272 Transactions op the 



STEAM PUMP. 

 Statement op A. L. Fish, op San Francisco. 



Committee on Gold Medals: 



Gentlemen: At the last State Fair I exhibited Knowles' patent steam 

 pump. There being no competition it would naturally be entitled to the 

 first premium, but as a most meritorious machine I ask that a gold medal 

 be awarded it. The grounds upon which I would base such claim are 

 as follows, to wit: 



First — As a simple, durable, and economical apparatus for raising water 

 for irrigating, mining, or any other purpose, it is without an equal — 

 there being nothing so generally required on the Pacific Coast as an 

 economical water lifter. (I would respectfully refer you to the trial by 

 Mechanics' Institute Fair, of San Francisco, ending September ninth, 

 eighteen hundred and seventy-one — showing a saving over the Hanscom 

 water lifter of thirty-seven per cent, and receiving the highest premium 

 and diploma over all other steam pumps.) 



Second — This pump has no fly wheel, no intermediate connections, and 

 is without centers or dead points, water working the valve the same 

 as steam, consequently it will start from any point of the stroke, requir- 

 ing no lever or hand work to start the valve or piston. 



Third — The surfaces are all ground, requiring no rubber packing. 



Fourth — The valve being positive under all circumstances, the pump 

 may be placed down in the deepest mines connected with a steam pipe 

 to the boiler, the pump being controlled by the engineer on top of the 

 ground. 



Fifth — The suction and discharges are all very large; the openings, in 

 the pump correspond; the valves are of large area, requiring but short 

 lifts. Valves of different material and kinds to suit different purposes. 



Sixth — The workmanship is superior and the material of the very 

 best. 



As a worthy machine, standing at the head of its class, a machine 

 generally required and deserving the highest award, I ask you to give 

 it a gold medal for its intrinsic worth and as an advertising card. 



Yours respectfully. A. L. PISH. Agent. 



BOOT SCKEWING MACHINE. 



Statement of Nicholas LumsdEn, of Sacramento. 



To the Committee on (laid Medals: 



I claim a gold medal for my screw machine because: 



First — It is easily made, and can screw boots on unplated lasts, which 

 no other machine can do. 



Second — When lasts are plated with iron my machine, in the hands of 

 an ordinary workman, will screw the bottoms on from four to six dozen 

 pairs of boots in one day; boots which are sold at from six dollars to 

 nine dollars a pair. 



Third — The price of my machine is fifty dollars; other machines cost 



