DOMINIQUE BORDAGARAY: A successful farmer and business man among the old settlers on the West Side in Fresno County, is Dominique Bordagaray, born in St. Jean Pied de Port, Basses Pyrenees, France, January 15,
1876.
His father, Jean Bordagaray served as an official in the customs house service of the French government for twenty-five years up to the time of his death, at forty-five years of age. He was a popular and prominent official
of influence.
Dominique is the youngest of eight children born to his parents, all of whom are living, five of them residing in Buenos Ayres, South America, while he is the only one living under the Stars and Stripes. He passed his childhood in his old home and after completing the local schools entered college.
His father naturally wanted him to enter the customs service, but Dominique had heard and read of the wonderful resources and opportunities in California, and
so resolved to seek his fortune in the land of gold and sunshine. Through the assistance of his grandmother (whom he repaid from his first earnings) he was
able to make the long journey to the Pacific Coast, arriving in Los Angeles in December, 1893.
One month later he made his way to Bakersfield and there he entered the employ of a sheepman. In 1895 he came to Fresno County, which has since been the scene of his operations. He continued working for different sheep-growers, until 1898 when he went into the mountains in Millwood Basin for nearly two years. Always desirous for advancement, he studied English, not a difficult matter with his knowledge of Latin, and soon he read and spoke Englishquite well.
From 1900 to 1902 he conducted the Pyrenees Hotel at Kern and O Streets, Fresno. Having saved about $350. he resolved to engage in stock-raising and purchased a flock of sheep which he ranged on the plains on the West Side and also buying and selling sheep, at times having 4,000 to 5,000 head.
He established a sheep-shearing camp at Turk, nine miles east of Coalinga, where for many years he did a large business. Here he was the first man in the district to use the modern sheep-clippers. He sheared on contract and had as high as seventeen clippers at work. He also built large dipping vats and over 110,000 sheep have been sheared and dipped at his camp in a spring season. He built a store, hotel and livery stable and did a very successful business.
During these years he also made a specialty of raising fine rams which he sold to sheepmen, some years selling over 1,000 rams.
He homesteaded 140 acres eleven miles east of Coalinga, which he improved, cleared of mesquite and sagebrush, sunk a well and installed a pumping-plant, and the rich soil produces all kinds of vegetables and fruit, yielding
abundantly. He has an orchard of peaches, apricots, quince and figs, as well as a vineyard, and has also raised cotton on the place. He raises grain on land he leases from the railroad company.
Soon after Coalinga began building he bought six lots on C Street near Fifth, where in 1904 he built a row of store buildings. In one of these he ran a French laundry. Some years later they were destroyed by fire and he built the Airdome Theatre which he rents and is now run as the Liberty Airdome.
In 1913, a dry year, he shipped his sheep to Aspen, Colo., where he ranged them on the government reserve and when ready for market shipped them in lots to Denver, where they were sold. Having disposed of them he quit the sheep
business and since then engages in general farming on his ranch.
With R. W. Cain as a partner, under the firm name of Bordagaray & Cain, he is engaged in business on Fifth Street, Coalinga, dealing in confectionery, ice cream, soda water, cigars and tobacco, as well as running a large billiard parlor and carrying a large stock of goods in their business.
Mr. Bordagaray was married in Hanford to Miss Louisa Devaurs, a native daughter born in Merced, Cal, and they have six children: Albert D., Grace S., Rose E., Stanley, Isabel I., and John Henry.
Mr. Bordagaray became an American citizen in 1912, and is a patriotic and enterprising citizen. Fraternally he is a member of the Eagles.
Dominique was a Basque immigrant and was the father of pro baseball player Stanley Bordagaray.
1876.
His father, Jean Bordagaray served as an official in the customs house service of the French government for twenty-five years up to the time of his death, at forty-five years of age. He was a popular and prominent official
of influence.
Dominique is the youngest of eight children born to his parents, all of whom are living, five of them residing in Buenos Ayres, South America, while he is the only one living under the Stars and Stripes. He passed his childhood in his old home and after completing the local schools entered college.
His father naturally wanted him to enter the customs service, but Dominique had heard and read of the wonderful resources and opportunities in California, and
so resolved to seek his fortune in the land of gold and sunshine. Through the assistance of his grandmother (whom he repaid from his first earnings) he was
able to make the long journey to the Pacific Coast, arriving in Los Angeles in December, 1893.
One month later he made his way to Bakersfield and there he entered the employ of a sheepman. In 1895 he came to Fresno County, which has since been the scene of his operations. He continued working for different sheep-growers, until 1898 when he went into the mountains in Millwood Basin for nearly two years. Always desirous for advancement, he studied English, not a difficult matter with his knowledge of Latin, and soon he read and spoke Englishquite well.
