SEMI-TROPIC (’ ILIFORNIA. 
SEMI-TROPIC 
CALIFORNIA, 
— AN — 
ILLUSTRATED KOKTHLY. 
IffV’teil tO A'jrwuUurt, IlvrtimU’irr. nitd Mr Drr. I. 
ojnuent of Southern Culifiiroiti. 
Term* : HI..ill per A it mint. In Aitrlnrr, 
Omci, Room* ‘J a ID. Baker Block. 
Aildnni, - - OKO, KITE. I.n» Aiur.’l« , », Pal. 
GKORGE RICK, Kiutor and Pboi 
OFFICIAL PAPEB 
Motif hern t all/nrnla Hurt irnlfnml fh.r‘ 
OFFICE, ROOM No. 0. BAKKH BLOCK 
J De Bartii Huduu .Pnaldent. 
H. If. W. Best .Vice President. 
E. T Si’ftNOE..Trciunrcr. 
Geo. Hick .Secretary 
iHrector*. 
J, F. Crank, A- B. Clark, 
J. FI Shields, II If W Best, 
C. E. Thom, J. |)e Barth Shoku 
T C. Sr,VK«AR, B. 
t' the Mr in I - Tropir. 
• >np Ill'lli. 
—Kanin Harl.nr-t. 
.-. onuiur. 
.IVIiiIuidii. 
.. I /.*• AnRWri. 
..\.iuli»-lt.». 
.. “m-fuiiiml., 
. I‘ii*Aif<Mia. 
...... I'liiHitvim. 
Runln Rarbiim. 
.Mad Blnf.i 
Mr*. >' I'. Wlrtlou. . 
A. R. Clark. 
<i«-n. .1. H. Mhi.-LN ... 
W, T. A *rinilo0. 
<>ov. .1. a. Iiownry. 
W. RlU.irn... 
Owimo lilrlt 
J»r. ii. U. • •anger.. 
A mi In-1 Foot* . 
Bn wood Coonur . 
Mr*. Flora Klmli-ill 
GKAFtt-iiRovri xu Mini wuim making ai <■ to 
be, if not already, the groat Industrie ■« nf 
Southern California. Tho grape is a unlive 
of nur soil, and flourishes in luxuriant 
growth and luscious fruit. Our viimyardi 
produce, ordinarily, twice ,u much a* the 
vineyards of any other grapo districts in 
the world. Why, wo will not discus* here, 
but such are the facts. 
Our grape crop never fail* a* it often 
does in other oountriu*. Wc have no vine 
pests or diseaaea common to othor parts of 
tlm world, or such a* arc infesting the vine¬ 
yards in Kcrlhern t,’alifnrnia. 
Growing the vine is easy and plnasant 
work here oompaiwd with thu work in the 
Kast or Europe, where they are rtijuired to 
train, stake, and tie up their vinos every 
year, at great cukt and labor; horn the 
stalk stands alone. 
The equability and warmth of the cli¬ 
mate, doing away with artificial btiai ren- 
ders it easy to make wine by fermentation. 
All the varieties that arc grown in any 
country can be grown with profit in this. 
Our lands are cheap, ranging from ten to; Tm -'fans Vitk i i Ttn \i. Cnwivi 
one hundred dollars per acre, on which the ! w ‘lh appropriatirm of only eon- 
grape crop will pay for (he lands at the end tr ;‘7. ,l> ll;r " s '"’ 1 ’« ; f * !l ' v- . ,, 
ct , , ! which were intrusted with the spending of 
of four years from planting. , )U f, hc 1Tlol „ v , rr| .. m J, 
Los Angeles county haa S.713 »* r. s m j to,. V o»r\ work and a th-uderable Iralance 
v ineyards, owned by about three hundred , »t ill m the treasury. TI • - < I ■ ■ of the 
owners, taking Mr. I.. ,f. I, ‘use's estimate of i "‘' r ' ’*’’ ' " 'id- red tn • by i* ■ ■ 1 ■- 
11.8 win, riroiluot of til, 8 om„,, Mr I '""7 . b- «<iai,lo.l In .dr.lUn »•". 
, - „ , , ; rents, and the gcnllrmvn who haw- wrved 
Ar,.:..i IlHiasthy- eetmiaiert pni-o., a* we , „„ Comm.-nmer* . .|,-rr* 
find them in the Yiticultural Coinmissiim-1 grainmlc of tl..- grape■- »•.,( tie 
era' Report, we find the value of the grape : public in general on i I’a ifie f. *•■». The 
crop hr be as follows: } estimate submitted for R ■■ maintens.,..- 
land furthering the Work of the Comr>.i«M'.ij 
■■I.HMO.OW) giillona dry wines, trf -!V h-lflO.OOn /, ,. 
