History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . vineyard, adding fortymore as soon as he was able. The first trees he set on the place he bought ata nursery located on the corner of Mariposa and Kay Streets, the presentsite of Hollands grocery store. In 1900 he sold the eighty acres on accountof his poor health, and for a year went back to San Francisco. At the endof the twelve months, however, he concluded that there was no better place,at l
History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . vineyard, adding fortymore as soon as he was able. The first trees he set on the place he bought ata nursery located on the corner of Mariposa and Kay Streets, the presentsite of Hollands grocery store. In 1900 he sold the eighty acres on accountof his poor health, and for a year went back to San Francisco. At the endof the twelve months, however, he concluded that there was no better place,at least not for him, than Fresno, and to this city he came again, this timedetermined to make it his home. He built a place at R Street and Fresno, onfour lots, and at the same time secured sixty acres of land in the ColonialHelm tract, two miles west of Clovis. As rapidly as he could, he made everyneeded improvement, building a residence and setting out vines and trees, andhas since set and reset them, until now he has ten acres of wine grapes, withthe balance devoted to muscatels, a few malagas, and about seven acres inalfalfa. His ranch is half irrigated from the Gould Ditch, and half from the. HISTORY OF FRESNO COUNTY 1085 Enterprise Ditch. His residence and buildings are equipped with electriclights, and he has installed a pumping plant and has an electric motor towork his pump. Mr. Ariey has had much experience in grape-growing, but not all hisrecollections as a ranchman and a viticulturist are of the most pleasant has seen the time when he has sold raisins for one and a half cents apound, and has been glad to get even that price for what he had; and he hasgone through some very hard times, when he found it necessary to work out-side to pay the bills and keep up his vineyard. He has been in all the dif-ferent raisin associations as both a member and a stockholder; and now be-longs to the California Associated Raisin Company. In May, 1885, Mr. Ariey was married in San
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