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cial interests of tho world. Yet we all feel that there is something wanting — a demand to he sup- 

 plied, in order to give to this great industrial pursuit, both at home and abroad, that character 

 of reality, of permanence, and stability which its real merits deserve. The State Board of Agri- 

 culture, desiring to supply, in part, this desideratum, are making an effort to collect together speci- 

 mens from all parts of the coast, and build up at their rooms a Cabinet of Minerals worthy of 

 the richest mineral district on the globe, and which shall be to the capitalist and to the laborer a 

 tangible advertisement, and a real sample of our unequalled mineral wealth, and of the rare 

 opportunities of permaneut and profitable investment, and certain and bountiful reward of labor. 



You will see at once that this is an undertaking in which every industrial pursuit, and every 

 individual resident on this coast is interested, and hence, with a confidence that you will cheerfully 

 respond, we call on you and invite you to contribute to the success of the enterprise by forward- 

 ing to the undersigned, in time for the ensuing State Fair, September twentj'-fifth, such specimens 

 from your mines, or from any mines in your locality, as will best illustrate the character of such 

 mines. 



Please forward, with such specimens, a statement of the location, extent, probable or positive 

 yield, and any other important facts connected therewith ; also the name of the individual or com- 

 pany owning the same, and whether donated to the society, or contributed for exhibition at the 

 Fair only. When received they shall be neatly labelled with the name of the individual or com- 

 pany donating or contributing the same and other facts forwarded, and carefully preserved for. the 

 examination of the curious, the scientific, or speculative, now and hereafter. 



All specimens may be forwarded through Wells, Fargo & Company, or other express companies, 

 from any portion of this coast, as arrangements have been made with them, and the different 

 stage companies, and the Steam Navigation Company, for their conveyance free of cost. 



Respectfully, your obedient servant, 



I. N. HOAG, Secretary. 



ENTRY OP GOLD AND SILVER MINERALS. 



Hakendorn Mine, Silver Mountain, Calaveras County: 

 Specimens of silver ore. 



Isabell Mine, Garden Valley, El Dorado County : 



Ledge four feet wide on surface, and ten feet wide at a depth of thirty 

 feet; ledge crop,s out one thousand two hundred feet in length. 

 Specimens contributed by P. G. Isabell. 



Peach Bottom Ledge, San Paz : 



Assays six hundred dollars in silver to the ton. 

 Specimens contributed by James W. Cassenberry. 



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Mammoth Ledge, Shasta County : 



Specimens contributed by B. M. Estere. 



Empire Mine, near Grass Valley, Nevada County : 



Ore pays, in gold, from twenty dollars to eighty dollars to the ton, 

 at depths from twenty-five to four hundred feet. 



Sacramento Company, Limekiln District, Nevada County — Miner Ledge : 

 Specimens of gold rock fifteen feet fronr surface. 



Grass Valley Township, Nevada County : 

 Croppings from gold quartz. 



Star Ledge, near Illinoistown, Placer County: 

 Specimen of gold bearing quartz. 



North Star Ledge, Illinoistown, Placer County: 

 Specimens of gold bearing quartz. 



Neptune Company, Squaw Valley, near Lake Tahoe : 

 Specimens of silver rock. 



New York Ledge and Company, Slate Eange, Tulare County : 



Twenty-seven pounds rock assays twenty-eight grains of gold and 



silver. 

 Specimens donated by E. D. Wheatly. 



