94 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Sacramento, September 25th, 1875. 



TJu lh > a arable Board of Directors: 



( rENTLEMEN : I hereby present my claim to your honorable body 

 for the society gold medal, for the most meritorious exhibition of 

 home manufacture in the fourth department. 



Respectfully yours, JOHN BREUNER. 



Sacramento, September 24th, 1875. 



To the Presidt nt and Board of Directors of the State Agricultural Society : 



Gentlemen: We, the undersigned, first manufacturers of organs 

 on the Pacific coast, do apply for the society's gold medal, for the 

 most meritorious exhibition in the fourth department, class three, 

 of musical instruments, all of California manufacture; and we do 

 further state that we have now on exhibition in the California State 

 Fair five organs, viz: styles A, B, fourteen, twenty, and twenty-four, 

 as per annexed schedule. 



Should you deem our handiwork entitled to the society's gold 

 medal, w r e would forever remain, 



Your most obedient servants, CLARK & CO. 



Sacramento, October 8th, 1875. 



To the Committee on Gold Medals of the California State Agricultural 

 Society : 



Gentlemen : The undersigned herd >y respectfully presents to you 

 his claim for the award of the gold medal in the fourth department 

 of this year's exhibition, and submits the following grounds: 



First — That he has exhibited the largest ami most varied assort- 

 ment of articles in the said department. 



Second — That for each article or sets of articles exhibited, he has 

 been awarded either a premium or a diploma, as follows: Class 

 four, number four, for cedar ware; class four, number five, for pine 

 ware; class one, number six, for anti-friction model; class four, num- 

 ber six, for split-wood baskets; class four, number seven, for turned 



lathework; class , number eight, for osier willow ware; class 



four, number nine, for wooden ware; class one, number ten, for 

 marbleized wood; class four, number ten, for wood carving: class 

 one, number eleven, for ornamental statuary; class one. number 

 eleven, tor brass work ; class four, number eleven, for turned Britannia 

 ware; class four, number twelve, for firearms, ( lalifornia manufacture; 

 class four, number twelve, breach-loading shotgun; miscellaneous, 

 number thirty-seven, for two corner brackets; miscellaneous, num- 

 ber thirty-eight, for hanging baskets- miscellaneous, number thirty- 

 nine, for ivory turned work ; miscellaneous, number forty, for ivory 

 and wood spinning-wheel, brier-wood pipes, amber and horn cigar 

 tubes, horn and shell snuff-boxes, pipe steins, meerschaum pipes, 

 and cigar-holders. 



Third — That every article exhibited by him, with the exception of 

 the shotgun, is of his own manufacturing, and can compete in quality, 

 as well as in price, with any similar imported article. 



W'M. EBERHARDT. 



