136 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF AWARDS ON 



COUNTY EXHIBITS. 



To the Directors : 



Your committee on " County Exhibits," after a thorough and exhaustive 

 examination of the exhibitions made by Colusa, El Dorado, Humboldt, 

 Nevada, Placer, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Solano, Tehama, and Yuba and 

 Sutter Counties, beg to report that they have made the following awards 

 of the $2,000 appropriated for prizes for county exhibits: To San Joaquin 

 County, $500; to Sacramento County, $300; to Placer County, $250; to 

 Colusa County, $250; to Nevada County, $200; to Humboldt County, $150; 

 to El Dorado County, $150; to Yuba and Sutter Counties, $100; to Solano 

 County, $50; and to Tehama County, $50. In making these awards we 

 have taken into consideration the variety and quality of the articles 

 exhibited; the extent of the industries which the exhibits represent; their 

 importance in the future development of the State; and to some extent the 

 difficulties of making the exhibits from the remoteness of the county, and 

 the lack of direct communication by rail, etc. 



The members of your committee are all long residents of the State, and 

 have seen the growth of its various industries almost from the time of the 

 American occupation, but in this examination they have been surprised 

 and astonished at the extent and variety of the products exhibited by these 

 ten counties; the magnitude and importance of the industries which they 

 now represent, the rapid development during the past decade which they 

 indicate, and the almost unlimited possibilities of the future which they 

 assure to our State. So powerful and profound have been these impres- 

 sions, and so great and important are the lessons to be learned from them, 

 that we have thought best to put these impressions and lessons upon paper 

 for the benefit of others. In order to do so, more effectually, we present a 

 separate review of each of the counties, their area, natural resources and 

 advantages; their present development, and their future possibilities. In 

 doing this we have been impelled by a desire that others — the tens and 

 hundreds of thousands of our own people who were unable to attend this 

 Fair, and the other tens of thousands of eastern people who are now in 

 this State or who are coming here — should see these exhibits as we saw 

 them, and should read the lessons of our future from them as we have read 

 them. In making the report in this form we must not be understood as 

 conveying the idea that these counties are superior to the other counties of 

 the State, which were not represented, but rather that they fairly represent 

 the advantages which all parts of the State possess. 



Before reporting upon these counties in detail, we desire, by way of pre- 

 face, to speak of the State generally. 



CALIFORNIA 



Is one of the great States of the Union. It has an area of one hundred 

 and fifty-five thousand square miles, or, in round numbers, one hundred 

 million acres. This area is equal to that of all the great middle States of 



