San Andreas independent., 1857-05-23
State Agricultural Fair at Stockton.

of racing stock will be tested. To encourage
the entrance of prime stock the Society offers
purse of two hundred and fifty dollars, free for
all California horses-three years old last spring
One mile heats,-best two in three,-rde as
they please. Special purse premiums will also
be awarded for best pacing, trotting and run
ming horses; also for best draft teams of horses,
mules and oxen.
The Cattle Show will be held at the Central
Race Course, one mile northeast of the city
The avenues leading from the Court House
Building to the Cattle Show Ground, will be
kept well sprinkled and free from dust.
The Annual Fair, for the exhibition of the
products of the Soil, and Industry, will be held
as above, in the large Court House Building,
and Grounds adjacent, which will be enclosed
and covered for that purpose.
In the Catalogue of Premiums for this year,
we note many new articles, most of which have
direct reference to mines and mining interests.
Among them are the following Premiums:
For best Rifle Box; $40.
For best model of an Amalgamator for Quartz
Mines, Framed Diploma.)
For best Pump to be used for mining pur-
poses; $25.
For best model of Tunneling Machine,
FRAMED Diploma
Best Cabinet of California Natural History !;
Premium of S25.
Handsomest collection Of Quartz Specimens :;
Premium of $50.
For the best Essay on Quartz Mining; $50
A code of rules and regulations have been
adopted governing each department:
FARMS, ORCHARDS, FIELD CROPS AND VINE
YARDs-Competitor for Premiums in this De-
partment are to give immediate notice of their
intention to the President or Corresponding Sec
retary, that the Committee may visit and exam
inc at the most favorable time. No such notice
will be expected to claim the attention of the
Committee unless received before the first day
of August.
FRUIT.-Competitor for Premiums on Fruit,
Garden Vegetables and Flowers, must believer
to the Committee, on or before the 28th day of
September, the quantity required, with state
ment that the same are grown by the applicant,
within the State, and whatever there may be
peculiar in the mode of cultivating them.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. All manufac-
tured articles and implements must be entered
and placed on exhibition before the goth day of
September, and remain until the close of the
Fair
No Premiums will be awarded for manufac-
tured articles not produced in California yet
the Society will be happy to place such articles
on exhibition, with the names of the importers
or exhibitors.
MANUFACTURES AND HOME INDUSTRY ALI
in this department must deposit
with the Committee satisfactory evidence, in
writing, that the articles exhibited were manu-
factured by the exhibitors within the State.
CATTLE SHow.-The Cattle Show will be held
near Stockton. Competitors for Premiums on
Animals must forward list of those intended
for exhibition to the Recording Secretary, on or
before the 10th of September next.
Stock must be on the ground before 10 A. NJ,
on the 29th of September, when proper places
will be assigned to the animals and on the
days of the Cattle Show they must remain in
their places from 10 A. NJ. to P. NJ.
Discretionary Premiums will be awarded by
the Society on articles or animals which they
shall deem highly meritorious, although they
may not be named in the list of Premiums
Each Committee is authorized to recommend
Special Premiums upon objects which properly
belong to the class assigned to it.
The Judges appointed will in every instance
Premiums animals articles, that, in
their opinion, not aoorthy, though there be no
competition; and no stock of inferior quality will
be admitted within the ground
The Managers of the Society will be present
during the Fair, to give directions to all who
may wish to enter animals or any articles for
Premiums or exhibition, and forage will be fur
nished gratis for all animals entered for Pre-
miums.
The various Premiums awarded will be
promptly paid upon the reception of the State
Premium Fund of $4,000, which is wholly de-
voted to this purpose.
SPECIAL PREMIUMs.-FOR LADIES IN SADDLE
IN. B. No competitor will be allowed to enter
this list without card from a Committee, to
secure ladies from improper association.)
To the most accomplished Lady Rider, Saddle, s55
Third do do Riding Whip, 10
FoR GENTLEMEN IN SADDLE
To the most skillful Gentleman Rider, s25
SPECIAL PURSE PREMIUMs.-An opportunity
will be given for the trial of the Strength of
Teams, and the Speed of Horses, running against
time; the Premiums being provided in each de-
partment, by an extra Entrance Fee of Five
Dollars, three-fourths of which shall be allotted
to the best animal team in its class, the other
fourth to be awarded as a second Premium ;
the winner of the first prize in every case to be
entitled to Diploma of the Society, as an ad-
ditional Premium.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.; Cured Meats, &c. ;
Native Wine; Flowers; Vegetables Agricultu-
raj Implements Works of Art Flowing Match !;
Essays no regulations specified.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
WM GARRARD, President;
E. S. HOLDEN, First Vice President;
J. G. COBB, Corresponding Sec'y;
GEO. H. SANDERSON, Recording Sec'y;
P. EDWARD CONNOR, Treasurer.
NEW REPUBLICAN PAPERs.-The first number