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unusual drought of the past season, I have been able to meet all demands 

 and to place my business on a sound and promising basis, and with 

 proper encouragement and a liberal share of patronage, hope soon to be 

 able to add still greater facilities of manufacture, and thus be of still 

 greater benefit to the State, and defy competition from abroad. 



I am glad to be able to state that the mechanical industries of the 

 State are looking up. and the prospects of all mechanical and manufac- 

 turing trades are "Towinc; brighter. My own business in the year 

 eighteen hundred and seventy-one has been at least double what it was 

 in eighteen hundred and seventy. 



Without further comment, I will state that my claim to the 



gold medal: 



First — Upon the merit of inventing the plows and trotting bug 



Second — Upon the fact that my exhibition embraced a greater variety 

 of home manufactured agricultural implements than any other exhibition, 

 and that each article exhibited by me was equal, if not superior, to sim- 

 ilar articles exhibited by any other person. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, by 



Yours, etc.. WILLIAM B. HEADY. 



WAGON 



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Statement of E. Sotjle. 



To the Gold Medal Committee: 



Gentlemen: As there is a gold medal to be awarded to the most meri- 

 torious exhibition in each of the seven departments, as an exhibitor 

 in the second department I thought it proper to present to you for your 

 consideration bllowing statement: With regard to the extent of 



my manufacture for the last twelve months, of farm, lumber, and expri 

 wagons, I have built and sold one hundred and twenty -farm wagons, at 

 an average of one hundred and sixty dollars each, amounting to near 

 twenty id dollars. Have built and sold of express and other 



wagons to the amount of thirty-five* wagons, at an average of two hun- 

 dred dollars each., amounting to isand dollars. Also, about 

 five thousand dollars of rep; ; upwards of thirty thousand 

 dollars. The above work has all been manufactured in Sacramento, and 

 the mi e of from eighteen to twenty men and for 

 material purchased here. las come from Nevada, Idaho, 

 Oregon, and from many parts o State, and so great has been the 

 demand for these wagons that the capacity of my works has been 

 inadequate to filbmy orders for the lust eight months. Another impor- 

 tant feature in home industry — most of these wagons have been manu- 

 factured from thimble skeins i is city, from patterns of my own 

 make, amounting to some one thousand five hundred dollars the last 

 year. Heretofore all had to be imported. The important improvements 

 on my thimble skeins has made them preferable to any other. 1 have 

 also been testing our locust of home growth for the past three yea; 

 and have found it and recommended .it as being equal if not superior to 

 any Eastern growth I have ever seen. Through my experiments and. 

 exhibitions of this timber I have called the attention of hundreds of 

 farmers to the importance and value of the timber, and I have no doubt 



