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enable them to conduct the business in showing and 

 telling them all I know about it. 



IV. Another very important fact that I wish to 

 bring to the notice of your readers is, that inside of 

 three months we will have at San Francisco our Cali- 

 fornia Pioneer Silk Manufactory. This shows that we 

 will have at home a market for our silk cocoons. Many 

 persons have been telling me that it was no use to raise 

 silk cocoons, because we had no manufactory, and con- 

 sequently no market for them here. This objection 

 does not exist any more, my friend Mr. Newman hav- 

 ing sailed on the steamer of the tenth inst., for New 

 York, where he will purchase all the necessary machin- 

 ery, and it is anticipated that at our next Fairs, in the 

 fall, we will be able to show the first piece of California 

 silk, and of California manufacture. 



V. I am receiving every day a great many letters 

 on questions about silk from all parts of our State. 

 This shows that a great interest is felt everywhere in 

 this important industry. In the pile of letters on the 

 subject that came during the time I was at Sacramento, 

 I see that we have among us, in our State, all the men 

 for every branch of this business, from the planting of 

 the mulberry to finishing the manufactured silk. I also 

 see in my letters from Europe, that silk growers, silk 

 spinners, and silk manufacturers are preparing to come. 

 This I am glad to see, because it will be a great 

 benefit to the State, as the beauty of that industry is 

 that it is the only one in which we do not fear compe- 

 tition ; on the contrary we need it, and the more there 



