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Transactions op tite 



Men. 



Haggart 



Arassmusson. 

 Gallagher 



Loin 



joiiry. 



MICHIGAN FLAT. 



George E. Williams. 



James Kane 



August Weimer 



Andrews 



Mortison 



Jones 



GOLD HILL. 



Sweeney 



Tinney , 



Bowser 



Poteet 



Jewell 



Veerkamp 



Tobner 



O'Brien 



J. W. Anable. 

 G. W. Gale.... 



Total. 



Acres. 



15 

 15 

 10 

 10 



25 



10 

 20 

 25 

 12 

 12 



12 

 12 

 10 

 15 

 25 

 40 

 15 

 20 

 5 

 8 



GG6 



Add to this amount the vineyards of Coulterville, in the aggregate, 

 one hundred acres; of Johntown, or Gordon Valley, fifteen acres; of 

 Kelsey, twenty acres; and Georgetown thirty acres, and we have about 

 eight hundred acres of bearing vines in this portion of El Dorado 

 County. 



CROPS, MARKETS, RATES, ETC. 



The yield this season will bo immense, unprecedented. No disease 

 has ever been known among vines in this region, except, perhaps, a little 

 mildew, yet the frost and other meteorological influence sometimes injure 

 crops. This year nothing has marred the vigorous growth of the vint- 

 age, and the grape harvest will be abundant. Many loads will be hauled 

 over the mountains to Virginia and Carson markets and sold for four 

 and five cents per pound. Large quantities "will be sold to Chalmers and 

 other wine makers, at an average price of fifteen dollars per ton. Many 

 of the leading vine growers have tho necessary apparatus and make 

 their own wine. It costs three cents per gallon to convey wine from 

 Coloma to Shingle Springs by means of wagons, tho distance being 

 twelve miles. It costs, also, three cents per gallon to convey wino from 



