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Show FEARS GROUNDLESS. Prohibition has not injured the grape growing and wine making industry of California. According to a report made by Internal Kevcnue Collector Carter the manufacturers have made a discovery discov-ery by which they will be able to make wine complying with the requirements of the government. The alcoholic content con-tent wrill be reduced to one-half of one per cent. The report goes on to say that "the new process is said to leave the wine sweet and palatable and capable capa-ble of beiug kept an indeterminate time, while the alcohol which remained in the content under the old process is removed and may be utilized as a byproduct. by-product. Many of the large wineries are gathering and crushing grapes as usual. Many wino grapes are being shipped east instead of being a drug on the market and left, to rot in the fields, as was prophesied freely. Wine grapes now aro bringing $50 a ton, compared with $30 to $43 a ton last year. The vineyards apparently are celebrating the advent of prohibition, as the grape crop is a record breaker." If this report is correct there will be no further complaints upon the part of the grape growers and the wine makers mak-ers will also subside if they are able to find a market for their nonintoxi-cating nonintoxi-cating product regarding which there does not seem to be much doubt. Prohibition Prohi-bition was expected to kill the wine making industry. The expectations havo not been realized and the men owning vineyards and wino presses are' correspondingly happy. |