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able to return the seven million dollars sent out for the 

 purpose of importing silk. L. PREVOST. 



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[Stockton Independent, August 31, 1866.] 

 SILKWORMS, COCOONS AND SILK. 



Mr. Prevost, of San Jose, the pioneer introducer of 

 silkworms into California, expects to attend our District 

 Fair, as the following letter received by Dr. Hofden, 

 President of the San Joaquin Valley District Agricul- 

 tural Society, from that gentleman, shows. 



" SAN JOSE, August 29, 1866. 

 Dr. E. S. Holden, Stockton. 



DEAR SIR : I was just about to write to you when 

 yours of the 21st instant was handed to me, with a 

 complimentary ticket, for which I thank you. It was, 

 and is my positive intention to attend your Fair ; and 

 I hope to have a good place selected for me one that 

 will correspond with the importance of what I propose 

 to exhibit. I will have a good lot of my silk cocoons ; 

 also some from other persons, raised in different por- 

 tions of our silk State. I 'will likewise have reeled 

 silk, silkworms, and probably bring the first piece of silk 

 cloth made in California. I will, at the Fair, give all 

 the information that may be needed about mulberry 



