62 PROCEEDINGS OF TWENTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



AFTEEI^OO]^ SESSIOll^-SEOOI^D DAY. 



Wednesday, December 4, 1901. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. I will announce the following committee 

 to prepare a resolution to President Roosevelt indorsing his message so 

 far as it concerns the fruit interests of California: 



First, the favorable attitude regarding the interoceanic canal; 



Second, the great interest manifested in the irrigation problem of the 

 great West, with forest preservation; 



Third, the consular service in the interest of the producers; 



Fourth, the Pacific cable. 



On that committee I will appoint F. M. Righter, Hon. William John- 

 ston, and N. W. Motheral. 



THE OALIFOENIA WINE INDUSTEY, ITS FUTURE, ETC. 



By W. J. HOTCHKISS, of Healdsburg. 



It is not my purpose in this article upon the future of the wine 

 industry of the State to go back and give a history of the rise of the 

 viticultural industry. What I desire to draw attention to is the line 

 along which I believe the cultivation of the vine and the - production of 

 wine can be carried out for the best interests of the State. 



An industry is of profit to the State to the extent to which it gives 

 remunerative employment to the people and profitable returns for the 

 capital invested. I believe that the wine industry of California should 

 be directed to the extent of large productions and larger distribution 

 rather than to the production of small gallonage of fine wines at prices 

 which would forbid their use except among people of independent means. 



As fine and as good wines can be and are produced in California as 

 anywhere in the world, whenever we take the time and expense to do 

 it, and it is as well that a certain number, or a small percentage, of the 

 wine-makers forward their efforts in this direction. But these fine and 

 high-priced wines only represent a small percentage of consumption — 

 we would say, in a rough way, five to ten per cent; therefore, the efforts 

 in the production of wine should be directed along the line of the pro- 

 duction of the ninety to ninety-five per cent which goes to make up the 

 bulk of the wine produced. 



It would seem a pity to divest the wine and the vine of the romantic 

 and poetic ideas which have from time immemorial been associated 



