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In this class of wines I have no competition among the exhibitors and 

 claimants of the gold medal, and this fact alone, I submit, should be 

 sufficient to decide the question of merit and the medal. 



RAISINS. 



I also exhibited samples of raisins produced by me. Very soon after 

 engaging in the cultivation of a vineyard I determined to learn by 

 personal experience whether a good article of raisins could not be made 

 in California. My experiments were crowned with perfect success. I 

 succeeded in proving that California is capable of not only supplying 

 the one hundred and eighty thousand dollars worth of raisins annually 

 imj)orted, but if her people were disposed to engage in the business with 

 energy and spirit, they could soon supply the entire demand for the whole 

 United States. The annual importation of the "United States is valued 

 at about one million two hundred thousand dollars. The success of my 

 efforts proves conclusively that we have a soil and climate in the western 

 slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains most eminently adapted to the 

 successful and profitable prosecution of this industry. All we want to 

 secure this entire trade and this large amount of mone} r annually is a 

 proper degree of enterprise, perseverance, and cheap and reliable labor. 

 If there is any merit in having been the pioneer* in an industry promis- 

 ing such vast resulting advantages to our State, then I om\ entitled to that 

 merit, and I have no doubt the committee will award it to me. I have 

 made and marketed some ten thousand boxes of raisins in this State, 

 receiving for them the highest market j^rice. The only reason why I 

 have not made this a principal branch of my business is, that my wine, 

 champagne, and brandy manufactures, and the cultivation and extension 

 of my vineyard, have taken all my time. Were I relieved from the care 

 of these departments, I should engage immediately in the cultivation 

 and manufacture of raisins. 



The following is a list of the articles exhibited by me at the State 

 Fair of eighteen hundred and seventy-one: 



One dozen bottles of Muscatel wine, vintage of 18G9; 



One dozen bottles of White Frontingnac wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Gray Eeisling wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Black Prince wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Alaconte wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Traurina wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of White Eeisling wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Johannisberg wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of White Malaga wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Verdelho wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of White Nice wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Pedro Exomenus wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Orleans wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of White St. Peter's wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Royal Muscatine wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Charabertin wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Zinfindel wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Port wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Sparkling Muscatel wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of Champagne wine, vintage of 1869; 



One dozen bottles of brandy, vintage of 1868; 



