STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 315 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



UPPER SACRAMENTO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 



FOR 1869. 



Office Upper Sacramento Agricultural Society, ) 

 Pavilion, Chico, December 27th, 1869. \ 



I. N. Hoaj, for the Stale Board of Agriculture : 



Dear Sir : Your letter of November seventeenth to General Bid well, 

 President of this association, requesting information in regard to the 

 proceedings of the society for the present year, has been referred to me, 

 and I have the honor to transmit the following statements : 



Our society was organized in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as the 

 Butte County Agricultural Society, and held a fair that season, which 

 proved very successful, particularly when the short time for preparation 

 and the total inexperience of all concerned in the management are con- 

 sidered. 



Another fair was held by the society in eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 eight, which was well attended, but which, from various causes, did not 

 prove as great a financial success. 



At the annual meeting of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the society 

 was reorganized under the present name, and the field of its operations 

 extended to embrace the Counties of Butte, Colusa, Plumas, Tehama, 

 Shasta and Lassen, and a Board of Agriculture elected as follows: 



President — J. Bidwell. 



Vice Presidents— W. N. De Haven, S. M. Sproul, G. C. Perkins, C. L. 

 Wilson. 



Treasurer — J. C. Noonan. 



Secretary — E. Hallet. 



Directors — K. Big^s, D. M. Reavis, J. L. Keefer, J. C. Mandeville, G. 

 F. JSTourse, J. J. Morehead, W. P. Tilden. W. F. Cheney. B. F. Allen, J. 

 Thompson, S. T. Brewster, G. W. Hoag, J. Boggs, J. Billion, J. C. Tyler, 

 H. A. Rawson, G. H. Messersmith, H. B. Sheldon, J. J. Bell, G. I. Tag- 

 gart, A. W. Heitzig. 



It being already evident that we had a season of light crops and low 

 prices, with the resulting financial pressure to contend with, it became a 

 matter of very serious discussion whether it was policy to hold a fair 

 this season; but it was finally decided to attempt it. and the inclosed 



