REPORT. 



Grass Valley, December 31, 1886. 



To the honorable the State Board of Agriculture: 



Gentlemen: The Directors of the Seventeenth District Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation submit this, their report of the transactions of said association, for 

 the year ending this date. 



GEORGE FLETCHER, Secretary. 



KECK I ITS AND EXPENDITURES. 



Ilrc-ijits. 

 From contributions : 



Nevada City .... $2,554 10 



Grass Valley 1,434 00 



Premiums donated 115 00 



Fruit donated and sold... 75 55 



$4,178 65 



From premiums — exhibit at State Fair.- 207 50 



From life membership ticket*, two, at $20 each 40 00 



From exhibitors of hack badges 265 50 



At Park: 



Five thousand and eleven single admission tickets $2,505 50 



Five hundred and twelve half admission tickets.-- 128 00 



Grand stand, nine hundred and sixty-eight tickets, at 25c. each... 242 00 



$2,875 50 



At Pavilion: 



Three thousand and thirty-two tickets, at 25c. each $758 00 



Sale of lumber ." 35 00 



$793 00 



Privileges sold : 



Rentof Park , $1,200 00 



Two and one half per cent on pools sold 1,152 70 



Refreshment stand at Pavilion 30 00 



$2,382 70 



En tries and forfeits to races 4,105 00 



State appropriation 4,500 00 



Bills payable 500 00 



Overdraft on Treasurer 319 50 



Cash on hand December 31, 1885 240 47 



Total -. $20,413 82 



Expenditures. 

 Permanent improvement: 



New Grand Stand, office, and Director's room. $1,050 53 



Forty-two new box stalls, awning in front of old stalls and stables, 



and shades for exhibition stock... 2,296 54 



New fence inclosing stock grounds and in front of Judge's Stand . 359 74 



Office furniture .... 85 00 



Improvement in waterworks 167 27 



Hose purchased '. 45 00 



Flags 20 60 



Shakes not used 68 00 



$4,092 68 



