STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. S9 



If we should be fortunate enough to find favor in your sight it will 

 greatly tend to hasten the "good time coming," which all will agree 

 is "a consummation devoutly to be wished." 



Our enterprise, although of but few years existence, has a large 

 amount of capital invested in it, and is employing a large number of 

 men. Our sales are rapidly increasing, and all that is necessary to 

 achieve an abundant success is the guerdon we ask at your hands. 



This is the first time we have felt warranted in making a public 

 exhibition at your fair, wishing thoroughly to test its merits before 

 doing so, but the very flattering testimonials we are constantly receiv- 

 ing from our customers induce us to believe that to delay longer 

 would be to encourage spurious articles being foisted upon the public, 

 greatly to its and our detriment. 



Hoping you will do us the favor to examine into the merits of our 

 paint, as well as carefully consider the accompanying testimonials in 

 its favor, I remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, 



PACIFIC RUBBER PAINT COMPANY. 



Per Jesse Healy. 



San Francisco, October loth, 1875. 



To the Committee on Gold Medals, State Agricultural Society, Sacra- 

 mento, California: 



Gentlemen : To an unreflecting mind it may appear presump- 

 tuous in me to make application for the gold medal of the fourth 

 department for the California Fire and Water-proof Roof Paint 

 Company's paint (Rice & Davis' patent), but when it is remembered 

 that the general introduction of this paint into this State would save 

 many millions of dollars' worth of property from being destroyed 

 annually, the reason for its recognition by your society will be 

 apparent. 



The experiments made before the Committee of the Fourth De- 

 partment recently, during the State Fair (which did me the honor to 

 confer on me a silver medal and diploma), conclusively demonstrated 

 the fact that wood covered with this paint will not burn, and fire 

 cannot be made to spread on roofs protected by it ; cinders or embers 

 falling or thrown upon them die out in a short time, leaving scarcely 

 any sign of their having been there. If a fire be built for the pur- 

 pose of testing its fire-resisting qualities it will be confined to the spot 

 on which the fire is kindled, and will allow plenty of time to extin- 

 guish it before any damage will be sustained by the roof. Had 

 Chicago been protected by this paint, what a terrific catastrophe 

 might have been averted. Fire and water are bad masters, though 

 good servants. 



This paint is valuable, also, for protecting roofs from leaking; old 

 shingles covered with it become reinvigorated and revitalized ; their 

 opening pores are closed, their shrunken condition vanishes, and 

 they assume the appearance of newly-slated roofs, of course removing 

 the tendency to leakage. 



The paint has an additional merit of no slight importance to the 

 public: it is exceedingly cheap, and, consequently, there will be no 

 excuse for people who will not avail themselves of the opportunity 

 presented. 

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