Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-01
IT'S A GREAT STATE
California Mines and Politics
Are Discussed.
ALGEa is THE SLOPES CHOICE
And Her Wines Are the Equal ef Any
Ever Produced from SUM-
Kissed Grapes.

c. c. MeIver OF San Francisco. sr,
rived st the Morton yesterday. Mr.
McIver is well.known horsemsn ol
the slope, and is aiso proprietor OF IA,
Linda Vista vineyards located as Ms
SION s&l jose. about thirty-seven miiei
north e San Francisco. 81 don't think
very many people realize the extsnt oi
the wine industry IN California" re-
marked McIver last evening. while
chatting with reporter for TIE nER
AID. "fhere are between tl50, ,o00. .00(
and $500. .000. 90 invested in II already
and this amount 10 sncreasing ALI ths
time. There are some magnificent
vineyards In the state. and some excel
lent wine is being produced. A great
many people sneer st California wines
but the time is coming. and
it isn't very far away, when those peo'
pie will be forced TO admit that the
wines raised in California are the equal
of anything raised in this or any other
country. OF course they will never
have the same flavor that the French
or German wines have; but NOBODY y
with any sense would expect them 70.
An expert in wines would never think
of comparing them with German,
French, spanish or ItaIian wines.
There can be no comparison; because
each wine has a peculiar, distinctive
taste due 70 the climate and soil. The
flavor of the wine made from the Cali
fornia grape is unlike that OF any other
wine, but 1t 10 40 delicate aud high .
flavor.
The great trouble with California
wines is that the owners of vineyards
have never had capital enough so they
could hold their stock and let
it mature. As result
they have had TO sell their wines when
they weren't fit TO drink, and the repu-
tation of the industry has suffered in
consequence. Men are now able 10
hold their vintage longer, and conse-
quently when it is put on the market IL
Is as good % anything going. This is
beginning to be recognized. / find
brands of my clarets on the wine lists
of nearly all first-class hotels. and my
wines have been used in the Pullman
buffet cars for years.
We haven't produced much cham
pagne yet, but It ID an industry that Il
growing. The manufacture of cham
pagne Is widely different from the max.
ing of clarets. IL is science that must
be thoroughly mastered. Aepad Hae.
aezthy came to this conclusion and in-
ported some Of the most skillfuI French
manufactured. As result he - max.
ing q champagne that 10 the equal OF
anything produce d."
Have you 8ny politics out your
way" asked the reporter.
s'Great goshl should Say We had. -
returned Mr.. McIver With euthuaasn,
"Chuck full of politics of the good old
orshodoK republican kind. Just such
poiit,oq tH1t mAke9 = atate 20 our way
by bif 4e51dtys Ayers our choice.
too. At iIiSt&e favored Blaine. bul
now that Blaine is ont OF it we are
ready to throw all his support 70 Al.
ger. General Alger is infinitely more
popu{tr With CAilforn:a Republicans
than Hreeidey1f Harrison. They havcn't
any fault to And with the president.
He is clean, earnest, honorable man
But General Alger is all that and more.
And besides the rest Of his qualifica.
tions he is each mighty good fellow
tn at be il worthy of anybody's support
for any office. If the Almighty eyeI
made man that Was 4 man from the
ground up it is Russell A. Alger. He il
my ideal of a typical. generous hearted
American. II the republican conven
ton will nominate him California viii
give him q majority that will enthuse
tho old slope from Cape FIattery q
San Diego"