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Show WM DEVELOPS Native Product Gradually Taking the Place of Im-; ported Product. The war in Europe, bv paralyzing the oversea trade and putting a stop to the importations of wiues, has been the cause of Americans opening their eyes to the home-made product. And while this condition is true of the country coun-try generally, Salt Lake, too, has shown an increase in the consumption of native na-tive wines, according to the big wholesalers whole-salers of this citv. It is estimated by 'one man that there is approximately 100 carloads of port, sherry and other wines shipped into Salt Lake every year from various sections, much of it coming from California. This wine is worth approximately $1000 a ear. In addition there is brought to Salt Lake about $20,000 worth of champagne, or which about 75 per cent is the California Cali-fornia product. It is claimed by many wine experts that there is no real difference between the native champagnes and those that are imported. One man yesterday said that he did not believe that the average av-erage expert, if he had his eyes blindfolded blind-folded and had placed before him a good grade of native wine and an average av-erage grade of the imported product, would be able to tell one from the other bv the sense of taste. In order to test the amount of wines consumed, statistics statis-tics were gathered recently by a New York paper on the New Year 's celebration cele-bration in New York City. One authority au-thority estimated that of approximately approximate-ly 125,000 bottles of wine opened in the metropolis on New Year's eve at least 75,000 contained the native product. |