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THE RAISIN INDUSTRY. 



[From the " Chino Champion,'' San Bernardino County.] 



Fresno seems to stand ahead in the quantity of raisins cured and ship- 

 ped this year, but neither the soil nor climate there is better than in this 

 valley for growing the raisin grape and making raisins. About a month 

 ago the "San Bernardino Index" interviewed a former resident of the 

 county, then on a visit down here, who has spent some years in Fresno, 

 on the raisin business. While giving Fresno credit for great success 

 honestly earned, he said: 



"Yes, but it is all a mistake to credit Fresno with better facilities for 

 growing and curing fine raisins than are possessed here, for those of this 

 county are in nearly every respect superior. The raisin here is more deli- 

 cate in flavor and richer in sugar, and Fresno vineyards do not begin to 

 yield like those of this county." 



The "Index" says: "W. T. Henderson was present at the interview r 

 and said that his young vineyard at Highlands was doing well; that, 

 although it was not by any means in full bearing, he had sold over seven 

 tons of cured raisins from a little less than four acres, from which state- 

 ment we infer that he received considerably over $200 an acre for the crop." 



Wherever the raisin grape has been planted and properly cultivated in 

 this county, the results have been large. Right around Chino there are 

 many thousand acres of choice land for the profitable raisin grape. 



