nee of nature, full of that spirit of
humility and awe which even atheists
feel at times, is the young preacher rep
resented, :'.s ho stands bareheaded
by Iht) litilo cataract that rushes
and dances down tho "gray-white val
ley" to join tho waters of Loch Lomond,
With rare conscientiousness has Millais
rendered every detail in tho scene; tho
geologist cannot find a tlaw in the paint
ing of the rocks, nor can the botanist carp
at tho representation of lichen, plant, or
tlowcr. Detail was never more faithfully
and accurately set on canvas than hero in
this small frame, measuring in all but
twenty-eight inches by twenty-four,
while in respect to technique, the painter
has rarely excelled the perfect execution
of this work, which he completed in 1854,
the year of his election into the Academy.
— 'The Mar/azinc of Art.
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Notice of Ad!iihiis!ia!3i;.s Sale of Real Estate.!
■VrOKCE IS HEKKBY GIVEN THAT IV
X\ fiursuaiuo of tin.- order of the Superior
Court Of the City :i nu < 'or.illy of San Francisco.
State <>r California (Xtetmrtiuenf No.it—Pro*
bate), mode OR tho 10th tiny ot February, A. I
1). IS9I, iii the liii.ttor of the estate of PETER j
WILJLIAAJB, deceased, tlu; uniicntlgned, the I
administrator of the cxtato <>r said Peter wii- -
liams, deceased. willttcU'ut private sftletoihe
'.'.i^hpst bidder for cash in gold coin of the I
United States, on or after tho 4TII DAY OF |
! MARCH, A. ]).. iv.il. vi: tlie ri-,'ht, tHie.in-:
terest, claim, property and estate of the mud I
Peter Wiiii;iHi>, deceased,at tn(> tinieot iiis I
I deaths and all lh« i'i_li;. title, interest, claim '
property i;:-.d estate, tnal his said< Rtatehafiac- ;
quired Rlnco his (:e;»tli. i;y operation <it' law or j
otherwise, in and to all thai certain lot, ptece
orpancel of i.r..u. situate, lying andbeini; In
I .the town of Kit Grove, Sacramento County
State of California, and cte«aripcd :;s follows;
Bexinntng at a point thirty (30) rods anil
five F») tset cast of tnanorthwcsi wirnerof tho
northeast quarter oJ nwrtlon nix <; , township
six (O), north raure six (t>) east.und (!■■■ uor) li- |
: east comer »f ihoM, K. Chorch lot.umi run- '
I ningttlong Uia !!i. 3 >'t s;,ni clmrch I>>i sooth orm !
buudrctl i\iic'. rrtxty-foar ii u4) Feet; thence.east '
cm 1 hnndrodand noveaty ;17O) feet; thence '■
north one hundred and cixty-Junr-flfrj) ftjet;
' thenco west one hundred and noventy (170)
foot on the uno of said section aix(B)to the
place of beginning.
All ofli-rs !•> purchase the land and premises
herein describert must '!>■ In wi'ltiiur, and may
bo left at the law offices of Mcjwtb. i: insuiu <i;
Klsuer, So. 217 Itoiuome stroet, rooms 1210
1 18, In the City and Comity of Snii Francbco
stuu.-of Caiiforniu, or ili-livci. d to LheA ii'.iu
istxator personalty, or may bo filed In the office
I oftheCferkol the Kiux nor Court of UieClty
hi.v County of Snii I'V.mcisco, btuto of Calf.
fornla UDcpartnießt Ho. &— Vroutttc), at aJiy
time after the Brsi publication of this notice,
and bciovc tin? making of tie
Any iK-rson oiteriujj ton (fhosc ofier
shall !x- accepted by wic undcrslgni ,i. eball, on
iiotlcc of the arcei)t:ii)r.c of the offer, deposit
I with tho undervijrned ten per ivnt. of the pur
ebaMJ money, anil pay th* balance on the ap
proval and coiirlriuatloii 01 the side Lv tiie
.-:iid wntrt.
A; -t'.a-; of ti;k and conveyance to be at the
cxpeuaeof the purchaser.
Daitdat Han l'.-.u.'ji •.), I'ebruary 11th, A.
