Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: California Delta Farms Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1915-1934
Collection number: Ms5
Creator:
Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
San Joaquin County Museum.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research by appointment only.
Publication Rights
The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible
for satisfying any claimants of literary property.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], California Delta Farms Collection, Ms5, San Joaquin County
Historical Society and Museum.
Access Points
personal name
Klein, Millard A.
Phillips, Lee Allen
corporate name
California Delta Farms
subject
Agriculture -Delta Region (Calif.)
Scrapbooks -Delta Region (Calif.)
Agriculture -California -San Joaquin County
Agriculture -California -Contra Costa County
San Joaquin County (Calif.) -History
Biography
In 1902 Los Angeles capitalist and insurance executive, Lee A. Phillips, acquired the
Jones Tract in the Delta of the San Joaquin River. Out of this initial purchase grew the
forty-two thousand acre holdings of California Delta Farms, embracing at one time: King
Island, Bacon Island, Bouldin Island, the Rindge Tract and islands in Contra Costa County
to the west. Phillips devoted many years to the project of reclaiming these acres and
turning them into the most productive farm lands in California. To accomplish this goal,
Phillips created California Delta Farms (1906) and served as its President for more than
twenty years. The corporation sold capital stock in the amount of $8.5 million and $3.5
million in bonds.
Scope and Content
The California Delta Farms Collection consists of business correspondence (1910-1917);
annual statements; balance sheets; dividend notices (1915-1917); a brief history of the
California Delta Farms Corporation (1920); and a scrapbook on the Corporation kept by
consulting engineer, Millard A. Klein (1924-1934).