Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-28
District Fairs.

! OF sun JOaQului OOhtI1 NOSt"i Nuiu' e'A9'
Tuolumne, Stanisaus, Merced, Mariposa, Fres
no and Tulare being represented in the Con
vention San Francisco now proposes to
combine with adjacent counties and establish
a District Society for her section of the State
A Convention for the purpose assembled on
Friday last, and was attended by delegates
| from Sonoma, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa
| Clara and San Francisco. The Napa County
Agricultural Society, through their President
addressed a letter to the Convention approx
ing tina movement in a certain degree, but not
EXPRESSING n desire to cut entirely loose from
the State Society. The writer is of the opin
ion that "a ne,c Stata Association should be
formed, by which more equal justice will
be done all parts Of the State, local interest
in Agricultural Fairs encouraged, and the
State Society itself placed on a basis which
will render it independent Of sectional inter-
ests in its management, and, while affording
greater freedom to the exhibitor, be less
cumbrous and uncertain in its action"
On Saturday, Committee, appointed for
the purpose, reported Constitution for the
proposed organization, and the report will be
considered by IN adjourned meeting of the
Convention, which will assemble at the town
Of San Jose, on the 2lst of March. The fol-
lowing persons are special committee to
whom the above report was referred with in
structions to make such amendments as they
thought proper:
A. II. Myers, Alameda; William Daniels,
Santa Clara John Center San Francisco G.
P. Loucks, Contra Costa John Cumming. San
Mateo; d. r. Ashley. Monterey; Judge
Blackburn, Santa Cruz
The plan of the organization, so far as de-
vsloped is as follows:
The Society, to be called "The San Francis
co Bay District Agricultural Society" shall
consist Of such persons us shall pay to its
Treasurer the sum of IS annually and agree
TO support its Constitution. Any person pay.
ing, at any one time, twenty FIVE dollars,
shall be member for life. Special meetings
may be called by the Board of Managers, due
notice having been given a month previously.
There shall be a President, seven Vice Presi-
dents, one from each county, Secretary a
Treasurer, ard two Directors, who shall be
elected at an annual meeting and hold office
one year. These officers shall constitute the
Board of Managers The place ior holding
the Annual Fairs shall be determined by q
Board of Delegates, composed Of one from
each county embraced in its organization, and
said Fairs shall not be holden in any county
more than once, until each county shall have
had the advantages of a Fair, if desired Said
delegates to be chosen by the County Society
where organized; and when no County So
ciety exists, by the agriculturists thereof
This Constitution may be altered or amended
at an Annual Meeting, but not without the
vote of four counties, each county having one
vote.
Previous to adjournment Committee re-
ported in favor of the abolishment of the
present State Society, and the organization of
a new State Society by the Joint action of the
District Societies They therefore recon-
mended repeal of the law appropriating
$4,000 annually to the present State Society
and requesting the Legislature in lieu there
of to make liberal appropriations to the Dis
trict Societies. They propose that the State
be divided into Agricultural Districts as fol-
lows:
The Northern District, as already embrac-
ing all the counties north of Sacramento
Sacramento District, embracing Sacramen.
to- Yolo, Placer, El Dorado, and Amador.
San Joaquin District, embracing San Joa-
quin, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Mari |
posa, Fresno, Buena Vista, Merced and Tu- |
lare.
San Francisco Bay District-San Francisco.
San Muteo, Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa
Cruz, Monterey and Contra Costa.
Sonoma and Napa District-Sonoma, Napa,
Solano, Marin and Mendocino.
Humboldt District-Humboldt Trinity,
Siskiyou, Del NortS and klamath
Los Angeles District-Los Angeles, San
Bernardino, San Diego and San Luis Obispo.
This report was adopted.
A letter was read from G. N. Swezy, Presi-
dent of the Agricultural Society of the North
ern District of California addressed to Mr..
Myers, President of the Alameda Society,
from which we make the following extract:
In reference to the object of your meeting
in forming District Societies, can but refer
you to our own action in that direction as ex
pressive of my opinion of the same. In April
of last year, the people of the Northern coun
ties Of this State deemed it advantageous to
their interests to organize District Society,
n,,ll 4 l. II. -.
the counties north of Sacramento. The So
ciety is called "The Agricultural Horticul
tural and Mechanical Society of the Northern
District of California" This Society held its
first Annual Exhibition commencing on the
SOth day of August last, which. as a whole.
was success, and far more ereditable than
that Of the State Society, held in Marysvile,
in the year 1858. We design to keep up our
organization and are now preparing to hold
an exhibition for this year, which shall
eclipse that of the State Society, or those of
any other Society in the State.
ltis evident. from the great variety of eli
mate and soil, and the great want of uni
tormity in the seasons, of the different por-
tions Of the State, that either the State Fair
must migrate from one portion Of the State
to another, or we mnst have District Fairs, to
accommodate our citizens. Impressed with
the belief that District Fairs were better cal
culated to promote the interests of agricul-
ture, horticulture and the other branches of
industry, we undertook the organization of
our Society.
1t may be we'll to consider whether it is
not advisable, in case the District system is
adopted, that we have State Fair located at
some central point At such Fair the pre-
MUM stock and articles Of the various Dis
trct Societies could be brought in competi-
tion, and thus a spirit of rivalry and emula
ton be Stimulated between the several dis