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Placing confidence in j^our justice in your giving our claim j^our care- 

 ful consideration, we are, 



Yours, very respectfully, 



J. B. SHEEBUEN & CO. 



FIFTH DEPARTMENT. 



Sacramento, September 21st, 1874. 

 To the honorable Committee on Gold Medals: 



Gentlemen: The exhibition of beet sugar manufactured by the Capi- 

 tal Sugar Eefinery, and exhibited in the Fifth Department, seventh class, 

 during the State Fair of eighteen hundred and Beventy-four, we claim 

 to be the most meritorious exhibition, and desire to receive for the same 

 the gold medal of that department on. the following grounds: We claim, 

 firstly, ours to be the most meritorious exhibition, on the grounds that 

 it is the production of an industry which will shortly develop to such 

 an extent as to place California on an equal footing with foreign coun- 

 tries as to its exportations of sugars. Time will but lend additional 

 vigor to a now paying institution, and the agriculturists of the State 

 will thereby receive a new article for production, namel}*, the cultiva- 

 tion of sugar beets. Secondly, we claim the sugars exhibited by us to 

 be secondary to none in the world, and therefore a perfect article of 

 production. 



The sugar-making interests we prove to be one of the most important 

 of our home productions, and will, in the course of time, furnish labor 

 for thousands of men who depend entirely upon their handiwork for 

 subsistence. 



That this enterprise, which is as yet in its infancy on this coast, is, 

 therefore, fully deserving of your attention and encouragement, is 

 obvious. We therefore respectfully submit our claims for the gold 

 medal to your good judgment. 



Very respectfully, yours, etc., 



CAPITAL SUGAE EEFINEEY, 



Per A. J. Wetzlar, Secretary. 



To the officers of the State Agricultural Society: 



Gentlemen: I here submit to your kind consideration my claim to 

 the society's most distinguished gift — the gold medal — for the most 

 meritorious exhibition in the Fifth Department. In my exhibition is 



