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STATEMENT OF ORLEANS HILL YINICULTUKAL ASSOCIA- 

 TION, OF SACRAMENTO. 



To the Committee on Gold Medals: 



Gentlemen: The history of grape culture and the manufacture of 

 wine is too well known and written up to require comment from us. 

 The benefits to the country and to this State are well understood by 

 you. You are well aware of the fact, that we have in this State thou- 

 sands of acres of land of but little value for any other purpose, and yet 

 when put under cultivation in the grape are rendered of equal, if not 

 greater value than any other lands, even the best wheat and orchard 

 lands. In twenty years from this time this industry will, in our opinion, 

 if properly encouraged, be of greater value to the State than any other. 

 The Orleans Hill Vinicultural Association are fostering this industry to 

 their utmost ability, and this fact we urge as a reason why we are 

 entitled to the gold medal in this department. We also claim the medal 

 for the reason that we have this year exhibited at the State Fair the 

 greatest variety of uniformly good wines, and obtained for them the 

 greatest number of premiums and special awards. We therefore ask at 

 your hands the gold medal for wines. 



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 Eespectfullj', 



OELEANS HILL YINICULTUKAL ASSOCIATION, 



By Carl Strobel, Secretary. 



STATEMENT OF B. N. BUGBEY. 



To the Committee State Agricultural Society awarding Department Gold 

 Medals: 



Gentlemen: The undersigned, an exhibitor in the late State Fair at 

 Sacramento, claims the award of the gold medal in the fifth department, 

 for the following reasons: 



First — That wines and brandies are the most valuable and important 

 in the list of articles competing for the gold medal in this department, 

 the value of the product of grapes being the third leading agricultural 

 product of the State; also, that it is more important to foster the wine 

 producing interest than any other in the fifth department of the late 

 State Fair, as giving greater employment and increased value to land 

 and labor than any other in proportion to the capital invested. 



Second — That the undersigned, as an exhibitor, has made the largest and 

 more valuable exhibit of wines and brandies produced from foreign 

 varieties of grapes — all of excellent flavor; thereby showipg conclu- 

 sively the capacity of our soil and climate to produce successfully the 

 finer wines of France, Germany, .Spain, and other wine countries of 

 Europe. This result has been effected through great cave and expense, 

 extending over a period of nearly ten years, and is destined to have an 

 important and favorable influence in competing with the finer varieties 

 of wines which have heretofore been imported from Europe. The under- 



