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and these varieties, therefore, are what the company will have 

 for the present to build the reputation of their wine upon. 



In the earlier days of their yield it was not deemed advisa- 

 ble to make wine of their product, and it was sold to Messrs. 

 Kohler & Van Bergen, of Sacramento, and by them made in- 

 to wine with results reported as most satisfactory. 



In this year, however, (1887) the company proposes to 

 make its own wine and to that end has erected the first sec- 

 tion of its wine house, calculating upon a capacity of three 

 hundred thousand gallons, to be increased in succeeding 

 years as the increased yield of the vineyard calls for larger ac- 

 commodation. 



All these varieties are reported as showing a good crop this 

 year, considering the age of the vines, and if they behave as 

 well in the wine house as they have in the vineyard, some 

 very interesting results may be expected, as each kind will be 

 made separately. 



The wine house is situated, not on the railroad track (as is 

 generally preferred when there is a railroad) but on a bluff 

 nearly in the center of the wine vineyard, half a mile from 

 the railroad. 



It is one story high, covering ground space 96x130 feet, 

 doubled walled, leaving central air space, is of wood, ceiled 

 inside with tongued and grooved lumber, also similarly ceiled 

 above to rafters, so as to make practically a double roof. 

 Eight ventilators regulate the temperature, which, it is claimed, 

 has been found easy to control, so as to keep a temperature 

 of 75 F in the wine house when upwards of ioo u in the 

 shade outside. The roof is divided into two gables and a 

 two (2) story tower is built at the end, to carry elevator and 

 crusher, which is Heald's latest improved, operated by steam 

 engine, and handles forty-five or fifty tons per day of ten hours. 



Under said tower on front line of the wine house runs the 

 driveway for loaded wagons to elevator and crusher. Hy- 



