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it has been the means or cause of hundreds of acres of this valuable 

 timber being planted, that will' ultimately save thousands to the State 

 in place of imported timber. As our agricultural interest has become 

 the chief interest of this State, and the object of our State Agricultural 

 Society is to foster all the industries of our home productions, I will 

 briefly state there has been a large quantity of farm wagons imported 

 from Michigan, Illinois, Yfisconsin, and Indiana, amounting to over one 

 hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year of money taken from our 

 mechanics, our families, and our merchants, and sent away to enrich 

 Eastern manufactures and to empoverish our State. This can be remedied 

 by the aid and encouragement of our people, provided it is properly 

 "hown to them the importance of sustaining our home manufacturers. 

 My object has been for the past year to do all in my power to sbow and 

 prove that a success can be made in the manufacture of our farming and 

 agricultural implements here. With the aid of capital and experienced 

 mechanics all our farming implements can be made at a profit here, and 

 save a large amount of money now being paid to Eastern manufacturers. 

 I will say to your honorable Board, you have shown conclusively to me 

 that you appreciate the importance of fostering and sustaining the indus- 

 tries of the country, and if in your judgment you think I am entitled to 

 the gold medal of the Society, it will stimulate me to renew my efforts 

 to attain the highest success in home industries. 



Yours truly, E. SOULE. 



CABKIAGES AND BUGGIES. 



ATEMENT OP POLLARD & C'ARVILL, OF SAN FRANCISCO. 



To the Gold Medal Committee: 



As we have beAi awarded the first premiums at the late Fair held at 

 Sacramento for the best display of carriages and buggies, and are com- 

 petitors for the gold medal to be awarded for the manufacture of articles 

 most useful and most meritorious to the State in the class to which we 

 belong, we have deemed it proper to suggest to you some reasons and 

 considerations why the gold medal should be awarded to us: 



First — We are one of the oldest carriage manufacturing establishments 

 in the State. From small beginnings and under many discouragements 

 in former years we 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 business 

 in spite of Eastern cheap labor, capital, and competition. 



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

 its business to the manufacture of Clarence coaches and fine carriages, 

 in successful competition with the celebrated establishments of Brewster 

 and Bogers of New York; and we have made the manufacture of them 

 our specialty, that we might secure tbe highest excellence and command 

 the market on this coast. 



Third — During the past year we have manufactured twenty-four first 

 class Clarence coaches, of the value of forty thousand dollars, and about 

 twice that amount in value of buggies and other fine carriages; three 

 fourths of which amounts were the direct product of California skill 



