History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . w to establish their busi-ness, and in 1890 he located in Kutner Colony on some raw land. Mrs. An-derson also went to the Hawthorne School, as well as to the school in Tem-perance Colony. Mr. Rice died February 16, 1915, and Mrs. Rice passedaway in June, 1917. They were very generous and hospitable and assistedmany of the early settlers to get a start. For a season Mr. Anderson was in the employ
History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . w to establish their busi-ness, and in 1890 he located in Kutner Colony on some raw land. Mrs. An-derson also went to the Hawthorne School, as well as to the school in Tem-perance Colony. Mr. Rice died February 16, 1915, and Mrs. Rice passedaway in June, 1917. They were very generous and hospitable and assistedmany of the early settlers to get a start. For a season Mr. Anderson was in the employ of the Pine Ridge LumberCompany and then he went into the mountains with the Sanger LumberCompany. In the fall of 1898 he bought twenty acres adjoining the propertyof Air. Rice, and began to engage in viticulture. He had a horse, and he builtupon the ranch and otherwise much improved it; and he later bought tenacres, near the Kutner school-house, on which he resided for eight original twenty acres, now in full-bearing muscats, Mr. Anderson stillowns. In the meantime this enterprising pioneer invested in a tract of sixtyacres, in 1909, when the nearest vineyard was a mile away. He had. <^:::^^^?-2<^^t£/ HISTORY OF FRESNO COUNTY 1193 to poison off the horde of squirrels and jack rabbits before he could set hisvines but he succeeded in making it a fine place. He built a residence, withthe usual barns and outbuildings, and then bought, with Mr. Rice, a tract offorty acres near by, thirty-five of which he set out as a vineyard with muscatand shipping grapes, and several acres of alfalfa. He worked out, saved andinvested his surplus in his ranch, and has become well posted in his ranch, located five and a half miles southeast of Clovis, became one ofthe landscape, as well as agricultural, attractions in this section. However,in June, 1918, he sold this place and moved back to the old Rice home, whichhe and Mrs. Anderson still own, in connection with their
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