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the intention is to add one thousand to one thousand two 

 hundred acres per annum for several years to come. The 

 Natoma Water Co., at Folsom, Sacramento County, had 

 something like six hundred acres, mostly in table grapes, 

 and have added one thousand two hundred acres last 

 spring, with the intention of adding as many more next 

 spring, for which the plants are already rooted in cutting 

 beds. Mr. Horatio P. Livermore, the business man- 

 ager, is a very intelligent and painstaking gentleman, 

 and imported many of the choicest wine grapes of Spain 

 and Portugal last spring, besides growing twenty thou- 

 sand Lenoir for their own planting. Messrs, Stern & 

 Rose, at San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, have seven 

 hundred and fifty acres in vines, and made at their mam- 

 moth establishment last year, four hundred and fifty 

 thousand gallons of wine, and one hundred and fifteen 

 thousand gallons of brandy. The San Gabriel Wine Co., 

 Mr. De Barth Shorb, manager, has one thousand five 

 hundred acres of vineyards surrounding their new build- 

 ings, one of which has a capacity of one hundred and 

 twenty-five by two hundred and sixty feet, and the other 

 of one hundred and seventy-five by two hundred and 

 sixteen feet, and three stories high, are capable of work- 

 ing up two hundred tons of grapes per day. Messrs, 

 Kohler and Frohling, the pioneer wine makers of the 

 State, have an immense establishment at Los Angeles, 

 where they make mostly sweet wines and brandy, and 

 another in Sonoma County, of one hundred and fifty 

 acres of bearing vineyards, where mostly light wines are 

 made, and three large cellars in San Francisco. Vine- 

 yards of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred 

 and fifty acres are quite frequent all over the State, and 

 Xapa Valley presents, from the town of Xapa up to Cal- 

 istoga, a distance of about thirty miles, an area of al: 

 continuous vineyards. These extend through the whole 

 breadth of the valley, and far up amon^r the slopes of the 



