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TRANSACTIONS OP THE 



SIXTH DAY. 



[From Daily Record-Union of Monday, September 27th.] 



The State Fair closed about eleven o'clock Saturday night with 

 the closing of the Pavilion. The week was a successful one; the 

 people came doubtful, but went away satisfied, and the unanimous 

 verdict is that the State Fair was in all respects a success worthy 

 of California. More than this they could not say, for California is 

 worthy of an exhibition each year in her name of the highest charac- 

 ter possible to be attained here. 



AT THE PAVILION. 



The interest manifested by visitors at the Pavilion continued to 

 the last moment of the Fair. The attendance was exceedingly good. 

 The music was good, and was frequently encored by the audience. 

 During the evening O. P. Dodge, the Assistant Superintendent at the 

 Pavilion, was called into the office of the Secretary of the society, 

 and presented by the exhibitors with a very handsomely written 

 testimonial of their appreciation of his tireless efforts to assist them 

 in every way possible, in exhibiting their goods, etc. The receipts 

 of the society for eighteen hundred and eighty were gratifyingly 

 large, as the following table will show: 



First day ._ 

 Second day 

 Third day _ 

 Fourth day 

 Fifth day- 

 Sixth day _ 



Totals. -_ 



$1,657 50 

 1,331 00 

 1,576 00 

 1,771 00 

 3,822 25 

 1,064 70 



$11,222 45 



$1,743 50 

 762 00 

 650 00 

 845 00 

 538 00 

 326 00 



$4,864 50 



£2,445 75 

 1,611 00 

 3,144 45 

 2,431 50 

 1,786 

 2,137 



00 

 20 



$13,555 90 



$2,654 00 



1,165 50 



1,234 00 



808 50 



622 75 



375 85 



$7,860 00 



The sum total for eighteen hundred and seventy-nine was sixteen 

 thousand and eighty-six dollars and ninety-five cents; for eighteen 

 hundred and eighty, twenty-one thousand four hundred and sixteen 

 dollars and fifty cents. The total excess, therefore, for eighteen hun- 

 dred and eighty over eighteen hundred and seventy-nine was five 

 thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents. 



At eight o'clock Saturday evening Thomas Guinean, the inventor 

 of Guinean's Universal Refrigerator, opened the one on exhibition 

 in the lower hall, and took therefrom beef, poultry, mutton, etc., 

 placed therein six days before, and when the meats were already two 

 days old. They were found to be sweet, without taint, and perfectly 

 preserved, and on thrusting one's head into the refrigerator chamber 

 no odor of decomposition was noticeable, and the interior was found 

 to be as dry as a bone, not the slightest moisture being found on the 

 walls of the receptacle. It proved the refrigerator to be all that its 

 inventor claims for it. 



