Year: 1866

were eaden or iron weights have passed an gone FOR
tnis country forever. No more will the barav ooen
noeru minded but foolish miner down the
aaeDto aiter month or season of toll I'M the
mines to the Bay City for spree and souander his one
TWO OF three thousand dollars in week or two and nv
nat o,n 20 his mine for another pile. "Pcs are
los 80 readily secured now. and miners are made of
9inerent class OF peoples nearly ell of them are dey ia
rorers In the quartz districts Placer mining s done
VIII, ana II was placer mining which yielded so easily
and ruitfuy in the earlier days The quartz mpers work
hard and steadily and thousands Of them were neyee
yet possessed OF {" fifty dollar slug" They never
think OF visiting the Bay City for spree for the reason
that they never have money enough to pay their pass
age to the Bay City. Still, the present-day miner
has to be supplied with the necessaries of lfe and
these are furnished steadily and regularly by the bust
houses Of San Francisco The demand is not quite
as heavy. perhaps. because the people are now much
more economical.


In earlier days miners were always seen clad In tho
best Of garments. These they were constantly pur.
chasing Nor would they stop TO mend rent. but cast
aside torn garment and procure new one You
may know miner now by his dapidated boots and
bis mended coat with patch upon patch upon them.
And STILL this is In business thrifty point of view.
much more healthy state Of affairs than existed in
the early times.


VINE CULTURE AND wINE-MAKING.


II Is claimed for California, that there is net In
all the world so fine wine country The crop Of grapes
never fails, never mildews never bights while in all
European vineyards these oalamities occur almost
every year. not more than one year In four bringing
good crop In California, Also the facilities for
curing the crop manufacturing and rpening the wine.





TO the United States Assistant Assessor represent
ing the quantity OF wine In the single township OF
Sonoms from tho vintage OF 1866. foot up i96.29s
gallons and are from So vineyards. There is wine in
this State now only four or five years old, that will
rank with any European wine Of greater age. 1t is
sale here sverywhere-port, sherry. ciaret whito
and redat from 80 cents to 81 per quart bottle and Ia
far phrer, and of finer flavor, than any foreign
wines at the East. SO. also. regards the
champagne and brandy. Wine making. requires
so much capital, and so long time before re-
turns available, that the time has not yet come for
the introduction of these wines into the market in
quantities 10 meet the demand that will be created for
them when sent there in proper condition. 1t Is but
very few years since the first vineyard was laid out
in this State and yet there is already largo
number of them. many Of, which have from
10000 10 100000 producing vines One vine
yard last year yielded 49, 4s gallons Of wine Consider
the outlay in the first place, for the land then for
the vines and the labor Of planting and cutiyatng and
then take into consideration the fact that ten years
have TO apse before the product be sold As each
year rolls by, however. the wine-maker approaches
the time when he will realize. and there will be
interruption. he will send to market the vintage OF
each year in Its order Capital to start upon and pa
tience 10 wait, are all that IL necessary. MHh