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and valves, that renders them more durable and lasting than the old 

 style of leather packings. 



That by the application of the air-chamber, that cannot be used 

 on any other style of pumps, a partial vacuum is formed that secures 

 for the motor all atmospheric pressure that is obtainable, and saves 

 its complement of power, equivalent to fourteen pounds to the square 

 inch. 



That because of our metal-packed plunger being so loose as to 

 create no friction when operated, we save the power required to over- 

 come the friction of the leather packings in all other styles of pumps. 



That for the reason above explained our pumps will never disturb 

 the sand that may be in the well, or other place of supply, and never 

 raise one grain thereof to destroy the working parts of the pump. 



That the power thus saved is at least fifty per cent, of the power 

 required to operate any. other style of pump ; and for this reason, 

 with proper encouragement, we will be enabled not only to compete 

 successfully with Eastern pump factories, for there are no pump fac- 

 tories on the Pacific Coast, but to drive such competition entirely 

 from our State, and, in this matter, our success will surely be estab- 

 lished, and we will no longer be compelled to seek the assistance 

 from your honorable body that we now ask, and feel that we are at 

 liberty to claim, when we have, by reason of the power saved by our 

 pumps, as above shown, introduced in the market a fire engine for 

 extinguishing fires in cities, that can be drawn by one horse as easily 

 as the famous Amoskeag fire engine'can by two, and will do as much 

 execution — that is, throw as much water and as far as the latter 

 engine. 



That for the reasons above stated, we feel that our exhibition pos- 

 sesses more real merit than any other in our department. 



We feel that it is the province of your committee "to lend some 

 supportance to the bending twigs " — to those exhibitions of real 

 merit just on the threshold of development, rather than to heap 

 encomiums upon industries of success already assured, because of 

 their extent or extravagance, for, indeed, real merit does not always 

 go hand in hand with financial success. 



It is a fact that there are no pump factories on the Pacific Coast of 

 any magnitude, although statistics show that within the last year at 

 least two million dollars' worth of pumps have been imported into 

 this State and sold here, and that still none of such pumps supply 

 the demands of our dry and warm climate, but are all defective. 



If the proper recognition of the merits of our exhibition is now 

 given us by you, our financial success will be assured, and we will 

 no longer feel that we can claim or demand that recognition from you 

 that we now seek, for, indeed, it will be sufficient reward to know 

 that from our invention more good has been enjoyed or realized by 

 the people of the State than from any other exhibition in our 

 department. 



Inasmuch as we do not know a single member of your committee, 

 and that you may have never seen our pumps, you are respectfully 

 invited to call at our office, number eighty-one J Street, between Third 

 and Fourth, up stairs, where you can see samples of them in opera- 

 tion, and be better enabled to act upon our claims. 



Craving pardon for this extended trespass upon your time, we 

 humbly submit our claims to vour favorable consideration. 



THOMAS & BULLAPD. 



