Show A IA LAKE KB OP WINF WINE me maser Serro voir lr constructed in it recently took two power powerful fuk steam a week to 1111 the th largest elargest wine reservoir in the world properly Prop orly speaking says the new york herald it is a lake a lake of bf red wine feet long 34 feet wide and 24 feet deep of course coarse it is in california that state of big thino things that this wonder is to be seen down at astl asti by the russian river valley and the lake itself is the blending of the juices of grapes from a thousand vines As a system of blending wine it is in this respect as much a wonder as in point ot of quantity and place of keeping it is another proof also that necessity is the mother of invention ven tion for if it had bad not been that the colonists could find no way to dispose of their wine in a profitable manner owing to its abundance it Is probable the lake would never have been created and another wonder thus lost to the t he world the tun of heidelberg which the last it generation and even some oj 0 the present learned to think of with wonder is but a child beside a full gro man when compared to this california creation one could go boating in this lake very comfortably although it would be but a short ride A steam launch would find room enough to steam back and forth and possibly turn around this is how the tank was really built first an excavation was made in the rocky hillside next a wall of concrete two feet in thickness was put in the floor and sides then came the laying and glazing of the cement this was not all had the lake been left open at the top impurities must have found their way into it not to mention the deluge that comes in what california knows as the rainy season all around the sides big steel girders were put in place and on these rests the sectional cover of the lake this is so constructed that not a ray my of light can penetrate into this vast quantity of wine and it mellows and ripens just as it it were in the most deep down vault that can be found anywhere |