Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-21

CALIFORNIA HOPS.
A Law Proposed in the Interest of Hop

Growers
The local hop market is very quiet; in
fact there is nothing doing in that line at
all The crop is mostly in the hands of
producers. The prices at which some small
lots have recently been disposed of scarcely
covers the cost of production. The market
throughout the East is equally dull. The
fluctuations in that market for the past six
weeks have been so slight that it is scarcely
worth noting. The following dispatch was
received in this city yesterday
PHILADELPHIA. February 20, 1884
To Hc(reQOr Bros. Sacramento: Remitting for
thirty-eight bales sold at seventeen to twenty
Good jobbing trade. GEO. W ELKlNS.
Those hops were portion of lot sent
East some time ago by George w. Hub
bard Elkins' agent on this coast, to be sold
on commission. At the time of their
arrival at Philadelphia they could have
been sold for % cents, but the producer de-
sired them 10 be held for be- prices. The
hop-growers Of this sectioiN wing the
example of the growers in New nrk, have
drafted a bill which they desire tie Legls-
lature to pass, and which they contend will
largely increase home consumption, and in
consequence enable them to get prices that
WILL Dc lAC Jill was y SS-
terday introduced in the Senate, by Senator
Reuter- of this county. and in the Assem-
bly, by Assenblyman Watson of Ell Dorado.
As one-half of the hops raised in California
are produced in this Immediate vicinity, no
doubt the bill will be read with interest by
many. 1t is as follows:
An Act to provide for the labelling of any bar
rel, keg cask, bottle, or other vessel containing
fermented liquors, and to prevent the adultera'
ton of the same.
Section l. Every brewer of beer, lager beer,
weiss beer, porter, or other fermented liquor,
shall be required TO label each barrel, keg
bottle or other vessel containing any termented
liquors, on the side and on the spigot end OF the
barrels kegs and vessels other than bottles
with label printed with type not smaller than
plea, and to renew the same whenever 1t is
lIlegible, on which label shall be printed a
statement showing the true name of each in
gredient or component part (other than water
of which or from which said beer or fermented
liquors shall have been made or manufactured
The name and quantity of every substitute for
hops or malt shall be truthfully stated, and the
brewers name shall appear at the bottom of
said label.
Section p For every violation of this Act by
neglecting to label each barrel, keg, or bottle,
as heretofore provided, or by so labelling the
same as 10 convey the idea that the contents
thereof are different as to the material used
from what they really are or for retailing, sell
ing or offering for sale any fermented liquors
whatsoever within the State of California, from
vessels barrels kegs, casks or bottles containing
beer ale or other fermented liquors, brewed or
manufactured by brewers in this State, or any
other State in the United States, which casks,
vessels, barrels, kegs or bottles are not labeled
as herein provided, the person or persons so
selling or Offering for sale snail be subject to
fine OF 500 and imprisonment for not more than
one year for such otiense, or both such fine and
Imprisonment.
Section s. This bill shall go into effect and be
in force from and after the first day of January,
1856.