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statistics of the enterprise of the vineyardists of that 

 State are unparalleled in the history of the grape. In 

 1861, we have an account, published in "The Horticultu- 

 rist," of the vineyard of William Wolfskill, containing 

 fifty-five acres, and ninety thousand vines in bearing, 

 yielding seven hundred thousand pounds of grapes an- 

 nually, and producing fifty thousand gallons of wine. In 

 "The United-States Agricultural Report" for 1862, the 

 estimated number of vines in California in 1861 is placed 

 at 10,592,688, of which Los Angeles County had 2,570,000, 

 and Sonoma 1,701,661. Subsequent to this time, the num- 

 ber has vastly increased. Mr. Speaker Colfax reports, that, 

 during his travels in this State in the summer of 1865, he 

 found one vineyard which alone had upwards of a million 

 of vines. With such rapid increase, the mind staggers in 

 making estimates for the future. 



