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For brilliancy of light, for economy, for simplicity, efficiency, cer- 

 tainty, and security, they are not only unexcelled, but there are no 

 machines that can compare with them. 



"We have no customer — out of the many in California — who will say 

 less for us. 



"We claim that all the distinguishing parts of these works, which are 

 its real merits, are California inventions. 



I am yours, respectfully, A. D. WELL, Secretary. 



GOPHER TRAP. 

 Statement of George A. Lloyd, of San Francisco. 

 To the Gold Medal Committee: 



Gentlemen: Our object in making application for the gold medal for 

 the gopher trap exhibited at the State Fair, held September eighteenth, 

 eighteen hundred and seventy-one, is to show the superiority it has over 

 all others now in use, and over all others now on exhibition throughout 

 the State. It has been acknowledged by all that have seen and used it 

 that the animal has no escape from it. It goes for them. Large sums 

 of money have been expended by some of our farming districts for the 

 capture of the gopher and squirrel with but little success. Since the 

 introduction of our trap into Alameda there have been hundreds killed, 

 thus showing the great value of the trap. Again, it is both novel and 

 useful. 



Your award will gratify and stimulate the inventor, and will also 

 greatly enhance the value of the indention by increasing its use. 



Yours respectfully, GEORGE A- LLOYD. 



ENDLESS ROPEWAY. 

 Statement of A. S. Hallidie. 

 To the Committee on Award of Gold Medals, State Agricultural Society: 



Gentlemen: In explanation of the system for the economical trans- 

 portation of ores, rock, etc., over mountainous countries and difficult 

 roads, exhibited by me at the late Fair of your Society, I beg to make 

 the following statement: 



This system was invented by myself to meet a great want in the 

 rough mining regions on this coast, and to provide means whereby mate- 

 rial can be transported at low cost and in large quantities, thus enabling 

 the mine owner to convey the ore from the mine to the reducing works, 

 especially low grade ore, and under conditions and circumstances when 

 it would otherwise be practically impossible, or nearly so. 



In order to make this statement clear and intelligible, I shall have to' 

 refer to diagrams accompanying this; but I may say that the general 

 system is by means of an endless steel Avire rope, which, passing around 