««,««» K>tl l.m- mv lei wines, <« . . JkS.iss, 1 ‘" r "L > * ' tr '* s, "‘ * » rr y 
.KW,UtW gals. Drsinlv (In tiOudt,... f,| Pi mm ■! emo-i ienng it.r amount ■•! work «',d il..- 
Fttrnihiiu ami tal.lu . . Hl>xm)graat good it will sc -mplish. Tha bill 
-I in trod.med bv «ur K^pn^wntstire, Mr. 
UM . ♦I.WO.OOOjOank, establish quanuttinw ... 
Of course, this i* for the grapes made:| fell 1 '! vines, mittmg-v, en-., will a,-ompb-'. 
into marketable tkino; but it shows 
BCtual figures what, can be done in thii 
county in grape growing and wine-making. 
Mr. Bose states in hia report that thu 
grape growers of this county have netted 
400 per acre for the cri p of grapes sold tn 
the wine makers. We ask if any more 
lucrative or pleasant pursuit can bo fol¬ 
lowed than the growing of tho grape in 
Sourhcm California? 
We efltirniitu tho acreage of brandy 
grapes in this State at 80,000 acres; the 
wine yield at 10,000,000gallons; the brandy 
yield at 51X1,000 gallons; the raisin grapes 
and table* grapes at $¥30,000, giving, in 
cash value, about #.'5,500,000 to tho pro- 
Ineors of grapes for 1BS0. 
This is otilv a beginning of this great 
industry. This county will,in the next tan 
yean,, produce us much aa la now produced 
in the entire Slate. 
Our wiuea have been received in the 
wine markets of the world, tested and en¬ 
dorsed a-, first- ulus—. Our pure giapn 
brandies stand at thu huud of the list. 
Krom a financial point of view, it appear* 
that viticulture in thi* Slat", and .•spe. i.dly 
Huutliern Oalifuruin, U morn profit able tliun 
any of the usual form* of agriculture. 
ThK lM/0ariUTKfr Rai.'IFIC CoasI I’oi•«.. 
v Book, William Niles, I .via Angeles, 
On!*, publisher, price ftU cents, is a new and 
practical froatise mi the care nml manag. 
mem of domestic fowls, adapted e*i.c .ally 
• ■> the iiumlh of the I’aoine C'oast, and 
should ha in the hands of every person 
raising chickens. 
what we hare long ad v.mated, and 
gukrauta* to Southern California that we 
will never be visited by that drea<J vine 
peat, the phylloxera. The first annual re¬ 
port of the Commission is the moat valuable 
public document we hare had the pleasure 
of reading, and we only regret the limited 
number for distribution; the report would 
be an invaluable help in the hands of erx-ry 
grape -grower. 
To* San Francisco M . hint, in speak¬ 
ing of the member* of the i it.culturai 
corn in iasiou, says: Mr. L. J. Bose live* 
on his magnificent property near San 
Gabriel, in Los Angeles enmity. iV>» 
SMfees tbc largest vineyard in tlm f’uited 
Stat. haing some aerea hi extent 
-Mr, Rose has done uiueb for variou* 
bram hesi of agriculture, and for years 
haa been alike known for hi* fine race of 
liortM for hi* splendid oranges, |»»*e**ing 
liny of the largest orchard* in the State, 
aud fo* his good wines and bran.hr*. Me 
Irtmmeutly . practical man, publfo spir¬ 
ited, i|Uiot, unobirii*ive, very slnuig in pur- 
pus- . with excellent admirxal'ativ* tbiliues, 
RDa ha» a thorough knowledge of the bus¬ 
iness of raising grapes and the manufac- 
IHH> of wipe; a knowlr-lgt- prautioallv a*- 
tlUlri-d by over twenty year*’ experimen¬ 
ting Mo .‘an use the pen, too, wimn re- 
i|Utvi'.l, a* shown by some three ex. client 
letter * reeenlly publish. .1 on Vltn oUnral 
mat)' is in his section of the country, and 
which have lieen since 
ed. Mr. Itnse ts now 
hmi*e uf Stem A H 
btnir.es* ■* in the Kasl 
* reprint 
tha wine 
prim ipal 
(,'ai iKoit.vi* Ibme* ur (lower* of any 
description excel any others in the Coited 
fttatae. Why, then, send E*.«i for a ... 
when a superior article, acclimated and «i | numb-r 
as low a price, can be had nearer lion,, r I. , . 
VV. A. T. .Stratton'*, 1 ‘ataluma (Cal l cat - 
Hh-gue can be had free, ami in ii«,,-.,. i b-en snuw Ikmir 
( d-te lilt of the ohoiceel of every thing for ! her . and cvm i 
the lawn or garden. 
TliR attention of our reader* is d.rac 
to tin- advertisement of Hath A I'indip 
ano'her column. These gcntleraru 
acting » agent* for the salv uf a har 
win. h we art* mviiiiMvl ha* ito »*»per 
,\ sample may be «o*n at the Pan. 
. .luring the Citru* Fair 
lev! 
paps 
7 for illustrattor.s that have 
1 been *oo« bound Wttnma New York and 
fo r . and even now wc hare to go to |MV*a 
J without the portrait of Mr. 
J. Ifo 
