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turers. I wish to remark to you that one of them had ' 

 my name through the columns of the CALIFORNIA FAR- 

 MER, and that in the south part of France. I wish also to 

 inform you of a very important fact, and that is, in a 

 few months we shall have our pioneer silk manufactory. 

 A friend sailed last Tuesday on the steamer to Panama, 

 on his way to New York, to buy all the necessary ma- 

 chinery, and I hope at our next Fair we will have the 

 first California Manufactured Silk. This will be an 

 inducement for many to go into this fine and profitable 

 business, because we are assured of a market at home 

 for our silk cocoons. I think that we will be able to 

 furnish that manufacturer with four or five hundred 

 thousand this year. 



You have already published in your columns the 

 encouragement offered by the State. It is very impor- 

 tant to see that that bill has passed in that shape that 

 it is an encouragement for all that will go into it, all 

 over,, our blessed State, and that for four years, this 

 culture being properly encouraged, will induce a great 

 many to go into it, and the culture will be well started, 

 after which it will not need to be encouraged, as it will 

 pay itself such profits that we will soon have silk man- 

 ufacturies in all the principal cities of the State. Now 

 that such an encouragmeent by the State is given I will 

 give another ; I will part with the California silk culture 

 and give to everybody all that I know about it. I hope 

 in a week or twelve days to begin to write the California 

 Silk Manual, in which I will give first the culture of 



