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July August 1963 #152 WESTERN PACIFIC ~ilepoSls JULY AUGUST 1963 ilepoSls . B. Whitman re-elected president Volume XV, No.4 JULY-AUGUST, 1963 ' Mile post No. 152 Department of Public Rel.tion. WESTER N PACIFIC RAILROAD SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RY . TIDEWATER SOUTHERN RY. 526 Mission Street " .'" Sa n Fr. ncisco 5, C. liforn i. ." Lee "Flash " Sherwood, Editor ~. , ' Milepost No. 152: Sacramento Northern tracks cross W p IS m'o i" Hne about one­ hall' mile beyond at Sankey. IN THIS ISSUE Page Mixed Freight Crosses Feather River Bridge Near Oroville,.. , .. .. Front Cover F . B. Whitman Re-elected PresidenL ............................ ,....................................... 3 Premium Service for Special Shipment of P remium Wines............................. 4 New Board Member. ............ ..... ............................................ .. .. ....... 11 Van Dellen Elected Vice President .. ............................................................... 11 Personnel Changes ________ .. ___ .. _._ . ____ ... ___ ..... _.. _..... _..... _.. __.. _____ . ____ .. _. ___ 12 Freight Service Improved Between Stockton-Bieber. ........................ .. 13 Shipper-Gram Winners .................... ............................................................. ........... 14 What the Winners Think About Loss and Damage............ ................................. 16 T THE meeting of the board of direc­ Executive Vice President M. M. Dear Editor: ................ 18 A tors following the annual meeting Christy; Vice President and General Fred McMullin Retires.......... .. .. ..................................... 20 of the shareholders on June 26, F. B. Manager H. C. Munson; Vice Presi­ Retirement ..... .. ....................... ................. ............. ,................... ,..... .......... .. 21 Whitman was unanimously re-elected dent-Marketing W. C. Brunberg; Vice Mileposts in Gold...................... ................... ................. ... .. .. ..................... 22 as president to serve until the next an­ President and Treasurer R. E. Larson; Autumn Color Tou!'.. ... ....................................... ........................... ............................ 23 nual shareholders' meeting, Vice President and Comptroller L. J . Anita Hung Up Her Dancing Shoes ........................................................................ 24 The directors also re-elected the fol­ Gosney; Secretary Logan Paine; As­ Caboosing ............................................. ......... .......... .. 25 lowing officers to serve for the same sistant Secretary and Assistant Treas­ In Memoriam .......................... .. .............. .. 35 period, urer F. A . Tegeler. Railroad Lines .......... ...... .. ............... ..... .. .. ...... ....... .................... Back Cover J ULY-A UG US T,1 96 3 3 2 MI LEPOSTS interesting history which MILEPOSTS is vast rooms to house what Almaden pleased to relate to its readers. proudly boasts as the largest oak coop­ The Almaden Vineyards of today is erage in the world, tremendous cham­ a far cry from that established by pagne cellars, and bottling plant. Guadalupe creek in the rich valley and There has also been a change in the foothills of Los Gatos, just south of lush vineyards of fine varietal grapes San Jose in 1852 by Etienne Thee and planted by Thee and Lefranc more Charles Lefranc, two of 20,000 French­ than a century ago, which have given men who came to California seeking away to progress in the form of new their fortune. tract homes built on former Almaden Lefranc's original winery still stands property. In the stead of its acreage neal' the historic courtyard, planted around Almaden, the vineyards in the with olive and peppel' trees. One story hilly country of Paicines in San Benito rises above the ground, two are below. County, more than 100 miles south of Its walls are of adobe and brick. Not Almaden's San Francisco office head­ far away is another building of sand­ quarters, are claimed by Almaden to stone, in one of whose massive blocks rightfully be "the largest single plant­ is cut "1876-Ch. Lefranc- W. A. Mid­ ing of fine 'varietal' wine grapes in the dleton, Builder." Today it still houses world." "Here, the acreage has been some of the great oaken casks of Al­ planted to grapes selected for their maden's aging cellars. Newel' build­ small yield pel' acre, with quality rather ings have been added, however, since than tonnage the main consideration, a rehabilitation of the winery began and with the best possible premium immediately after its purchase in 1941 table wine as the major end in view," by Louis A. Benoist and his associates, states H. P eter Jurgens, executive vice president and general manager, who With one car in the background already