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case that somebody may wish to see them. I will have 

 a grand exhibition of silk and silk cocoons at our Santa 

 Clara Valley Fair, in September, and will give there 

 all the information needed on that important subject. I 

 will see that such an accident does not occur again. It 

 never has occurred before during the five years that I 

 have been raising them. 



Yours, respectfully, 



L. PREVOST. 

 SAN JOSE May 6, 1866. 



[Sacramento Daily Union, August 25, 1866.] 

 SILK FACTORY AND SILK RAISING. 



We are informed by L. Prevost, of San Jose, who 

 is so deeply interested in the production of silk, that 

 his friend Joseph Newman has recently returned from 

 the East, with a complete set of machinery, looms, etc., 

 to take the silk from the cocoon and manufacture it in 

 all forms and styles. The machinery is stated to be of 

 the latest and most improved kind, and he intends to 

 produce from it the first piece of silk manufactured for 

 exhibition at the State Fair. On visiting the principal 

 silk factories in the East, Newman observed that some 

 of the manufacturers employed as many as three thou- 

 sand hands. As we have the best country in the 

 world for the raising of silk, Prevost is in hopes that in 

 a short time we will raise enough of it to employ as 



