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PHOTOGRAPHS AND PAINTINGS. 



Mrs. W. E. Brown, Sacramento: 

 Six pastel paintings. 

 Two portraits in oil. 



W. C. Felch, Sacramento: 

 Landscape in oil. 



P. Kennedy, Sacramento : 

 Two landscapes in oil. 



Mrs. George W. Chesley, Sacramento : 

 Three oil paintings. 



Miss Alice N. Cully, Sacramento : 

 One fusehia picture. 



Miss C. A. Templeton, Sacramento: 

 Pencil portrait. 



H. S. Beals, Sacramento : 



One photograph, retouched, life size. 

 Two frames card pictures. 

 One picture of deceased child. 



W. JDickerman, Sacramento : 

 Four photographs, life size. 

 Two photographs, colored. 

 Eighteen photographs, small size. 

 Five photographs, small size, colored. 

 One frame card pictures. 



Mrs. Mark Hopkins, Sacramento : 

 Six bouquets. 



D. De Bernarde : 



Collection of bouquets. 



GOLD AND SILVER MINING. 



There were entered for donation to the cabinet of the society, and for 

 exhibition, specimens of gold and silver bearing rock from two hundred 

 and .ninety-five mining claims, which numbered more than three thou- 

 sand samples of ores. The interest manifested in the department of 

 minerals became absorbing to a great many visitors at the Fair, and this 

 really was but a reflex of the public mind, because at no previous time 

 since the discovery of the placers at Coloma, have the great mass of our 

 people been so entirely absorbed in mining enterprises as at the present 

 moment. 



Fifteen j^ears since, California was a sparsely settled country, with its 

 few inhabitants dwelling near the sea coast, and engaged in the pursuit 

 of stock growing. At that time Oregon had a few settlements of west- 

 ern pioneers engaged in the fur trade, and as a subordinate occupation, a 



