The women shipped 12 tons of garnets to San Francisco in 1915 for the Panama Pacific International Exposition. The gems were to be sold at the Manufacturing Building, having secured the concession from the government to sell their garnets at the San Francisco Fair that year.[i] 

[i] Held just years after the 1906 earthquake the Panama-Pacific exposition had actually been in the planning stages since 1904. Much of the site was built in landfill that partly consisted of debris from the earthquake. It's most visible remnant is the Palace of Fine Arts which was originally made out of plaster and rebuilt with permanent materials in the 1960's.

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