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Register of the California Delta Farms Collection, 1915-1934
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  • 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.
    Lodi, CA 95241
    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).