The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-04

oreds Of great barrels connected With
pipes into which the vine and brandy was
cost Of the buiidinEs Of this brandy fac
tory 10 moro than Si5Q0o0. and they are
lighted by electricity. The cOopershop of
this establishment Il worth notice. The
eooperaxe and tie storage vaults will hold
/. 500. COO gallons. and the casks OF these
vaults are so tall tina. II benjamin Har-
rison could stand on Grover Cseveiand's
head he could not more than reach
70 the top of them. In the fermentins
gallons. and in the bonded warehouse are
barrels containing more than half . mil
lion gallons. The hraAdy IN the bonded
warehouse is guarded night and aay by
United States government ofI3cera 4
gauger Is here most of the time. and there
Il government officer Always in charge Of
It. When any of this brandy Is taken out
for sale. the money for the tax has TO be
put down before it can be gotten. II 10
like the buying o: postage stampA There
Is no credit to the United States. and ven
have to pay cash. During the last month
$l7,s2 was given to the government for
taxes. and something like 500 COO worth of
taxes have. l em told. been paid for
brandy which is still unshipped. and in
addition to this. as have said before, Mr..
Morse, the government stosekceper. tells
me there il due Uncle Sam at least
$3.50. 90 worth Of brandy tax. The owners
Of the brandy have right TO leave il in
the warehouse from three to tive years. but
they are not allowed TO move barrel until
the tar is paid. This bonded warehouse 10
said to be the largest in the world. Il is
lighted By electricity. and in walking
through il between the tho usands Of bar.
reis you seem to be In shs very catacombs
Of barrels.
This big vineyard embraces about six
square miles Of territory. The whole is
LAID off with perfect regularity into blocks
Of uniform size and streets Of regular
width. 1t is in fact city Of grapes. Each
block contains about 40 vines. and the
main streets which run through them from
east 70 west are forty-eizht feet wide and
they are cut up BY avenues sixteen feet in
width. There are about six hundred
and eighty vines to the acre. and
l was surprised to find that the vines
were trimmed down almost close to the
earth every year. Some of the vines are
very Old and Others have just been
planted. Tho grapes sre ripe about the
last Of July and the picking OF tho grapes
begins about the first of August. They
are picked in boxes holding nifty hounds
each and there are 12.0O0 Of these boxes
ready for use. The picking Is done by
gangs of men and boys, and ct its height
about thousand men are employed. The
vineyards are plowed regularly and their
cultivation is carefully watched with hoe
and harrow. Capt. Mcintyre has been
for wears engaged ins vine growing and
basis. Even in the picking Of grapes the
greatest care is used. The grapes are
sorted as they are picked. The men gather
the grapes in pairs, each man carrying .
box. As they 90 from vine 10 vine they
put the bad grapes in one box and the
best ones in the other, and these are used for
different grades of wine or brandy. The
picking always begins early in the day,
and ii the weather Is very hot il Is sus-
pended and resumed only late in the after
noon and carried on INTO The night. so
that the pickers work the usual number of
hours. A good picker ought to average
forty boxes or q ton Of grapes . day, and
some men can pick as much - ton and a
half.
1t may interest you to know what men
eat in one Of these big farm boarding
orders for just what they want, and every
item has to be specified. From monthly
order before me see that they consumed
last month three barrels of sugar. one
barrel Of rolled oata and large GUAM
titles ct corn starch + inacarO11l beams.
peas, sausage, rice, sago, tea and coffee
and meat Nearly all the meat and vege-
sopsSS UNIV AtotA tSSc t0IItl, anu Ill Oh the
butter and milk. The men have their
breakfast at a. M. and are allowed fortv
minutes to cat. At o they 20 out 10 work
With their teams and at IL 80 they stop for
dinner and lay of until quarter Of I.
They stop work at o and have supper 1t 7.
As far as could see they seemed to enjoy
themselves aud to be sort OF happy-so-
lucky crowd. They have baseball club
OF their own, and there il dancing club
which they keep up. Some of them are
good boxers, but they nearly all belong 10
that class Of workmen which you find in
California. who drift along from place to
place, working all along the Coast from
Los Angeles to Seattle. and not seeming
to care for home Of their own.
spent some time in looking at the fine
horses on this ranch. There are 3s3 which
were brought here in special cars from the
faio Alto ranch, and there is q race track
here of mile in length for the training
OF them. The kindergarten is a little pen
containing q circular track perhaps a Guar.
ter OF mile in length. and the trainer
stands In the center of this with whip
and cracks this at the colts as they run
ABOUT II. senator STANFORD told me one
Said he:
Il believe there are certain muscles
which the horse uses while he is going
fast that are never called into play when
he IS making his ordinary gait. The horse
which - never specded does not cali into
play these muscles. He may have the
germs OF them. but they are dormant and
naooy. believe by the cultivation Of these
muscles by speeding Ahe colts that thew
grow and become stronger from wear to wear
ana the colt thus acquires his perfection.
me Chief thing - TO prevent them over
doing You can ruin the training Of wear,
IN an hour. and the greatest trouble i, in
getting good trainers. Ny idea is TO excite
the colts TO do their best without over.
exertion. and this done from dav 70 dav
with any of the great horses of the dav
taken when they were young would have.
l believe. made them do better work than
they are now doing"
am told here at VIVA that the car has
offered 20 send Senator Stanford ANYTIME
he wants in his stables in rcturn foy :
couple OF good horses from Palo Alto for
breeding purposes. II Is not known nos;.
,iseiy WHIST horses viii he sent TO Russia.
our the trainers here think tina, among
those picked out u i'll be the stallion GooS
''iii- Good Gift is by Eiectioneer ont
OF ,aoroughbred mare. lie has a good
record and is beautifully formed. Senator
stanford thinks that the orloff b-ced
would. II il could be introduced into ,h,.
country. become = very popular coach
horse Tor the rich people of our cities. The
or'oa horses are large and snowy. The
most OF them are black. They possess
great endurance ana are noted for their
hne action and their high spirit. They
make good time and they wouli h,,ny mo
prices in the United States The senate
has Two magnificent coach horses Al
Washington City which are as black a.
JET. and watch are made very much after
the STYLE of the Or.offs. do not know AZ
10 their breed. bat they are one o, the
most valuable coach teams in the L ni,ei
states senator Stanford believes that
no greater thing can be done for
the farming interests OF the rnitst
SlAfAS han The