State Agricultural Society. 149 



Eastern States; heretofore his capital has not been large enough to do 

 it. I claim for this invention a press upon entire new principles, com- 

 bining strength, rapidity, and compactness never before obtained in a 

 press. A full description of the working of the press would require too 

 much of your time. (A description will be given if requested.) Being 

 an invention which is of great benefit to the agricultural portion of the 

 State, and purely of California invention and manufacture, 1 think it 

 well worthy of your consideration; and if the committee who are to 

 award this medal will give my application their consideration, I think 

 they will agree that this press was the most meritorious invention 

 exhibited in that department. 



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I am, yours most respect fully, C. If. HUBBARD. 



THIRD DEPARTMENT. 



STATEMENT OF HIRAM COOK. OF SACRAMENTO. 



To the Committee to Award Gold Medals: 



Gentlemen: The undersigned, in accordance with the regulations of 

 your honorable Society, herewith very respectfully submits his claims 

 for award of gold medal for the third department. 



I base my claims as follows: 



First — -Your Committee on Premiums have awarded me first premium 

 on the best carriage harness, best farm harness, best ladies' saddle, best 

 display of riding bridles; also, best assortment of saddlery on exhibition 

 at the State Fair in eighteen hundred and seventy. 



Second — The above articles were manufactured in Sacramento, where 

 I have been manufacturing harness, saddles, and everything in the above 

 line for the last eighteen years. 



Third — I am using California leather only, and employing a large 

 number of hands in the manufacturing of harness, saddlery, collars,' 

 whips, lashes, etc. I therefore claim your honorable consideration. 



Respectfully, HIRAM COOK. 



STATEMENT OF JOHN S. FINCH, OF HAYWARD'S. 



To the Board of Award of Gold Medals: 



Gentlemen: Herewith please find a stalk and the rough fiber of 

 ramie plant, which I have entered in competition for the gold medal 

 premium as a new and valuable product grown in the County of Ala- 

 meda and State of California. 



Its general merits, -though lately introduced in this country, are 

 becoming generalky acknowledged, and as it is likely to effect a great 

 revolution in the manufacture of fibrous fabrics, it is of the utmost 

 importance that a knowledge of its great intrinsic value be universally 

 diffused. 



