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of which would be worthless except for occasional croppings of 

 wheat and sparse feeding of cattle, without the system of irrigation 



The cultivation area is now stated to have a capital value of 

 30,000,000 dollars, and had it been sold twenty years ago for 

 1,000,000 dollars that would have been considered a high price. 

 When once the vines commenced to bear in 1873, the return began 

 to come in, and has increased yearly; in that year 6,000 boxes of 

 raisins (20 lbs. each) were shipped ; in 1883 the yield was 140,000 

 boxes or 2,800,000 lbs. ; in 1890, 900,000 boxes or 18,000,000 lbs. 

 The land values run from fifty to one hundred dollars per acre, 

 that is land unimproved with water, improved and under ditch, 

 from one hundred to three hundred dollars per acre. I quote 

 two returns shewing the total areas and subdivisions and the yield 

 per acre for this district. The first gives the numbers of holdings 

 of from two to one hundred acres respectively, and the areas above 

 the latter quantity. The second return shows the results per 

 acre and the areas of the holdings, and as it will be seen, the best 

 returns are from the smaller holdings. 



No. of 

 holdings. 



Agregate 

 Acreage. 



Average acreage 

 per holding. 



Kemarks. 



473 



4,087 



8-46 



From 2 to 10 acres 



570 



9,068 



15-90 



„ 10 „ 20 „ 



207 



5,552 



26-82 



» 20 „ 30 „ 



156 



5,755 



36-90 



„ 30 „ 40 „ 



43 



2,072 



48-18 



„ 40 „ 50 „ 



44 



2,571 



58-43 



„ 50 „ 60 „ 



22 



1,429 



64-95 



„ 60 „ 70 „ 



55 



4,279 



77-8 



„ 70 „ 80 „ 



6 



510 



85 



„ 80 „ 90 „ 



10 



985 



98-5 



„ 90 „ 100 „ 



In addition to the 1,586 holdings given above, there are 77 

 embracing from 107 acres up to 800 acres, making a total in these 

 larger holdings of 15,407 acres, or an average of over 200 acres 

 each. The total area in the smaller holdings reaches 49,325 acres, 

 and gives an average holding of a little over thirty-one acres each. 



