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it all a dream, and ask again to be returned to his fathers. Such, however, 

 is the California of to-day. Great in vast resources developed and unde- 

 veloped. Powerful in her great and rapidly growing wealth and influence. 

 Beautiful beyond description in her natural scenery, and rich in a climate 

 which permits a man ten to eleven months in the year to sit in sunshine 

 under his " own vine and fig .tree." 



Famed throughout the world for a hospitality which has no equal; the 

 land of flowers, of fruit, and of wine, of lovely women and of song — " Viva 

 California." 



The Product of 1887. 



Raisins (20-pound boxes) - 800,000 



H oney, extracted (pounds).- A 1,090,000 



Honey, comb (pounds) 250,000 



Beeswax (pounds) 25,000 



French prunes (pounds) 1,750,000 



German prunes (pounds) 75,000 



Apples, sun-dried (pounds) 200,000 



Peaches, sun-dried (pounds) 1,750,000 



Plums, sun-dried (pounds) 400,000 



Pears, sun-dried (pounds) . 40,000 



Grapes, sun-dried (pounds) . 600,000 



Apricots, sun-dried (pounds) ^ . 200,000 



Nectarines, sun-dried (pounds) . 100,000 



Figs, sun-dried (pounds) 90,000 



Apples, evaporated (pounds) . 550,000 



Apricots, evaporated. ) (r . miri A^ o onft nnn 



Apricots, bleached ... |(P ouncls ) d,uuu,uuu 



Peaches, evaporated, peeled (pounds) ... 500,000 



Peaches, evaporated, unpeeled (pounds) 750,000 



Plums, evaporated (pounds) 50,000 



Nectarines, evaporated (pounds) .. 50,000 



Walnuts (pounds) 1,500,000 



Almonds (pounds) 500,000 



Peanuts (pounds) 250,000 



California Raisins. — After a careful review, we estimate the outturn for 

 1887 at eight hundred thousand boxes, and divided as follows: 



Fresno District (boxes) 350,000 



Tulare District (boxes) 10,000 



Riverside district (boxes) 180,000 



Orange and Santa Ana District (boxes) 85,000 



San Diego District (boxes) 20,000 



San Bernardino County, outside of Riverside District (boxes) 10,000 



Yolo and Solano (boxes). 125,000 



Scattering — Yuba, Butte, Sacramento, Placer, etc. (boxes) 20,000 



Total (boxes) 800,000 



Owing to heavy and untimely rains which did great damage in some of 

 the largest raisin sections of the State, the output fell considerably short of 

 calculations made early in the season, and which were based on the heavy 

 yield of the vines. This, however, is not apt to often occur, and had it 

 not been for this unfortunate turn of affairs the product, as at first esti- 

 mated, would undoubtedly have reached one million boxes of twenty pounds 

 each. 



The consumption of California raisins on the Pacific Coast and Territo- 

 ries we estimate at one hundred thousand boxes yearly. 



As was the case last year, it will be noticed that Fresno again heads the 

 list, and the development of the raisin industry in that portion of the State 

 is not only wonderful, but startling. A few years ago Fresno County was 

 looked upon as a barren plain, but to-day it is the great raisin section of 

 California, and within a few years promises to be the raisin section of the 

 world. It is in fact the home of the raisin, the apricot, the peach, and the 



