REPORT 



Rooms of the Golden Gate DisTKifT Fair Association, ] 



Oakland, December 1st, 1878. j 



To the Honorable the State Board of Agriculture : 



Pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State 

 of California, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of agricult- 

 ure and other industries," approved March eighteenth, eighteen 

 hundred and seventy-eight, the Directors of the Golden Gate District 

 Fair Association respectfully submit this their report of the transac- 

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



The Association was organized the twenty-third day of January, 

 A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, under the laws of tiie State 

 of California, for the purpose of holding annual fairs at the City of 

 Oakland, for the promotion and encouragement of agriculture, hor- 

 ticulture, mechanics, manufactures, stock raising and general domes- 

 tic industry. 



The first annual fair of the Association was held for and during 

 the six days commencing Monday, September ninth, and ending 

 Saturday, September fourteenth, this year. 



The premiums offered at such fair, and the rules and regulations 

 under which the same was held and conducted, are contained and 

 specified in the pamphlet l^yereto prefixed. 



The exhibits at such fair were as follows, to wit : , 



AT THE PARK. 



FIRST DEPARTMENT— CLASS I.— THOROUGHBRED HORSES. 



STALLIONS. 



Four years old and over. 



Jos. Cairn Simpson, Oakland — Tlirce Cheers. 

 H. C. Jiulson, San Francisco — Wild Idle. 

 R. P. Clement, Alameda County — Tliad. Stevens. 

 Wm. Boots, San Josi- — Rob. Wooding. 



Two years old. 



J. B. Chase, San Francisco — Warwick, by Hubbard. 



One year old. 



H. C. Judson, San Francisco — Tyler, bj' Wild Idle. 



H. C. Judson, San Francisco — Contra Costa, by Wild Idle. 



H. C. Judson, San Francisco — Jack Douglass, by Wild Idle. 



Under one yeur old. 



R. P. Clement, Alameda County— Tlia.l. Dudley, by Thad. Stevens. 



MARK.S. 



Four years old and over, with colt. 



R. P. Clement, Alameda County — Kate Dudley, by St. Joe. 

 James Mee, San Francisco — Katie Pease, by Planet. 



