248 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



1875 11,000 boxes. 



1876 19,000 boxes. 



1877 32,000 boxes. 



1878 48,000 box.-. 



1879 (15,000 boxes. 



1880 75,000 boxes. 



1881 00.000 boxes. 



1882.... 115,000 boxes. 



1883 125,000 box.-. 



1884 175,000 boxes. 



1885 500,000 boxes. 



1886 703,000 boxes. 



Thirteenth — From this you will notice that the growth of the industry 

 from 1875 to 1881, while steady, was not large; but after that many new 

 vineyards came into bearing, and the industry began to attract attention, 

 and the product largely increased, until it reached this year the quantity, 

 as above named, of over 700,000 boxes, or over 14,000,000 pounds of raisins, 

 which required about 50,000,000 pounds of green muscat grapes. 



Fourteenth — Good raisin land at Fresno County can be bought, with the 

 water right, all the way from $40 to $65 per acre, and many thousands of 

 acres are being planted out to the raisin grape, as it takes about two or 

 three years to bring a raisin vineyard into bearing. It is only a question 

 now, comparatively speaking, of a few years when the product of raisins. 

 is likely to nearly double year by year. This will continue until such 

 time as the supply exceeds the demand, but that is not very apt to occur.. 

 we think, for many generations yet. 



