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planting, thirty thousand cuttings, are of these grapes. Their yield is 

 turned into raisins, and amounted, last year, to from six to ten tons. It 

 takes three tons of grapes to make one of raisins. The market price 

 ranges from twelve and a half to fifteen cents per pound, and California 

 varieties were sold last year in preference to the old Malaga grape 

 raisins. 



pioneer Marshall's vineyard. 



The man who discovered gold, and thus turned thousands of faces 

 Californiaward, was also among the discoverers of the practicability of 

 the industry which has superseded mining. He has fifteen acres of 

 vines, among which are seventy-five varieties of choice grapes. For 

 many years he invested every cent of his earnings in sending East or to 

 Europe for new kinds of vines, and testing their adaptability to the soil 

 and climate of El Dorado County. He sold cuttings and grapes, and the 

 Coloma viniculturists are indebted to him for some of their choicest and 

 most profitable varieties. 



men and acres. 



The following table shows approximately the number of acres of 

 bearing vines in the vicinity of Coloma. The figures may be a trifle too 

 large or too small in individual cases, but the best authorities have been 

 consulted in cases where I did not receive the amounts from the owners 

 themselves: 



Men. 



Acres. 



COLOMA. 



Eobert Chalmers 



Wm, I). Othick 



Albert Mosely 



Patrick Kane 



E. Macbeth 



Crocker 



Peterson 



Mahler 



Frank Armstead 



Frank Gallagher 



Hooper , 



Barnes 



Marshall 



E. Smith 



Sundry small vineyards 



uniontown. 



Eamsay 



White 



Mrs. Haun 



Valentine , 



Cappelman 



110 

 15 



6 

 15 



8 

 12 



4 



5 

 20 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 15 



5 

 15 



20 

 30 

 15 

 10 

 15 



