CLAIMS FOR THE GOLD MEDALS FOR 1874. 



SECOND DEPARTMENT. 



San Francisco, December 17th, 1874. 

 Secretary of the State Agricultural Society: 



Dear Sir: As we have been awarded the first premium at the late 

 Fair, and are competitors for the gold medal to be awarded for the 

 most meritorious display and most useful to the State, in the class to 

 which we belong, we have deemed it proper to suggest to your Gold 

 Medal Committee some reasons and considerations why the gold medal 

 should be awarded to us. 



First — We are one of the oldest carriage manufacturing establish- 

 ments in the State, and have finally succeeded in profitably employing 

 and developing California labor, skill, and capital, in an important branch 

 of manufacture, and in building up and establishing a prosperous busi- 

 ness, in spite of Eastern cheap labor and competition. 



Second — We are the only company on this coast that strictly confines 

 its business to the manufacture of first-class carriages, Clarence coaches, 

 etc., in successful competition with the best Eastern manufacturers, and 

 we have made the manufacture of them our specialty, that we might 

 secure the highest excellence, and command the market on this coast. 



Third — The business which we have thus established upon a basis 

 which defies competition, is destined to expand in importance as the 

 wealth and population of the State increases, xintil in the very near 

 future it will save to and retain in the State hundreds of thousands of 

 dollars annually, which would otherwise be sent out of and lost to the 

 State, and thus depriving large numbers of our most skilled mechanics 

 of employment. 



Fourth — We are also hoping and expecting that many of the mate- 

 rials required in the manufacture of carriages, in consequence of the 

 steadily increasing demand for them created by our business, will soon 

 be produced in our State, thus largely extending the field of productive 

 industry. 



