| | | | Viau, S. P. |Malaga. | | | ---------------+---------+--------------+--------------+-------------- LITERATURE. The literature of the raisin industry is a very scant one, and as far as I have been able to ascertain not a single work especially devoted to this industry has appeared in any language. The various cyclopedias contain articles on raisins, but they are all more or less confused and unreliable, and of no great use to any one who wishes only reliable information, and who must depend upon the same for practical purposes. As regards California, much information has been given about raisin growing and curing in almost every newspaper published in the State. To mention them all would be to enumerate all the papers of the Pacific Coast. I can here refer only to a few of the principal ones, where the student who has time and inclination to follow up the subject may find material for a more detailed history of the raisin industry than the one I have written. First among these papers I must mention the _Pacific Rural Press_, edited by that distinguished horticulturist, Professor E. J. Wickson, and published by Messrs. Dewey & Co. of San Francisco. In the files of this weekly, from 1873 to the present time, 1890, may be found scattered many interesting articles referring to our subject. A paper contemporaneous with it was the San Francisco _Merchant_, which contained many interesting articles on raisins and raisin grapes, especially during the period from 1881 to 1887. In the issues of the _Press and Horticulturist_ of Riverside, San Bernardino county, California, we find during a series of years occasional notes and articles referring to the raisin industry of that section of the country. As regards the Santa Ana and Orange county district, the Anaheim _Gazette_ will prove the most reliable guide, as recording the rise and decline, and, as we believe, also the revival, of the raisin industry of that section. The Yolo _Democrat_ and the Woodland _Mail_ published at Woodland, Yolo county, have devoted much space to the raisin industry of that section. In Fresno county the Fresno _Republican_, between the years 1882 and 1887, contained weekly a separate department for viticulture and horticulture edited by the author of this book, and that paper has ever afterwards devoted much space to recording the progress of the raisin industry of the country. The Fresno _Expositor_, the oldest paper in Fresno county, has contained much information about raisin grapes and vineyards since 1873, when the first raisin-vines were planted in the county. During the period from 1888 to 1890, this paper contained almost daily editorials upon the raisin industry, mostly contributed by this author.