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specimens of gold and silver-bearing rock from the various mining 

 districts of the coast. The schedules of the former covered a list of 

 seventy different kinds, and represented the products of vineyards 

 from all parts of the State, from Los Angeles to Shasta, and from 

 Sacramento to the high Sierras; and the practical lessons learned 

 from this exhibition were many and important to our vine-growers. 

 There were entered, for donation to the cabinet of the Society and for 

 exhibition, gold and silver-bearing rock to the number of more than 

 three thousand samples, and the interest became an absorbing one to 

 many attendants at the fair. There were also samples of copper ore 

 from fifty-four copper mining companies, and great interest was man- 

 ifested in this department. 

 The Board of Agriculture, in their report to the Society, say : 



The exhibition at the last annual fair, though not as full and abundant in some departments 

 as in some former years, yet proved that the State is making more rapid and substantial pro- 

 gress in the development of wealth and the production of new and useful articles of industry 

 than at any previous time in her history. 



The finances of the Society were greatly improved this year. Upon 

 this subject the Board say: " The debt of the Society has been reduced 

 $7,181 02, leaving the outstanding indebtedness $19,292 56. The 

 receipts for memberships and admission to fair were $13,750. Amount 

 paid in premiums, $4,894 97. All the property of the Society was 

 cleared of incumbrance, and the Society had a monthly income of 

 $100, for rent of Park." 



The eleventh annual meeting of the Society was held at the Pavil- 

 ion on the 29th of January, 1864. At this meeting the constitution of 

 the Society was unanimously amended so as to reduce the price of 

 annual memberships from $10 to $5. C. F. Reed of Yolo, was elected 

 President of the Society. T. L. Chamberlain of Placer, I. H. Culver 

 of Sacramento, and J. J. Owen of Santa Clara, were elected Directors 

 for three years, to supply the places of James McClatchy, G. R. War- 

 ren, and Mike Bryte, terms expired. The Board elected I. N. Hoag 

 of Yolo, Secretary, and E. B. Ryan of Sacramento, Treasurer. J. H. 

 Culver having declined to serve, B. R. Crocker of Sacramento, was 

 elected by the Board to fill the vacancy, and W. P. Coleman of Sac- 

 ramento, was elected Treasurer, to fill the vacancy of E. B. Ryan, 

 resigned. 



On account of the failure of the Legislature to make any appro- 

 priation for the use of the Society, and the unprecedented drouth 

 throughout the State, cutting short the crops and compelling the 

 owners of stock to drive their herds to the mountains for pasture, 

 and the general scarcity of money, the Board decided not to hold a 

 general fair in 1864, but simply a stock show, and to confine this to 

 horses. To enable them to carry this out the citizens of Sacramento, 

 by voluntary subscription, raised a fund of $5,277, and placed the 

 same at the disposal of the Society, for premiums and expenses. The 

 fair was held from the 17th to the 22d of October. The ladies of 

 Sacramento improved the occasion to hold a fair in the Pavilion for 

 the benefit of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. 



Rev. M. C. Briggs, of Sacramento, delivered the annual address 

 before the Society. He took broad ground in favor of rural culture 

 and advancement, both on the farm and in the farm house. He 

 reminded the husbandmen that: 



