REPORT. 



Rooms of the Golden Gate Agricultural and 

 Mechanical Fair Association, 



Oakland, December 1, 1880. 



To the honorable the State Board of Agriculture: 



The Directors of the Golden Gate Agricultural and Mechanical 

 Fair Association respectfully submit this, their report of the transac- 

 tions of said Association, for the year ending this date. 



L. WALKER, 



Secretary. 



OPENING ADDRESS, 



Delivered by E. H. Pardee, President, at the Pavilion, September 14, 1880. 



Members of the Golden Gate Agricultural and Mechanical District Fair 

 Association : 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I feel more than usually honored this 

 evening in having the privilege and opportunity of appearing before 

 the friends of this society for the third time, by the unanimous 

 response and solicitation of our very able Board of Directors. Believ- 

 ing it to be a proper place of acknowledgment, I thank them for the 

 continued confidence they have reposed in me. Since I last addressed 

 the friends of this society, another year of days, weeks, and months 

 have passed the milestone of time, and another year's stewardship of 

 the society is looked for through their presiding officer, and with 

 words of cheer and salutations, I congratulate the Board of Directors, 

 I congratulate the friends of the society, I congratulate the people of 

 Oakland, I congratulate the people of the district, and, lastly, I con- 

 gratulate the people of the whole State, upon the auspicious future 

 that will be brought into requisition by the operation of the new 

 agricultural law, which divides the State into eleven agricultural 

 and mechanical districts. It will do away with the universal ani- 

 mosity that has heretofore existed among District and County Fairs. 

 It will cause to be held, annually a district convention, whereby an 



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