The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-12

neighborhood Of 800 million liters Of
~ This is for the province OF
alone In h province OF
San Juan which adjoins il. the pounds
or grapes treated were about ITO mil
Mons and the wine made was $1,000
wv lterS or almost that many quarts.
Inc capital invested runs high into
me millions Of dollars. There are
altogether about $500 Wine-making
establishments in the republic. and
the area Of the vineyards is over ESQ
900 acres.
In order to give you an idea OF
these big W~ine-makins establish
ments L shall describe some features
OF that of Domingo TOmba, when |
nave just visited. This bodeea IS said
70 be The largest Wine-making estab-
ilsh1nfnt Of the whole world. It's
pullolngs Y many acres. Its cell
lars have forty-one departments for
storing and maturing wine. In its
fermertinS oons there are twenty
watts each holding 100, 600 gallons and
smaller watts with a total capacity Of
more than a million. There are alto
Setner four or five hundred watts and
even more tanks, the whole forming
reservoirs which will handle more
nan two million gallons at one time
The establishment has 1872 cars fol
bringing the cranes from the vine
yards to the winery and ninety-thret
traVeilnS tanks of $500 gallons each
Tor the transport of wine and grape
Juice from its other bodegas. The
capital OF the institution is three mil.
non dollars and / am told it is payin2
dlVldendS OF II per cent and lawns
away a big surplus, its profits al time.
being equal to SO per cent Of its caDi
tai stock The bodeGa was started j,
1886 and 1t has since its beginnins
made enough wine to drown a good
sized city and enough to give a larg,
goDlet to every man, n and chill,
upon earth.
The Tomba podega lies on the eds
OF Mendoza and | was able to reac]
it by street car. It is close to the erea
vineyards belonging to the establish
ment, and standing upon it the vine
seem to each the horizon on all side
except that facing the city. he build
lngs are low, but they have enOrmou
cellars underground and their floo
space covers acres. The grapes com
in by the car load and pass throug
crushing machines. The pulp is the
put through four inch pipes to IN
fermenting watts. My Spanish was nc
good enough for me to understan
distinctly all the processes OF win,
!, making, but | could see that tn
7 juice gOe through the cellar after &C
5 lar and from vat to vat III it's fcrmeI
/ tatlon. It is stored in tunS as tall {
) a three-story house, each OF whic
: will hold thousands of gallons, and a
so in great watts big enough to form
swimming bath for an elephant. TT
great hoesheadS or tunS in which tt
Wine is kept after making are equa
$ ~ large. l saw hundreds, each
9 which hold several thousand gallon
The weight of the liquid is SO gre;
that the slaves are several inch
thick and they are bound around vii
, heavy hoops Of steel. I asked whe'
the barrels came from n was to
= = that they were all made in Fran
g and shipped out to Mendoza.
4 cannot tell you the number Of &c
:, lars l went through, but I know tn
\ l walked teadily for an hour or mo
in my visit to this establishment. E
= erything is OF the most modern nal
The machinery is moved by electrici
= and the barrels in which the wine
h shipped are manufactured on t
premises. AS / went out [ passed
@ automobile, especially constructed f
+ the carrying of wine from the far
g to the factory. This machine held
900 quarts. I also saw them lOadi
the cars and carts with barrels
70 wine which are to be sent ver (
7 country. Altogether there are sever
% hundreds Of men employed on /
work.
1T I am delighted with Mendoza.
II is one Of the prettiest cities l Ia
seen in South America and it is one
1t the newest and freshest IS far
e appearances go. This is so, nOtWl
a standing it is one Of the oldest cit
q Of the continent. 1t was founded
years before Boston and was q thr
ag ing municipal organization BET,