REPORT. 



Placerville, December 1, 1880. 



To the honorable the State Board of Agriculture: 



The El Dorado District Agricultural Association, No. 8, compris- 

 ing the Counties of El Dorado, Placer, Amador, Nevada, Alpine, and 

 Mono, submit the following as their report to j'ou for the year 1880, 

 showing all the transactions of said Association for that year. 



C. H. WEATHERWAX, Secretary. 



OPENING ADDRESS, 



Delivered by George G. Blanchard, President. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : For the tenth time we are assembled as 

 stockholders of a great body corporate, as members and patrons of a 

 society whose objects are to widen and deepen the channels of indus- 

 try, to ennoble labor, to strengthen enterprise, and encourage self 

 support. In opening this Fair, I could point to the exhibits before 

 and around me as conclusive proof that since the first exhibition 

 under the auspices of our organization the channels of industry have 

 been both widened and deepened, labor has been ennobled, enter- 

 prise has been strengthened, and self-support encouraged. It is with 

 no ordinary emotions of pride that I appear before you the seventh 

 time to open your Fair, as President of the Society. Most flattering 

 have been your bestowals of official favor upon me in this regard. 

 I appreciate the honor, and am grateful beyond expression for it. 

 Since our last meeting we have taken on territory, until our Society 

 now comprises the Counties of El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Amador, 

 Mono, and Alpine, with El Dorado as its head center. From a private 

 corporation we have grown to a State institution, under State con- 

 trol. With this increase of territory, importance, and power, we may 

 hope to accomplish much in developing the resources of our district. 

 The counties comprising our Society have more varied industries 

 than any other district in the State, and have a wealth of resources 

 found nowhere else. Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, and Amador, pro- 

 duce more gold than the balance of the State combined, and has 



