#24 Flour Mills & Dixon Silos
#24 Silo and Lehe/McCune/Kilkenny Home – First Street and D Street (358)
Dixon Alfalfa Meal Company
California Mealfalfa Company – W J Weyand manager 1918 – mill also in Orland, CA
Dixon Mill
Dixon Alfalfa Land Company
Alfalfa Mill
Grain Storage Silos
Weyand Mealfalfa Mill
Owners – Manuel Joaquin “Joe” (1874-1943) & Marian Theodora Machado (1880-1979)
Mary” Mae” Alice Azevedo (1912-2008) moved to Dixon at the age of six in 1918. Mae brought her pet cat when the family moved to Dixon. Her father began a dairy business. He was from the Azores of Portuguese decent. A family member sponsored him to come to the United States. Mae is a graduate of Dixon High School class which was a class of three individuals in 1931. Mae was the first queen of the Holy Ghost celebration and parade.
Her stories relate to the economic development of agriculture and ranching in early California communities. Her father immigrated from the Azores by working on a steam ship when he was 14 years of age. He bought land in Dixon for grade A dairy farming in 1918 that still belongs to the Azevedo family.
Owners – Joseph Louis Azevedo (1912-1998) married in 1935 to Mary “Mae” Alice Azevedo
Son Joseph “Butch” & Vickie Azevedo inherited and continue to operate the business.
Improved concrete elevator 1950
Before the McCune house on First Street was built, in 1910, part of the McCune ranch was sold to the Dixon Alfalfa Company. The entire land mass was nine hundred and sixty acres west of Batavia. The division of the large land holdings in Dixon was divided into small farms, this was done to make what is going to make a town of Dixon and nothing else, so that everyone working in that direction should be welcomed and encouraged as far as possible. We are more than pleased to see the McCune home ranch, which was one of the largest in this section, is rapidly disintegrating and in a far way of becoming the home of many families. It spells prosperity for Northern Solano. According to the author of the Dixon Tribune article dated December 31, 1910. Honorable Henry Evalt McCune 1825-1912
SITE #24 - Flouring Mills, Mealfalfa and the Silos
WH.....THESE ARE NOT IN ORDER YET AND I HAVE PDFS SAVED WITH INFORMATION AS WELL
VWC_2_20_1875_p4_Wheat_DB_Huff_Kohler_Gruenig_Dixon_bakery_open_William_Dickson_mills_for_King_Schi
1875 mar 8 from SNNC…
snnc_7_19_1875_The_flour_mills_silos_Tyler_Brothers
3/6/1875 VWC pg 1…
The machinery for Tyler’s mill is expected in a few weeks. (Frank Alfonso Tyler and Elias Mortimer Tyler are brothers that built the mill. FA was elected one of the 1st Town Trustees when it incorporated in 1878, he was also a Mason and their Dad was a Director of the Marble Rock Placer Mining Co with Milton Carpenter, Schirmer and others see article in our tree- WH)
1875/05/01
-"Dixon Flouring Mills" are the words now blazoned upon the front of the new flouring mill structure.
5/22/1876 SNNC
September 9, 1876--- Mr. Beane has removed his box factory to the Dixon Flouring mills building.
1/1/1878
Dixon Mills - The Dixon' Flouring Mills have undergone Extensive Repairs and Improvements Tyler & Newby - prop.
2/15/1878 SNNC page 3
9/1/1879
Peter Timm and WS Hinman are now the owners of the Dixon cannon, the former having bought a half interest for $5.25 at the late auction. Originally the piece cost $150.
1883/01/13
Union Flouring Mills, Dixon, California J.B. Brothers and Company, Proprietors
JB Brothers Union Flouring Mill Ad Dec 22 1883 Tribune
Flour Mills PH Engine House Einstein Fruit lands DECEMBER 22 1883 page 2
The Solano-Napa News Chronicle
Fri, Aug 29, 1884 ·Page 3
Jan 5 1894 Jos. Lukes of the Dixon flour mill write up about lisc protest page 3…tribune?
1887/05/21---Luke Lukes has leased the Dixon Flour Mills and is engaged in making extensive improvements. The stones will be taken out and it will be converted into a roller mill. Mr. Lukes is a first-class miller and his work has always been of the most satisfactory character.