loaded, the present owners. These improve­ District Sales Manager John C. Dullea (left) and ments include the huge aging vats, (Continued on Page 6) Premium service Sales Representative John P. Carroll inspect a carton of Almaden wines which was the first to for special shipmen t be loaded in another W P insulated cor. of premium wines fine wines is claimed by Almaden SPECIAL shipment of Almaden Vineyards, Inc., to be the largest sin­ A harvest crew works A the vast 2,200-acre Vineyards' premium wines left gle shipment of premium wines ever to Almaden vineyards at San Jose by Westel'll P acific in July be received by a retailer in Denver. Paicines j,n the rolling destined for Denver and some special The man behind the Western Pacific mountain slopes of attention upon its al'l'ival in the mile­ shipment was John Paul Canoll, sales the Gavilan range in San Benito County. high city. While television and local representative at San Jose and a 27- Almaden claims this press cameras focused on the event, year Western Pacific veteran. Almaden to be the largest Denver's Mayor Tom Currigan opened Vineyards, Inc., is one of J ohnny's key single planting of the first of the Western Pacific cars accounts, and his close and friendly varietal grapes of any vineyard in the world. and ReuleI' Lewin Co., the consignee, association with the wine producers was on hand to take delivery for has made the account a valuable one Hoffman Liquor Stores. The 60 tons of for our railroad. cased bottles of Santa Clara County's Almaden and win making has an 4 MILEP OSTS JULY-AUGUST, 1963 5 Premium service . .. (Continued from Page 5) directs Almaden's nation-wide mar­ keting and distribution. Jurgens also told M ILEPOSTS that the new Paicines vineyards are now pro­ ducing more vin rose than the whole French district of Tavel, and from the identical Grenache grape; nearly as Th ese huge casks are much true Pinot Chardonnay as all t he used in the wine aging Grand Cru vineyards of Chablis put process, an important phase in the production together (and in Chablis, France, no of quality wines. other grape may be grown ); more Cabernet Sauvignon than any Bor­ deaux chateau; twice as much Pinot Noir as Chambertin does, and far more J ohannisberg Riesling than Schloss J ohannisberg. Grape varieties are quite as impor­ tant as soil and climate in the long (Continued on Page 8) Sunny days, cool nights produce quality grapes A gondola of harvested grapes is dumped into a conveyor which car­ Almaden Sherry is ries th em to crusher. aged in this flor yeast room, a sherry bodega the size of a football field . 6 Labels are applied A portion of both front and back the more as the bottles pass than two million through this modern bottles in the cham­ labeling machine. pagne cellors where secondary fermentation takes place. Premium service ... The country, a dozen miles south of Hollister, is r olling, higher in altitude (Continued from Page 6) than it looks, from 600 to 1200 feet run. The Paicines plantings have been above sea level, with the Gavilan sum­ most car efully planned and compared mits nearly 2,000 feet high er. It h as the to most California vineyard acreages, typical climate of the North Coast their extent is enormous, but they California counties-dry, sunny days are intended to supplement, and only throughout the growing season, noon­ gradually and partially replace, wh at time temperatures rarely over 85 de­ Almaden has already planted and grees, partly on account of the altitude, mostly in production elsewhere, either cool fresh evenings, with the minimum as part of its own p roperties or under (Continued on Page 10) long-term lease. The Paicines operation also includes a grape crushing plant, with a b attery Riddling racks in th e of modern Willmes presses imported champagne cellars where each bottle from Germany, and a distillery. receives about one .. Paicines is about 20 miles as the quarter turn on a crow flies east of Monterey Bay. P er­ precise time schedule. haps one should say "as the hawk flies," for the high range of hills be­ tween Paicines and the P acific is known as the Gavilan Range, ann gavilan, in Spanish, means "hawk." When sherry is taken from the bottom casks in the blending solera for bottling, those casks are rolled from casks in middle row. Almaden Sherry is at least six years old when bottled. 8 J ULY-AUGUST, 1963 9 New board lnelnber Hart Isaacs, president of Isaacs business interests. H e has had 20 Brothers Co., private investments, years of service on the board of Ce­ Beverly Hills, Calif., was elected to dars of Lebanon Hospital, during Western Pacific's board of directors at which time h e has served three years the annual share­ as president, and another three as holders' meeting on treasurer. H e is executive vice presi­ June 26. He suc­ dent
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