Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-27
EAST OF THR ROCKIES.
EAST OF TER ROCKIES.
Twenty Squares Of Property Burned
in Mobile, Alabama.
HIGH WATERS IN NEW YORK.
California Produces One-half OF
the Grape Crop of the
United States-Etc.
feprr,.r nrsp rcurs To THE REcORp-UNroE
ESPECIAL DIsrAroHEs TO THE nEoonD-vsIos.l ]
vITICULTURE.
California Raises One-half the Grape
Product of the United States.

California Raises One-half the Grape
Product of the United states.
WASHINGTON, October 26th.-Colonel Fl
Gardiner is a special agent of the Census
Department for the collection of statistic
relating to viticulture, a branch of agricult
ure which has Eever before received
official attention in this country.
He says: II spent three months in Cali
fornia this season, giving official attention
to its yiiicultural interests. The grape.
grown in California to-day include every
variety that have made European vine
wards famous. In no other vine region o
the world are all these splendid grapes
found growing side by side, and they max,
California the wonderland of the vine.
have no doubt that it will surprise even th'
grape and wlne-growers themselves Il
know that there are invested in vineyards
and wine cellars in the United States oyel
$155,000,000
81 find by statistics, which are now col
lected for the first time," said Colonel Gar
diner, that there are in round number
100000 acres of this country planted Il
vineyards, of which 800 000 will be in bear
ing this year There is an increase of 900,
600 acres in vineyard area during the pas
ten years, and an increase of over $4,000,
600 year of capital invested. OF the ares
of bearing vines in the country, California
alone has $50 600 acres. including % 00(
acres of raisin grapes. That State also ha:
total invested capital of nearly S5S GOO, GOO
Between 30,OO0,0 600 aud 40 coo 600 gal
Ions of wine will be made in the United
States this year, OF which California will
produce more than half Seven -eighths o
the grapes of California go to the wine press
he nf %
rest OF the United States are for table use.
California alone grows raisn grapes
Although every county in the State pro
duces grapes, the principal counties of rails
ins are Napa, Sonoma, Fresno, Santa Clara
San Diego, San Bernardino and Los An
geles, although there are many others o
more or less importance. The counties o
Fresno, San Bernardino, San Diego anC
Tllare comprise the great raisin district
and will cure 1000, 600 boxes this fall. Th'
product is worth at least So 900 600. Th,
grapes grown for raisins are the Muscat 0
Alexandria and the Muscat del CARD
Blanco. These counties grow large guam
titles of wine grapes also, and the swee
wines of California come principally from
that district. Fresno county has 6500'
acres of vineyards, Sonoma 26000 ant
Napa 16, 900.
What may be called dry wine, but ol
California, is in the counties of Napa, So
noma, Santa Clara, Alameda and one O.
two adjacent counties, covering au area o.
fifty miles northeast and south of Sar
Francisco. Good dry wine; of differen
characters are also made in some of tn,
Sacramento Valley counties. The swee
wines come from the southern counties o
the wine region. They make a good dea
of sherry in the latter district, but Cahfor
MIA will never be famous for sherry. Ari
zons is the coming sherry making regior
of this country, and will one day be to u
in that respect what Spain is to the worlt
to-day. Neither is California good cham
pagne-making region. When native cham
payne takes the place of imported it will
not be to California that We must look fo
it, but to New York State.
THE phylloxera, which during the pas
few years played great havoc with Califor
mia vineyards, is being gradually, bu
surely, overcome. The inferior varieties
of grapes upon which the pest feeds ar,
being rooted out, and choice foreign varie
ties, which are subject to it, are protected
against it by grating on the native wild
varieties known as resistant vines-vine
which phyiloxera does not affect