1902/01/01 Dixon Tribune
DIXON ROLLER MILLS. Repairs Being Made Which Will Start the Wheels of the Industry. After lying idle for many months the wheels of Dixon Roller Mills will soon be turning again and the hum and stir of an industry that ought to pay in this community will be heard. A.P. and T.G. d'Artenay and Wm. Weyand have undertaken the operation of the neglected industry and are installing a new boiler and repairing the
machinery preparatory to starting up. The plant is to use oil for fuel and will be confined to crushing barley until arrangements can be made to make flour and other mill-stuffs
2005.4.60 Dixon Archive photo and write up…
Dixon Gyrator Mills. Two story structure located north of railroad tracks in downtown area between Main Street and Fitch Street now known as North Jackson.
HIstory of the grain elevator now owned in 2012 by the Azevedo Family. It was built in 1902 by BIll Weyand. Article written by Bil Paul for the digital newspaper "Patch" in 2011. Dixon's grain elevator.
(WH-this is NOT ACCURATE)
Dixon Milling Gyrator Weyand is manager JUNE 12 1903 page 8
Ad for Dixon Gyrator Mill AUGUST 14 1903 page 4
Dixon Milling Co seed cleaning SEPTEMBER 15 1905 page 4
Weyand mgr paints Dixon Gyrator Mills JULY 25 1908 page 5
SolanoAnIllustratedHistoryKeegan1989_0055 (actual book Solano, The Cross roads County) has picture and write up on the Dixon Gyrator Mill
1914/04/19
Messrs. Stephens and Hillhouse now own all the stock of the Dixon Alfalfa Land Co., having purchased
from Messrs. Grady, Weyand, Carpenter, Steinmiller, Kirby, and others, all the outstanding stock.
Dixon Milling Co succeeded by CA Mealfalfa Co FEBRUARY 22 1918 page 4
CA Mealalfalfa Russell and Weyand copartners MARCH 22 1918 page 6 dissolution of Dixon milling co MARCH 15 1918 page 8Write your text here...
04/01/1919 LAST OLD SHACK DOWN. The old Munyon shack on the other side of the band hall has finally been torn down by W.J.Weyand and taken to his ranch near Orland. It was the last old relic of stirring times in that part of the town. It was the last of the buildings that stood before the fire. Already the improvement to that part of First Street is noticeable, for the shack was an eyesore.
6/1/1926
CALIFORNIA MEALFALFA COMPANY - MILLS AT Dixon
1933/04/01 Dixon Tribune
---Ralph Weyand is now owner of the Chas. Rose house on the north side of the railway tracks. He was able to acquire the lot, house, garage and work shop for $2500.
Dixon Tribune
History of Flour Mills Weyand Date NOVEMBER 06 1936 page 1(this is pretty accurate-WH)
03/01/1938
MILL WILL INSTALL HAY DEHYDRATOR. After quite a few years investigation on the part of W.J. and
Ralph Weyand the Callifornia Mealfalfa Co. has about concluded to install a fair size dehydrator
adaptable to drying alfalfa, hay and corn and other farm products of this section requiring reduction of
moisture for safe storage.
2/27/1942
SHORTAGE OF BAGS A REAL PROBLEM. There will not be enough sacks available to handle the 1942
grain crop in California. There will not be enough steel grain bins available to store all California grain for
which sacks cannot be secured. There is not enough dry lumber available to build bins in which to store
all California grain for which sacks or steel grain bins cannot be secured. There are not enough portable
grain elevators for everyone who wishes to buy one.
History of Flour Mills and silo not built yet Weyand Date NOVEMBER 06 1936 page 1
02/01/1944 MAYOR WEYAND WILL RETIRE FROM COUNCIL. "Bill" has been on the Council for 34 years and says it is a good thing for younger ones to take hold of the job of city administration.
March 10, 1944 page 1 (can’t read the article ) W.J. WEYAND COMPLETES BIG BULK GRAIN HANDLING ELEVATOR AT DIXON PLANT
November 2 1945 pg 1
Weyands sell Mealfalfa and grain elevator
WH-this is pretty accurate...
History of Flour Mills Weyand Date NOVEMBER 06 1936 page 1
20056104 Cargill Grain Silos Dixon Archive photo by Harold Axelson
Lianne Wilson
Broker
Esther Bryce
Founder / Interior designer