From 1900 to 1902 he conducted the Pyrenees Hotel at Kern and O Streets, Fresno. Having saved about $350. he resolved to engage in stock-raising and purchased a flock of sheep which he ranged on the plains on the West Side and also buying and selling sheep, at times having 4,000 to 5,000 head.
He established a sheep-shearing camp at Turk, nine miles east of Coalinga, where for many years he did a large business. Here he was the first man in the district to use the modern sheep-clippers. He sheared on contract and had as high as seventeen clippers at work. He also built large dipping vats and over 110,000 sheep have been sheared and dipped at his camp in a spring season. He built a store, hotel and livery stable and did a very successful business.
During these years he also made a specialty of raising fine rams which he sold to sheepmen, some years selling over 1,000 rams.
He homesteaded 140 acres eleven miles east of Coalinga, which he improved, cleared of mesquite and sagebrush, sunk a well and installed a pumping-plant, and the rich soil produces all kinds of vegetables and fruit, yielding
abundantly. He has an orchard of peaches, apricots, quince and figs, as well as a vineyard, and has also raised cotton on the place. He raises grain on land he leases from the railroad company.
Soon after Coalinga began building he bought six lots on C Street near Fifth, where in 1904 he built a row of store buildings. In one of these he ran a French laundry. Some years later they were destroyed by fire and he built the Airdome Theatre which he rents and is now run as the Liberty Airdome.
In 1913, a dry year, he shipped his sheep to Aspen, Colo., where he ranged them on the government reserve and when ready for market shipped them in lots to Denver, where they were sold. Having disposed of them he quit the sheep
business and since then engages in general farming on his ranch.
With R. W. Cain as a partner, under the firm name of Bordagaray & Cain, he is engaged in business on Fifth Street, Coalinga, dealing in confectionery, ice cream, soda water, cigars and tobacco, as well as running a large billiard parlor and carrying a large stock of goods in their business.
Mr. Bordagaray was married in Hanford to Miss Louisa Devaurs, a native daughter born in Merced, Cal, and they have six children: Albert D., Grace S., Rose E., Stanley, Isabel I., and John Henry.
Mr. Bordagaray became an American citizen in 1912, and is a patriotic and enterprising citizen. Fraternally he is a member of the Eagles.
Dominique was a Basque immigrant and was the father of pro baseball player Stanley Bordagaray.
DOMINIQUE BORDAGARAY: A successful farmer and business man among the old settlers on the West Side in Fresno County, is Dominique Bordagaray, born in St. Jean Pied de Port, Basses Pyrenees, France, January 15,
1876.
His father, Jean Bordagaray served as an official in the customs house service of the French government for twenty-five years up to the time of his death, at forty-five years of age. He was a popular and prominent official
of influence.
Dominique is the youngest of eight children born to his parents, all of whom are living, five of them residing in Buenos Ayres, South America, while he is the only one living under the Stars and Stripes. He passed his childhood in his old home and after completing the local schools entered college.
His father naturally wanted him to enter the customs service, but Dominique had heard and read of the wonderful resources and opportunities in California, and
so resolved to seek his fortune in the land of gold and sunshine. Through the assistance of his grandmother (whom he repaid from his first earnings) he was
able to make the long journey to the Pacific Coast, arriving in Los Angeles in December, 1893.
One month later he made his way to Bakersfield and there he entered the employ of a sheepman. In 1895 he came to Fresno County, which has since been the scene of his operations. He continued working for different sheep-growers, until 1898 when he went into the mountains in Millwood Basin for nearly two years. Always desirous for advancement, he studied English, not a difficult matter with his knowledge of Latin, and soon he read and spoke Englishquite well.
From 1900 to 1902 he conducted the Pyrenees Hotel at Kern and O Streets, Fresno. Having saved about $350. he resolved to engage in stock-raising and purchased a flock of sheep which he ranged on the plains on the West Side and also buying and selling sheep, at times having 4,000 to 5,000 head.
He established a sheep-shearing camp at Turk, nine miles east of Coalinga, where for many years he did a large business. Here he was the first man in the district to use the modern sheep-clippers. He sheared on contract and had as high as seventeen clippers at work. He also built large dipping vats and over 110,000 sheep have been sheared and dipped at his camp in a spring season. He built a store, hotel and livery stable and did a very successful business.
During these years he also made a specialty of raising fine rams which he sold to sheepmen, some years selling over 1,000 rams.
He homesteaded 140 acres eleven miles east of Coalinga, which he improved, cleared of mesquite and sagebrush, sunk a well and installed a pumping-plant, and the rich soil produces all kinds of vegetables and fruit, yielding
abundantly. He has an orchard of peaches, apricots, quince and figs, as well as a vineyard, and has also raised cotton on the place. He raises grain on land he leases from the railroad company.
