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REPORT OF GOLD MEDAL COMMITTEE FOR 1871. 



To the President and Board of Directors of the State Agricultural Society, 



Sacramento, California : 



Gentlemen: The undersigned, in the discharge of the duties assigned 

 them of awarding the gold medals in the different departments of the 

 State Fair, made, during its progress, a careful examination of all the 

 articles and products exhibited. With a view to a more complete under- 

 standing of the case of each claimant, they invited a full written state- 

 ment of the grounds upon which such claim was based, thereby gaining 

 much information with regard to the practical value to the State of 

 several important industries. The committee met, pursuant to adjourn- 

 ment, at the society's rooms in Sacramento, and after careful and delib- 

 erate reading of the papers there submitted, made the following awards: 



Second Department — To E. Soule, of Sacramento, for home manufac- 

 tured farm wagon, and wagon materials made from California grown 

 locust timber. 



Third Department — To Joseph Neumann, of San Jose, for home made 

 silk goods from California raised cocoons. 



Fourth Department — To Winter, Maurer & Co., of the Mission Candle 

 Works, San Francisco, for home made candles. 



Fifth Department — To Ed. Muller, of Nevada City, for exhibition oi 

 the silk business. 



Sixth Department — To J. E. Nickeson, of Lincoln, Placer County, for 

 exhibition of fruit. 



Seventh Department — To J. C. Devine & Bro., of Sacramento, for 

 sculpture and other work in marble. 



The medal for the first department was not referred to this committee 

 to award. In addition to the above, the committee recommended a gold 

 medal for the Pacific Wood Preserving Company, of San Francisco. 



In making their awards the committee have been governed by the 

 following considerations: 



First — The merit of the exhibits; 



Second — The value to the State of the interest thus represented; 



Third — The need of its encouragement. 



Had the merits of the exhibit been alone considered, the awards would 

 in some cases have been difficult. 



SECOND DEPARTMENT. 



In the second department there were ten contestants, viz: 

 E. Soule, of Sacramento, for home manufactured farm wagons, and 

 wagon materials made from locust timber; 



H. M. Bernard, Sacramento, for large and meritorious exhibit of car- 

 riages, wagons, carriage materials, etc., for which he has hitherto 



