==============================+=======+=======+=======+=======+======= | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. ------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- Fresno |107,000|225,000|350,000|440,000|475,000 Riverside and San Bernardino |129,000|195,000|190,000|270,000|265,000 Orange County and Los Angeles}|139,000|180,000| 85,000| 42,000| 8,000 County }| | | | | Woodland and Davisville | 67,000| 75,000|125,000 115,000|120,000 San Diego | 10,000| 25,000| 20,000| 40,000| 75,000 Tulare | 6,000| 8,000| 10,000| 11,000| 15,000 Kern | -- | -- | -- | -- | 4,000 Scattering | 12,000| 15,000| 20,000| 25,000| 25,000 +-------+-------+-------+-------+------- |470,000|723,000|800,000|943,000|987,000 ------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- _Number of Acres in Raisin Grapes in California in 1890:_ Fresno district 30,000 acres. Balance of San Joaquin valley 10,000 “ San Bernardino district 5,000 “ San Diego and El Cajon 6,000 “ Yolo and Solano 8,000 “ Balance of the State 7,000 “ ------ 66,000 “ This includes grapes in bearing, as well as vines lately set out. _California and Malaga Prices, Importations, etc., from 1871 to 1889:_ The following statistics of prices of California and Malaga raisins have been mostly compiled from various sources, such as the Fresno _Expositor_, the San Francisco _Journal of Commerce_, the _Fruit Grower_, etc. These statistics and notes will give a fair idea of the progress made by the raisin industry in this State since 1873, the year when our raisins first cut any conspicuous figure in the market of this continent. The first struggle of the raisin-producers of this Coast was directed against the importers of Malaga raisins, and against the prejudice of our own consumers. It took about ten years to supersede the Malaga product by our own. The following table gives the importation of Malaga raisins to this State from 1871 to 1884: Twenty- pound boxes. 1871 16,534 1872 36,153 1873 27,692 1874 35,447 1875 22,228 1876 29,187 1877 13,357 1878 14,824 1879 10,884 1880 3,988 1881 1,719 1882 1,218 1883 633 1884 1,437 1885 800 1886 -- 1887 -- 1888 -- 1889 --