New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-21
CALIFORNIA GRAPES.
From me san Francisoo cal.


Cranes are consnme as table fruit as rasins and in
thc shane of brandy well in the shape OF wine All
these be added together to determine the total ye
It is impossible to estimate the quantity of grapes con-
sumed as table fruit. During the fall season they are 10
be every table Ill California ana II Il inoSsIpde
10 form conjecture as to the hummer OF ouhus OF
lose oakland Sacramento Stockton santa Rosa Red
Bluff Tehama and the other cities OF me state 20 say
nothing of villages and farm houses one dealer tou
ah reporter that san Francisco had been consuming or
time ana would consume FOR some time TO come me
consumption lasts sixty days II must absorb oOoooVo
fonsmnntion of the whole would be something like
TO- 900 tons but in the country where animal FOOD IS
more paringy than here the consumption of grapes
Besides the table grapes which have been consumed
here large quantity has been shipped East Here aSan
there is difficulty in getting accurate gres as the irt
traus have been generally dispatched from Interior pnts
and have not come 10 san Francisco AT an. 1t = cr
stood that 900 carloads of grapes have gone Tor
ward from Sacramento Nacavllle mas prooanty us us
patched 500, and perhaps 800 more nave Dee sent Io
San jose. san Francisco Los Angeles ana olneI points
Altogether We have probably Sent 10 Ile Last 'nS year
1000 carloads OF 10000 tons OF taple grapes W..
The raisir product is pretty accurately Known, we
boSe Of rasns ms against 100000 boxes produced last
year They will not net as lnuch money III nop"rlohi
last year. Owing to the cholera scare many Eastern con
sumers took California raisus in preference 20 Spanish
raisins and of course. If we onbe onr product now we
LAYERS are now selling at 81 50aSl 70 per box as against
" 81 d last year. and seedless snnas at 81 aSl 80
as against 81 50 last year To ascertain ne qmm,y os
cranes dried raiSjns we must multiply the ponds ot
rasins by three, as it takes three pounds OF gIrS 10
Il
mounds OF raisus which have Tor sale uls year. IL
consumed 30 900 900 pounds or l5OOO tons OF grapes
Finally ill., consequence VI the failure OF Congress 10
hill, makers II sweet wines III me
pfrrn counties are finding il cheaper make brandy
direct than to fOify their sweet wines and to pay the lax
ON the spirits used for that purpose thus ABOUT 5oOVoo
gaons of crane brandy will be made direct III Los An
coles and other counties this year WHICH, had
Congress passed the hill would nave made lts appearance
90 wet wine These 100000 gallons OF brandy when
equivalent to l.2OOOOo gallons vi "0' VIII 'o'"'
about 900 tons or grapes. ., a., ..,.,,.,,o,,, T.
\Nc can now To understand inc cH'uauouN
s, no remembered that ton Of grapes Il supposed 10
vicd no gallons winc thus by dNlulhS the wine pro-
AM bv 20 we arrive at the result Ia tons .
The yrapc product California in 1856 would thus
seem 10 have been as fOloWs'
| 'N
craues used in wine 10 900 900 gallons, or..l25Wm
ON here table fruit.
shipped table no
,,no
Made brandy direct w
.,.,o. ~ thu stat. in TONS l7s 600
Some difficulty Is experienced in qaing grapes per oh
he nrice varies widely Mission grapes are sclhiS
nor and in demand except lOr DIaluy
making MalNOisie grapes can DC uVue, ~, ~ ~ ~
un thle frames as the Nluscate the Black Hamburg,
tho Pose of Peru the CornichOn, tucate III tnc market
according to supply and demand sellis as Io", WIN
H. ara ,hundt as cents box, or p3O On ana as
III h.n they are scarce and me, as 81 Don or
Gina ION Lnfande grapes are now selling NJ H-Vdf-
g. 80. aud i70Slo in Sonoma Rieslng grapes Will
nvernse about SO u ton II we say that the 'ot' Vop
al, vrrng, ali round $50 ton. which Is not much II NJ
nil tno high the grape crop OF the state mas been worth
| this season r3,JooooV 49,. ,,., - ~, -.
VIM nrtduccrs we find the old counties OF Napa ana
sonona as usual the head Of the list The loOoOOoO
eos at which the State output is recsOned divided as
follows: