Of late raisin grapes have been planted in considerable quantities in
Salt river valley and in Gila river valley in Arizona, but the outcome
of the venture is yet unknown, at least to us. The growers of Arizona
claim for their localities the advantage of great earliness, as the
grapes ripen there in July, or a month earlier than in California.
In the Argentine Republic in South America it is said that the Spanish
immigrants have planted many raisin grapes during the last few years. In
Australia we are also informed that dipped raisins, and perhaps even
sun-dried ones, have been produced, but even there the result is unknown
to us. So far these raisins have cut no figure in the general market,
but it is not improbable that many localities in those vast countries
will be found where Muscat grapes can be profitably grown and cured.