LITERATURE. 



The literature of the raisin industry is a very scant one, and as far 

 as I have been able to ascertain not a single work especially devoted to 

 this industry has appeared in any language. The various cyclopedias 

 contain articles on raisins, but they are all more or less confused and 

 unreliable, and of no great use to any one who wishes only reliable 

 information, and who must depend upon the same for practical pur- 

 poses. As regards California, much information has been given about 

 raisin growing and curing in almost every newspaper published in the 

 State. To mention them all would be to enumerate all the papers of 

 the Pacific Coast. I can here refer only to a few of the principal ones, 

 where the student who has time and inclination to follow up the subject 

 may find material for a more detailed history of the raisin industry 

 than the one I have written. 



First among these papers I must mention the Pacific Rural Press ; 

 edited by that distinguished horticulturist, Professor B. J. Wickson, 

 and published by Messrs. Dewey & Co. of San Francisco. In the files 

 of this weekly, frorij^lj^pto tne present time, 1890, may be found 

 scattered many interestmgarticles referring to our subject. A paper 

 contemporaneous with it was the San Francisco Merchant, which con- 

 tained many interesting articles on raisins and raisin grapes, especially 

 during the period from 1881 to 1887. In the issues of the Press and 

 Horticulturist of Riverside, San Bernardino county, California, we find 

 during a series of years occasional notes and articles referring to the 

 raisin industry of that section of the country. As regards the Santa 

 Ana and Orange county district, the Anaheim Gazette will prove the 

 most reliable guide, as recording the rise and decline, and, as we believe, 

 also the revival, of the raisin industry of that section. The Yolo 

 Democrat and the Woodland Mail published at Woodland, Yolo county, 

 have devoted much space to the raisin industry of that section. In 

 Fresno county the ^rosooj^epublican . between the years 1882 and 1887, 

 contained weekly a "separate department for viticulture and horticul- j 

 ture edited by the author of this book, and that paper has ever afterwards 

 devoted much space to recording the progress of the raisin industry of 

 the country. The Fresno Expositor, the oldest paper in Fresno county, 

 has contained much information about raisin grapes and vineyards since 

 *873, when the first raisin- vines were planted in the county. During 

 the period from 1888 to 1890, this paper contained almost daily edito- 

 rials upon the raisin industry, mostly contributed by this author. 



The California Fruit Grower, a weekly horticultural paper mentioned 

 below, has since its beginning a few years ago made dried fruit its 

 specialty, and has contained many important articles on our industry, 

 and in its columns may be found the most reliable raisin statistics pub- 

 lished in this State. The San Francisco Examiner contained in 1888 s. 

 series of articles on raisins, contributed by this author. The San Francisco 



