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member that they have not failed to speak a good word for 

 our occupation, and distributed all the knowledge they could 

 collect, to our readers. 



Why, with all these advantages, should we not reach, at 

 the beginning of the new century, a production of seventy-five 

 million gallons, instead of sixteen million now, and be able 

 to find a ready market for them, while our raisins and table 

 grapes have driven those of other nations from our markets 

 on this continent. They belong to us by right, as soon as 

 we can furnish as good a product, and we ought to occupy 

 them. That we will do so eventually, is my firm belief; I 

 hope that the sun of 1900 may rise on the most prosperous 

 wineland the world ever saw, on the most prosperous, happy 

 and sober commonwealth on the shores of the Pacific, the 

 Golden State of California, richer in her golden wine and 

 fruits than its mines ever made it. 



Reader, my task is ended. If this little volume, which 

 has cost the author many an anxious hour and thought by day 

 and night, should help to bring about this glorious result, and 

 you should think as kindly of him, as he does of all his vit- 

 icultural brethren, he is nobly paid, though he may then rest 

 in California's soil, removed from all earthly labors. But as 

 long as life is spared him, it will be devoted to our noble in- 

 dustry, with a love that never falters or fails. 