». 1891.
EMU.GUXZBUBGEIL
Adriiinistrr.tor of the estate of Peiet V«'i!)iams,
(lift 11 if iT
Ui.txsTKix & EisXEii, Attorneys for Ad-
Tniulstn*tor. )cl'3-td
dCapctß |fTrtUey £anit9.
i/N IT\i \T /NAT Al TtT
CAPAY COHI
Busy Fruit-Growers in a Pretty
Yolo Valley—Tancred and Its
Adjoining Farms.
TN THE SPRING OF LAST YEAB
-*- Robert A. and Ncal D. Barker associated
themselves with William McKay, all of Oak
land, with a view ot searching out a suitable
location in which to engage in the profitable
occupation of fruit-growius- After visiting
many localities, they decided on tho Capay
Valley, Yolo County, and the Rhodes tract at
Tancred.
Mesotiatlons were opened with the Capay
Valley Land Company, owning the tract in
question. With V. H. Mills, the General
Agent of that company, they arranged for the
porobSM of about 220 acres of foothill land.
This being more than they had thought of
taking for their own use, they spoke to a
number of friends about it, with tlie result
that the tract was divided among tho follow
ing people: B. L,. Hickok, 40 acres; W. T.
Barnett, -JO acres; N. T. Greathead, :iO acres;
Mrs. L. Greathead, 20 acres; W. McKay, 20
acres; N. D. Barker, 20 acres; It. A. Barker,
20 acres; J. P. Brownlee, 20 acres; E. H. Ilas
l'-tt, 10 acres; Joseph Barker, 10 acres; A. W.
Kelly, 10 acres, and FredericklCeily, 10 acres.
So far this had been merely a private ven
ture of the gentlemen above named,- bat
in taHrlng up the question of dividing the
land already purchased, it was found that so
many more would like to Join it than tho
area of the purchase would admit of, that it
was suggested on all hands, "Why not get
some more land and divide it up in the same
way?" Then followed the idea of a stock;
company to take hold of a larger tract and
arrange for the cultivation of the whole of it,
after subdividing it according to the re
quirements of the subscribers. A provisional
board was formed, a prospectus issued, and
finally, on tlie sth of Juue, 1890, the West
ern Co-operative Colonization and Improve
ment Company was duly registered and pro
ceeded to business, with the following officers:
President, William McKay; Yiw-President,
Id. I. Blown. Directors—H. C. EUia, Charles
Brooke and it. a. Barker; Secretary and Gen
eral Manager, Neal I). Barker; .Solicitor, c. K.
Snook; Treasurer, First National Bank of
Oakland.
The balance of the tract, 373 acres, was pur
chased. A contract was entered into for tho
purchase of a large number of jvj/l trees,
vines, etc. This early purchase, oi trees was
the means of saving between §3,000 and
S 1,000 to the company, the prices in some
CBO b having more than doubled since then.
The ideas which the prospectus set forth
have been bat slightly modified and tho
progress of the company has been uninter
rupted. Those who went into it doubtingly
have become enthusiastic, and almost all.he
members arranged to set out all theii land i:i
fruit trees, etc., the tirstyear. Consequently
in this, the Urst season, some -10,000 trees and
between 20,000 and 30,000 vines will bo
pliinted.
The satisfactory working of this scheme has
hud the eflect of attracting considerable atten
tion to the work of the Colony Company, and
a number of people are now dadrous of join-
Ing in with them. An additional 200 acres
have been added to tho sixty acres originally
purchased. -
For the company is predicted a very bright
future, as well as for the beautiful valley ia
Which their operations are conducted. How
this marvelous little garden has come to be so
long nejAleek-d is a puzzle to everyone Who
has visited it, but one thing is very sure, and
that is that this neglect will never again be
felt i:i the valley.
The fruits set out are mostly of the standard
varieties—peaches, apricots, Bartiett pears,
prunes, flgs, misin grapes, etc., while along
both sides of tlie avenues, throughout tho
tract, walnuts will throw their gmceral shade.
