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San Francisco, October 20th, 1874. 



To State Agricultural Society's Committee on Gold Medals: 



Gentlemen: The Sluthour pump we exhibited at the late State Fair 

 •we notice took the premium offered for the best mode of raising water 

 for irrigating purposes; for this we should express thanks. We have 

 now exhibited these pumps at three State Fairs, and believing that no 

 pump has been exhibited in that time possessing the merit these pumps 

 do in point of simplicity, durability, and ease of action, also, for the 

 volume of water for the power required, we feel there is a just pro- 

 priety in making application or petitioning your honorable committee 

 for a special gold medal; and we take pleasure in calling your attention 

 to the report of Judges at the Second International Industrial Exhibi- 

 tion of the Mechanics' Institute, held at Buffalo, New York, October 

 seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, on page ten of our 

 Circular, which we send you to-day; and we have taken the liberty to 

 mark some other matters, which may have some bearing in making your 

 decision. Looking for your favorable decision, 



"We are, gentlemen, most respectfully, yours, 



J. M. KEELEE & CO. 



Sacramento, September 25th, 1874. 



To the committee of the State Agricultural Society which awards the society's 

 gold medal: 



Gentlemen: I respectfully claim the society's gold medal for the 

 most meritorious exhibition in the Fourth Department. I give these 

 reasons, which I claim are complete: There are nine classes in the 

 department. They include hardware, pianos, furniture, stone and 

 other ware, minerals, etc. Of all these, my entry — the Paragon vapor 

 stove and burner — (lower hall) is the only California invention not 

 heretofore in the Fair and not heretofore competing. It is most meri- 

 torious of all in the department, because all the others are luxuries; 

 mine is a useful article, and I can establish it that it does and is all 

 it claims. I therefore make my claim. 



Eespectfull}', 



WM, FEIEL. 



Sacramento, September 19th, 1874. 

 To the honorable Committee on Gold Medals: 



Gentlemen: We have on exhibition a billiard cushion manufactured 

 by P. Liesenfeld & Co., known as the " Combination Steel Plate Cushion," 

 invented in San Francisco, California, and manufactured at same place, 



