ORGANIZATION OF STATE GRANGE OF CALIFORNIA. 



all necessary guards and restrictions to prevent imposition and 

 fraud would be thrown around it, gave it their hearty support; and 

 not one of them had an idea their action was in the least degree a 

 departure from the principles which should control the action of 

 Grangers, or a violation of the objects and purposes of the Patrons 

 of Husbandry, as fully set forth and given to the world in our 

 Platform of Principles. 



CHAPTER XII. 



ANNALS OF THE STATE GRANGE OF -CALIFORNIA. 



ORGANIZATION AT NAPA KEPRESENTATION : ADDRESS OF N. W. GARRETSON: 

 SPECIFIC OBJECTS STATED HESOLUTIONS : STATE BOOK OF PLANS: ELECTION OF 

 OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: AGENCIES PROVIDED FOR FIRST AN 

 NUAL MEETING ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR GRANGES IN THREE MONTHS 

 WORTHY MASTER WRIGHT S ADDRESS KEPORT OF COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION: 

 COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY INTO AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITY 

 ELECTION OF OFFICERS FOR Two ENSUING YEARS PRESENTATION TO BRO. 

 GARRETSON INSTALLATION PROF. CARR S LECTURE CONSTITUTION AND BY 

 LAWS. 



THE organization of the j&amp;gt;tate Grange of California took place 

 at Napa, on the 15th of July, 1873, scarcely three months after 

 the adjournment of the rarmers r ~Union Convention. Mean 

 while, a special deputy from the National Grange had been 

 busy organizing the necessary number of Subordinate Granges, 

 which were now convened; the First President of the State 

 Agricultural Society, Hon. J. M. Hamilton, Worthy Master of 

 Guenoc Grange, appeared among the good men and true, who 

 had been active members of the Union, and upon whose 

 shoulders the burden of responsibility was afterward cast. 



The following Granges were represented by their proper 

 officers: 



&quot;W. H. Baxter and Mrs. Baxter, Napa Grange; &quot;W. A. Fisher, 

 Past Master, Napa Grange; E. B. Stiles, &quot;W. San Joaquin Grange; 

 J. D. Spencer and Mrs. Spencer, Stanislaus Grange; T. Hart Hyatt, 

 Vacaville Grange; &quot;W. M. Thorp and Mrs, Thorp, Chico Grange; J. 

 B. Jolley and Mrs. Jolley, Merced Grange; J. D. Eeyburn and 

 Mrs. Hey burn, Salida Grange; R. C. Haile, Suisun Valley Grange; 

 G. W. Henning, San Jose Grange; J. D. Fowler, Hollister Grange; 

 W. S. Manlove and Mrs. Manlove, Sacramento Grange; W. M. 

 Jackson and Mrs. Jackson, Yolo Grange; Nelson Carr and. Mrs. N. 

 Carr, Bennett Valley Grange; G. W. Davis and Mrs. G. W. Davis, 

 Santa Rosa Grange; T. H. Merry and Mrs. T. H. Merry, Healds- 



