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erally accepted that something 1 should be done, and the die seemed 

 about to be cast in our favor; but on the eve of our triumph, a new 

 party appeared in the field. The friends of that giant monopoly 

 known as the San Joaquin & Kings River Canal Company, rushed 

 to the State Capital in force, and in the few hours which intervened 

 our defeat- was accomplished, and on the next day the labor of the 

 year was ignoniiniously defeated. How this was accomplished, we 

 leave you to imagine. Their influence^ _whether exerted through 

 solid argument or other wise, was more potent than the prayers of 

 thousands of fanners. 



Your Committee return thanks to the Executive Committee of 

 this Grange for the aid extended by them enabling one of our 

 Committee to remain in the capital during the pendency of this 

 question. 



Your Committee would ask of this State Grange a renewed effort 

 to accomplish this great enterprise, and recommend the discharge of 

 the present Coirmittee and the appointment of a new Committee, 

 who shall be peculiarly &quot;^e to this great subject. In conclusion, 

 your Committee TT^UIU recommend to every Patron a careful perusal 

 of the very able address, delivered by Hon. M. M. Estee, at the 

 opening of the late State Fair, as being replete with facts and infor 

 mation of great importance to the farmers throughout the State. 



Eeport of Committee on Good of the Order: 



&quot;Whereas, It can be shown from statistics accessible to every one, 

 that the insurance business of the State of California in 1873 

 amounted to $184,345,589, with a profit of $2,377,970, out of which 

 the foreign companies do business in fire risks to the amount of $86,- 

 094,960, with a net profit of $970,478; and that marine risks amount 

 to a business of $56,823,425, with a profit of $973,980, of which busi 

 ness, $24,502,587 is done by foreign companies, with a net profit of 

 $359,199, making a total net profit to the foreign companies doing 

 business in this State, of $1,329,677; and, 



Whereas, It is notorious that the whole, or a larger part of this 

 immense sum is placed at the disposal of our opponents, the grain 

 speculators, and other middle-men of San Francisco, and their agents 

 in the interior of the State; and, 



Whereas, The By-Laws of the California Farmers Fire Insurance 

 Association, an institution formed in our own Order, provides that 

 all funds shall be deposited in the Grangers Bank at San Francisco, 

 thereby placing them where they will be used in our favor, instead 

 of against us; and, 



Whereas, This Company proposes to take fire risks on farm build 

 ings at lower rates than have heretofore obtained, thus securing a 

 material economy, in accordance with the principles of our Order; 

 therefore, be it 



Resolved, That it is the duty of every member of the Order to 

 forward the interests of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Asso 

 ciation, so far as can be done without conflicting with any private 

 right or interest. 



The efforts of the State Grange to put the Agricultural Col- 



