An interesting item was reported by the Tract and Missionary Society in California in April, 1873. It was that the jewelry which had been donated to the society by those who had accepted the truth in that State, up to that date, had been melted, assayed, and sold at its actual gold and silver value for the sum of $200; that this means had all been invested in tracts, pamphlets, and periodicals, which had been distributed, and that the society already had definite knowledge of twenty who had been brought to the acceptance of the truth by means of literature purchased with the proceeds of the jewelry. Among those brought to the knowledge of the truth by reading was John I. Tay, of Oakland, Cal. GSAM 446.1