Weekly Council Bluffs bugle. (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1857-1860, 1857-11-18
WEEKLY BUGLH
3 DAY NoHKaGRER 4. 1851.
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!. STATS Gessste, Issued By sht sseresar
~ ssss State Agriealtural soajety, sells
! ising proposals from the different town
and eieiea in ths State fos atting a
! grounds sor tho next State Fair, WI,
!. should the place ssheFe the aexs fiis isfl
be held bo determins,l by the amour
: subscribed towards prep1ring thD
grounda2 We did shahk that Stale FAIR
we're held for the purpose of snc"arag
ing the diEsysas deparsmsEla u enter
prise within oar stsaef bat as jet is ap.
pears that they hare heen held for tbs
. hsne6sof the city whesS thsy we're held,
and ID shafs L quite ! lpifif ps FisalEs
exhibited aaaop srsna assiess tas
place whore Ghe next State FAIR Is 10 be
held is 10 be dese4uiBea by assesioH, and
struck on to the city that will give tbs
most towards Prsparing The grounds
This doarss IL wrong--fAirs ars instita~
Ted fos the banaas Of tAe farming and
laboring olasses-foE the exhibition Of
horses and ssoek raised in our own State
lat least this .saoald bs the object; bus
as they are conducted Row, they are con.
ysnient fxups, where the black hid glove
gentry of the cities, exhibit the speed of
their impaired BOblails, At the expense
Of the farmer and laboEing portion Of
community. This is all wrong. The
fair ought TO be held a. near th9 center
Of the State ss possibls. DEs Mol&Es
Cry, now the capital Of the State, j" the
point where the fair should be held
whether the citizens are able to subscribe
as much towards the preparation Of the
grounds OF aot, as some Of the older cit
les. The holding Of the State Fair at
the sxtrAms eastern portion Of ths State,
is virtual exclusion Of the people Of
the western portion from any partieiPa-
tion therein. We know Of many farm
ers who would have attended the last
fair, If it had been held at Des Moines,
Fairfield, Oskaloosa or Knoxvtllc, bat
when they we're compelled to travel TIRES
hundred and Bf.y miles to attend it,
wisely concluded to stay at home. II is
argued that the fair oughtto be hsld at
some Of the cities on the Mississippi, be-
cause .hey,have railroad facilities which
will extend as far west as Fairfield, Iowa
City and Washington, and thus enable
people from the interior Of the State to
attend the fair. We wonder il these
same railroad facilities would not ena-
Bile those residing in these cities to 60
into the interior Of the State TO attend
the fair? II We have bean correctly in
formed, cars run both ways GA moss Of
these roads, yet one would be led 70 be-
lieve from the prasiug about s'railrsAd
facilities that the cars always run to,
and never from, these cities on the Ms
sissippi. We hope that at the annRal
meeting in January, the directors will
take a common sense view Of the matter,
and fix the point for holding the next
State Fair where it will accommodate
the people of the entire State. These
"Eailrosd facilities" instead Of opera
ting against the west, ought to operate
In her favor. Ii cur eastern friends can
get into the interior Of the State IN half
: days travel, they ought at least 70 be
willing to meet Us Of the west half way,
when 1t viii take as fEOsn four to Rve
days 20 meet them. The directors ought
to purchase or reat for long term at
Least forty acres Of laRd naar Des AIoines
City for the purpose of fair grounds,
and fx the annual meetings Of the fair
st that poipt. That point is as near
central as any point, and in addiHen
viii soon have "railr0Aa faeiliEiss'' in
its favor. If the next fair is held on the
Mississippi, We Of the west will not con-
slider ourselves as invited 10 be in attend
aEee. No reasonable ssa of men would
think Of holding q fair 1T the ,xtrema
eastern portion Of the State, with the
/ expectation that those IN the extreme
west-threa hundred and sixty miles dis
tant, would be IN attendance. If the
fair is gotten up merely to aidsome east
ern city, we say let eaStern people at
tend it. Should the directors decide
upon holding the fair on the Mississippi, -,
We 60 in for making immediate prspa-
ration for holding fair on ths Missouri.
The western slope of Iowa and the east
srn portion Of Nebraska, can get up a
respectable fair. We hare as good
stock-yss, bettar stOok--we can raise
larger Vegetables, more wheat upon an
acre, exhibit larger shanghais, Turkeys
End other fowls, and our horses can oai
tsot, rack or run, snythiRg they have sy.
sr exhibited ct the st&bs Fair, and Il
, our eastern friends won't mset Us bali
way, we 60 in decidedly for getting up Z
fair Of our own, WsWill giTetwo ham
, drsd dollars towards sitting up th'
grounds at this place. Let othRs wht
are fayerably disposed towards he pro,
ieat, send in their names.
A NYw pRAsE IN TEz BRArsAS CAsx.--