A considerable number of citrus treea are also
being set out; <iuite a sufficient number to
demonstrate that these fruits can be auoceas
iully grown in the valley, about which the
colonists appear to have no doubt, provided
proper care is given to the young trees. Neal
D. Barker, General Manager of the company,
resides on the tract, and to his care is to be as
cribed much of the success of the venture.
Mention should be made of the town-site,
about which there is a pleasant Innovation
Which might with profit be foilowed by nioro
ambitious places. A small purl: of some three
acres has been laid out right in the confer of
the town. This park it la proposed to beautify
by planting in it from trine to time as many
of the beauties and curiosities of tree and.
shn:!> liie as may be obtained by diligent
search and a wise expenditure of money. It
is not expected that Tancred will ever be a
large and busy city, but it is thought that it
win be made a very pleasant little place to
dwi-4 In,
A petition has been circulated recently and
very largely signed, asking the eoottty to ao
cepl Island avenue, on the colony tract, us a
county roait, mul to build a. bridge across
Oiehe Creek at. this point, in order to give tlio
settlers on tlje cast side of the Creek access to
Thncred Station. The Toncrcd colnnistfi are
quite willing to give the norasnry rightof
w;iy, a:ni are very desirous ot bftTlng a bri<i^e
there, as the colony lands e.\:cnti alon^ both
sides of the stream. It is thought that, it
wou'd be it very Witt expenditure of pobUc
money to grant them this very necessary im
provement, as Hie operations of such com
panies are of widespread benefit to the whole
county and sfute. The attractions and com
forts Of thrt cities are- ->yell known, but to those
who are willing to settle on the land nnu show
ihai the country also afibrds attractions and
comforts and ways of making money pleas
antly, ewry Inducement .should bo held fiirtb.
The following la a list ot the principal uaem
bers orthe Taiscrcd Colony, with liui nmnoer
of acres owi.ed by each, and a fact Worthy of
mention is that in each contract or deed is
sued by the Colony Company tli!-re is a pro
vision i hut 1.0 intoxicating UquorshoU ever
be Kiauofiiciurod or sold on the land. Tho
apparent .success of tho enterprise shows
thai Ox ideas and plans of the e-ii
ony. as set loitii in the prospectus somo
time ago, are not impracticable: (:. t.
Huil, Berkeley, 5 acres; W. V. llamnioti, Oak
ktbd. 11 acres; c. s. Kr.shon. Son Franeiaco,
1 1 acres; .los. Barker, 10 .u.rcs; A. W. Kelly
Klncardtne, Ont^ T> acras; N. T. GreaUtead 5
acros R. <*. Oreothead, Oakland, 10acres; R.
A. Barker, Sen Frenclsoa, 10 acres; N. D. J^.ir
kcr, Timcred, 10 acres; Dr. K. Favor Ban
Prauciseo, 27 asres; J. p. Browjnleo Kitur.r
-:;■!..;;;..■:■,•.■; W.T.BarncU, Berkeley,o
acres; M. '.-. Brown, 10 acres; Cniis. Brook, Sr.,
Oakland, lo acres; Vf.C. Boutellc, ii.rkeiry,
20 acn >; Mr*. T. A. Cielin, Oakland, 5 acres;
C. 11. Peach, Taucred, 5 acres; 11. C. Ellis, Oak-
Und, n^ iicns: j. Vanstone,Whuxtpog, 10
acres; K. a. Vanxtone, T&ncred, 5 acres; B.
W&dsworth, SacxanicatO, 3 aeret;; M. A.
Toonaas, Oaklaad, 6 aeres;lames Orobaia,
Ban Francisco, 11 acres: A. Stark, IS acres;
J. HUri:. \ o acrrs; Mrs. 11. Yrooma'i, 5 acres;
C. ]•;. s.-iook. 10 acres; V. T. Qreatheod, X:i
acres; Vm. McKay. 6 acres; Mrs.Win. MeKav,
Oakland, 5 acres; Mre. E. C. Wooley, lirook
lyn.N. V., LOacres; Mrs. li. Uecklcy,''laklaml,
5 acres; T. A. Marriott, 6 acres; J. i. 1. Harrison,
iaucvcU, 3 acres. Tho Uind re&ervcc' by the
Colony Company, Including towaslto, consists
or Gl acres. fclod&wtf