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STATEMENT OF THE PACIFIC INK FACTOEY, OF SAN 



FRANCISCO. 



Eob't Beck, Esq., Secretary California State Agricultural Society. 



Dear Sir: In answer to yours of the twenty-third ultimo, requiring 

 us, " as competitors for the gold medal premium, in the fourth depart- 

 ment, to file with you a written statement, giving our reasons why the 

 gold medal should be awarded us," we beg leave to say: 



First — We claim that our inks, mucilage, and liquid blueing are supe- 

 rior to any imported. 



Second — The Alta, in eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, estimated that 

 upwards of one million of dollars per annum was sent out of the State 

 to pay for imported inks alone, all of which we expect to stop within 

 the next twelve inonths, by furnishing a better article at less price. 



Thihl — We expect not only to supply the region heretofore supplied 

 from San Francisco, but shall shortly commence exporting to the 

 Southern and Western States; and as we are enabled to manufacture 

 inks here cheaper than they can be manufactured in New York and 

 Boston, we have no doubt but their exportation will be profitable to us 

 and advantageous to the State. 



Fourth — The inks imported into this market come from New York, 

 Boston, Philadelphia, London, Paris, and Berlin; there are no other ink 

 manufactories of any note, in the world, other than those named, and 

 the establishment here, upon the shores of the Pacific, of an ink factory, 

 supplying the world with inks superior to any other, should be a source 

 of pride to Californians, and the Managers of the State Fair are in duty 

 bound to do all in their power to bring about this great desideratum. 



Fifth — Our establishment, directly and indirectly, gives employment 

 to a large number of men. Our bills, for printing labels alone, amount- 

 ing to some two hundi-ed dollars per month, and continually on the 

 increase. 



Sixth — The announcement in the public newspapers, that the Califor- 

 nia State Fair had awarded us the gold medal, would give our manufac- 

 tures a status abroad that would be of great pecuniary advantage to 

 us and of permanent benefit to the State. 



Hoping that your committee will examine the matter thoroughly, and 

 conclude that our manufactures, being of great importance to the State, 

 and as we have never before applied for or received a medal, and that 

 as the advancement of a home industry is the enrichment of our whole 

 people, will, in your good judgment, award us the medal, 



We remain, your most obedient, KNOWLTON & HAEEIS. 



STATEMENT OF NICHOLS, FALVY & CO., OF SACEAMENTO. 



To the Gold Medal Committee of eighteen hundred and seventy: 



Gentlemen: Wc enter our claim for the gold medal in the fourth 

 department, and think that we arc entitled to it for the following reasons: 

 that our goods (pails, tubs, and woodenware), being entirely and exclu- 

 sively of home manufacture, are entitled to and deserving of more credit 