Soon after Coalinga began building he bought six lots on C Street near Fifth, where in 1904 he built a row of store buildings. In one of these he ran a French laundry. Some years later they were destroyed by fire and he built the Airdome Theatre which he rents and is now run as the Liberty Airdome.
In 1913, a dry year, he shipped his sheep to Aspen, Colo., where he ranged them on the government reserve and when ready for market shipped them in lots to Denver, where they were sold. Having disposed of them he quit the sheep
business and since then engages in general farming on his ranch.
With R. W. Cain as a partner, under the firm name of Bordagaray & Cain, he is engaged in business on Fifth Street, Coalinga, dealing in confectionery, ice cream, soda water, cigars and tobacco, as well as running a large billiard parlor and carrying a large stock of goods in their business.
Mr. Bordagaray was married in Hanford to Miss Louisa Devaurs, a native daughter born in Merced, Cal, and they have six children: Albert D., Grace S., Rose E., Stanley, Isabel I., and John Henry.
Mr. Bordagaray became an American citizen in 1912, and is a patriotic and enterprising citizen. Fraternally he is a member of the Eagles.
Dominique was a Basque immigrant and was the father of pro baseball player Stanley Bordagaray.
1876.
His father, Jean Bordagaray served as an official in the customs house service of the French government for twenty-five years up to the time of his death, at forty-five years of age. He was a popular and prominent official
of influence.
Dominique is the youngest of eight children born to his parents, all of whom are living, five of them residing in Buenos Ayres, South America, while he is the only one living under the Stars and Stripes. He passed his childhood in his old home and after completing the local schools entered college.
His father naturally wanted him to enter the customs service, but Dominique had heard and read of the wonderful resources and opportunities in California, and
so resolved to seek his fortune in the land of gold and sunshine. Through the assistance of his grandmother (whom he repaid from his first earnings) he was
able to make the long journey to the Pacific Coast, arriving in Los Angeles in December, 1893.
One month later he made his way to Bakersfield and there he entered the employ of a sheepman. In 1895 he came to Fresno County, which has since been the scene of his operations. He continued working for different sheep-growers, until 1898 when he went into the mountains in Millwood Basin for nearly two years. Always desirous for advancement, he studied English, not a difficult matter with his knowledge of Latin, and soon he read and spoke Englishquite well.
From 1900 to 1902 he conducted the Pyrenees Hotel at Kern and O Streets, Fresno. Having saved about $350. he resolved to engage in stock-raising and purchased a flock of sheep which he ranged on the plains on the West Side and also buying and selling sheep, at times having 4,000 to 5,000 head.
He established a sheep-shearing camp at Turk, nine miles east of Coalinga, where for many years he did a large business. Here he was the first man in the district to use the modern sheep-clippers. He sheared on contract and had as high as seventeen clippers at work. He also built large dipping vats and over 110,000 sheep have been sheared and dipped at his camp in a spring season. He built a store, hotel and livery stable and did a very successful business.
During these years he also made a specialty of raising fine rams which he sold to sheepmen, some years selling over 1,000 rams.
He homesteaded 140 acres eleven miles east of Coalinga, which he improved, cleared of mesquite and sagebrush, sunk a well and installed a pumping-plant, and the rich soil produces all kinds of vegetables and fruit, yielding
abundantly. He has an orchard of peaches, apricots, quince and figs, as well as a vineyard, and has also raised cotton on the place. He raises grain on land he leases from the railroad company.
Soon after Coalinga began building he bought six lots on C Street near Fifth, where in 1904 he built a row of store buildings. In one of these he ran a French laundry. Some years later they were destroyed by fire and he built the Airdome Theatre which he rents and is now run as the Liberty Airdome.
In 1913, a dry year, he shipped his sheep to Aspen, Colo., where he ranged them on the government reserve and when ready for market shipped them in lots to Denver, where they were sold. Having disposed of them he quit the sheep
business and since then engages in general farming on his ranch.
With R. W. Cain as a partner, under the firm name of Bordagaray & Cain, he is engaged in business on Fifth Street, Coalinga, dealing in confectionery, ice cream, soda water, cigars and tobacco, as well as running a large billiard parlor and carrying a large stock of goods in their business.
Mr. Bordagaray was married in Hanford to Miss Louisa Devaurs, a native daughter born in Merced, Cal, and they have six children: Albert D., Grace S., Rose E., Stanley, Isabel I., and John Henry.
Mr. Bordagaray became an American citizen in 1912, and is a patriotic and enterprising citizen. Fraternally he is a member of the Eagles.
Dominique was a Basque immigrant and was the father of pro baseball player Stanley Bordagaray.
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