Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-13

anu we ufe bldu 10 KNOW tuht tic hcCeS-
sity is now to be supplied. Mr.. Mintzer
and about twenty more Of the solid men
of Cclton are at the bottom Of this bust
ness, as well as that Of the Marble Lime
Company. and we trust will make the
enterprise success.
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False and Pernicious Statements.
A sensational article appeared in the
Times yesterday concerning the wine
trade, predicting dire disaster, and
stating that Lachmaa & Jacoby had
100000 gallons of wine on hand,
where it did not state; st. Louis wine
cellars were filed to overfowing; Har-
aszthy & Co. had 500. 900 gallons Of wine
in New York, for which there was no
sale; that Kohler 4 Frohling had a
large lot OF Zinfandel wine in New York
which they could not sell except at San
Francisco prices, with the package
thrown in.
Nobody familiar with the commerce OF
California would for moment believe
such statements. The article was evil
IDENTIFY clipping from some San Fran
cisco newspaper. 1t reads as follows:
"The wine trade at present is very
dull and manufacturers are discouraged
at the prospect. Lachman & Jacoby
have nearly 5000, 600 gallons on hand.
with dull market. The St. Louis wine
cellars are filed to overfowing. Arpad
Haraszthy Co. have 500, 600 gallons of
wine in New York, for which there is
no sale Messrs. Kohler & Frohling,
Of this city, have large quantity of
Zinfandel wines in New York and they
are forced to sell it as low as in San
Francisco, and with no charge for
barrels. Altogether the wine business
is fat and the outlook is very discour-
aging for the wine manufacturer and
the wine shipper. With the coming
product of the vineyards the prospect is
that wine will be very low.
In regard to the first sentence we
have made inquiries Of the wholesale
wine dealers Of this city, and they all
pronounce it false. Their trade is good,
and better than usual at this season of
the year, and the stock Of ripe wine is
very small. That brands the Times
statement as utterly false, and conceiv-
ed in ignorance or in malice.
/ As to the second assertion about
Lachman & ,Tacoby having nearly 5000, :
600 gallons Of wine on hand, with dull
market, the readers of the HERALD are
informed that Lachman 4 Jacoby are in
San Francisco, and not in Los Angeles,
as might be inferred by the statement in
our contemporary. And in addition we
learn from one OF our Oldest and most re-
liable citizens, just returned from
San Francisco, where he visited the es-
tablishment Of Lachman L Jacoby
and found that their stock ives
not excessive while their trade
was brisk. He furthermore in
forms US that from an acquaintance
with the wine merchants and manufac-
turers Of California for the past twenty
Eve years. and knowledge of the stocks
which they carry, that there are not
1000, 900 gallons Of ripe wine in the
entire State, and that such an amount is
not equal to the home consumption of
wine in this State alone.
st. Louis dealers are still buying wine
in California, which shows their cellars
are not sfilled to overfowing.'
In regard to the stock of Arpad, Ha-
raszthy & Co., the makers Of Eclipse
Champagne, we understand that they
never sell this wine till it is three years
old, and must necessarily have large
stock on hand, but that the demand is
so brisk that they have orders ahead
which take it away as soon as it arrives
at that age.
Messrs. Kohler & Frohling of San
Francisco and Los Angeles, are large
makers of Zinfandel wine, which is su-
perior to imported wine of that class
and comes in competition with French
clarets both in New York and San Fran
cisco; but in the latter city the French
wines cost strong prices and it is an
easy matter to compete with them and
make good profit, which they steadily
do; while in New York where the
poorest French wine is shipped by
vessel-loads at time at low rates. and
forced off at what they will bring,
making a slaughter-house for bad vino
of that market where their wretched
drugged wines highly charged with al
cohol depress the market for Califor-
/ MIA clarets and often lead to a sale at
low prices in an effort to drive out the
imported article. But still Kohler &
t'rohling prosper and the reputation of
their wines is rising all the time.
| At present there is large amount
of French wine being rushed into Amer
lean markets to avoid paying the in
creased tariff which takes effect on the
lst of July next, but our wine men
are all getting rich Notwithstanding
this competition, and are astonished to
hear that they are in bad way as
stated by the Times. Their wines and
credit are steadily improving, and their
success has made land valuable, labor in
demand, and grape-growers prosperous
from one end Of the State to the other.
j The publication of the Times article
created general indignation in the city
yesterday, as its effect was to iniure the
credit of our wine-makers, depress the
price Of real estate, frighten timid grape
growers to sell their lands and abandon
profitable industry for something less
profitable and pleasant. The article is
false and pernicious, and does no good
to anv one INIT will re-nct upon the