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draulic press are also conveniently located under the tower. The 

 fermenting room holds forty fermenting tanks, five feet deep 

 by nine feet across, capacity 2000 gallons each. There are 

 ninety-six storage tanks, eight feet high by six feet across; 

 capacity, each 3000 gallons. 



No provision is yet made for permanent storage and matur- 

 ing wine for quality, and it may be that delicate wines, 

 which it is desired to mature, will be carried in some ware- 

 house located on San Francisco Bay, at a point suitable for 

 shipping and for maturing wines. 



A duplicate of this wine house will be built, in extension 

 of the present one, next year, to accommodate that year's 

 increase of product, and similar additions will be made as 

 product increases. 



Conveniently adjacent to the wine house, in a building of 

 corrugated iron, is a brandy distillery, of Sanders &: Co.'s 

 most approved make, rated to produce, from sound wine, 

 804 gallons brandy each, in twenty-four hours, from sour wine, 

 574 gallons, from pomace, 251 gallons. Water tank houses 

 are attached to both wine houses and distillery, and water 

 pipes are carried through both buildings for use and 

 fire protection. 



The vineyard is most liberally planned and laid out. 

 Each block is marked with its variety at each corner, an ex- 

 terior avenue all around it twenty-four feet wide, and a simi- 

 lar one through the middle, parallel with the railroad, allow 

 four horse teams to be readily turned, when plowing, culti- 

 vating, &c. The vines are carefully staked with redwood 

 stakes, the whole track is very securely fenced with a rabbit- 

 proof fence. For convenience of working it is divided into 

 sections of 400 acres, each section having its foreman's 

 house, barn for work stock, &c. The working is centralized 

 at the headquarters house, near wine house, where reside the 

 superintendent and accountant with their families. The 



