Yolo County Biographies

Earl T. Anderson

Transcribed by Bea Barton

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One mile south of Woodland, on the Davis road, lies Victoria orchard, a 
beautiful fruit farm which throughout the county is renowned for its high state 
of cultivation and the excellent quality of its products.  The owner of this 
property, (which was known as the old Briggs ranch at the time he acquired it) 
is Earl T. Anderson, one of Yolo county�s youngest horticulturists.  He was born 
November 10, 1888 in Lewis county, Mo.  His father, William T. Anderson, is 
engaged in breeding thoroughbred horses on his stock farm near Lexington, Ky.  
Earl T. Anderson was educated at LaGrange, Mo., and also attended the Gem City 
Business College at Quincy, Ill.  In Lewis county he assisted his uncle in the 
management of his stock farm consisting of three hundred and sixty acres, upon 
which fine horses and mules were raised, the herd numbering at one time one 
hundred head.  Mr. Anderson had long felt a desire to locate in the golden west, 
concerning the beauty and prosperity of which he had heard so many glowing 
tales; therefore, in 1909, he came to California and after carefully surveying 
the various opportunities presented to him chose his present ranch in Yolo 
county, which had the advantages of being in a greatly improved condition and in 
being in close proximity to the rapidly growing town of Woodland, thus easily 
answering the question of shipping.  The high standard of excellence enjoy by 
this property at the time of Mr. Anderson�s purchase has not only been 
maintained, but in the short period it has been in the hands of its new owner 
has shown various phases of improvement which are the result only of his 
thoroughly modern and progressive methods.  Victoria orchard, located at Mullen 
station on the South Pacific, comprises eighty acres, divided as follows:  
Apricots, twenty acres; grapes (Muscat and Thompson seedless raisin varieties), 
sixty acres; fifty fig trees (the drying species); thirty-five fine English 
walnut trees; one hundred and fifty almond trees; five hundred olive trees 
(Mission and Navodella, pickle and oil varieties); seventy-five silver prune 
trees; seventy-five peach trees; also a number of orange, lemon, nectarine, 
chestnut, persimmon, quince and cherry trees.  Besides his fruit, Mr. Anderson 
raises a fine quality of alfalfa on a small portion of his land.  
 
Mr. Anderson has for some time been keenly interested in thoroughbred horses, 
and with his father is interested in breeding them in Kentucky, where have been 
raised many of the notably swift runners which have taken part in California 
meets.  Though not a native of this state, Mr. Anderson is intensely interest in 
everything pertaining to the welfare of Yolo county, and his friends are aware 
that he may be counted upon to respond to the best of his ability to the various 
calls for the betterment of the community.
  
Source:  �History of Yolo County, California� by Tom Gregory.  Published by the 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1913, pages 482 � 485.