The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-10-08
DEsERET STATE !. FAIR !. /. i.

b The fourth annual exhibition in connection
With the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing
Society was held To- the Social Hail. in this city.
on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last. The
event was hailed BY the citizens az q season o.
pleasure and relaxation, and great interest WIS
tsauiiested. ss. 81.
The competition, in many respsc;ss was NOT 80
spirited as heretofore, and the specimens in
various departments Of manufacture not So bu.
mtroas; yet The articles exhibited were generally
Of a hish order, and equal in work and finish TO
those Of previous years. The fruit, flower aud
vegetable show was better and more extensive
than hitherto, and the articles generally Of SUI
peiiot quality and sizs. The entries Of stock
were meagre. and could have been betlsred On
the whole, The exhibition was very cysditabls.
Several visitors from the States expressed them.
selves highly gratlfsd, and declared thai The
exhibition surpassed those they had seen 10 The
east. tzss.s &. NJ, :.#
! Taking our climate and short seasons into con-
sidstation, The products Of The. TsrIltory can
compete with any State in the luton, not ex.
.cepting California, though much labor and all
.tention Is required. Fl .... !: 5;s< r.
Apples, peaches, spricots, pears, plums, wal.
nuts, grapes, were in great variety The grapes
by Ex,Govsrnor Young and Mr.. W G. Staine.
were large, plump and excellent in taste. A.
Darlington, ss ever, obtained the prize FOR his
Large and delicious peaches. Mr. WoodrutF,S
variety Of apples were magnificent, and were
equaIled by II. G. KlmbslI's choicest, Mr.. ion.
Pugmire, jun.,s fine seedlings, and Mr.. J. Nebs.
ker's faForites, Mr.. S. w. Richards gave !
sample Of excellent pears Green gage piums
raised by Mr.. W. c.. Staines were a wonder, and
other specimens BY Nj. john Taylor, with twin
,plums from Provo, made many q month wetst.
We noticed some good walnnts raised il. Ex.
Governor Young's garden, and some fIe English
walnats and exesilent plums raised by Mr..
Charles Lambert ,zz;:=5 E
There was a choice show OF tiowers---dahIias.
geranlans, stocks, sster, seg plants, Ice plants,
&e,s raised from the seed BY Mr.. C. H. oiphant,
Mr.. staines, Bishop Hunter and Others.
There were very large and good cabbagss
from Prest. Young's garden. Mr. G d. Watt
competed favorably with bis choice ones; every
large cabbage had Ave or six perfect small cab.
bages growing from It's sides, RI -:
Mr.. StaInes contributed some fine eauIiHowsrs
also rich celery fset long and IL inches in cir,
eppfefence round the bunch, and iins rhubarb
or pie plant. :, i,.'.7 - ~. -
Sqlashes, beets, carrots, onions and potatoe
were particularly large and good. There VIA
corn Of various kindsj and also sugar cane o
sorghum sacre, beets, carrots and potatOe
grown by Mr.. w. C. Dunbar, on the bench, il
the 20th Ward, showed fagorabIy. He hs
raised very good crops there this year. ~ =.
There WAS . squash 100 lbs weight, a radisI
by l.. Savage Is lbs. weight, and melon welsh
Ing 40 lbs. BY Mr.. A. p. Stone Of Ogden. Nj
G. D. Wait presented a sack Of Hungarian eras
seed, Of a very fine kind, weighing Sc lbs 10 ID,
bushsL We bslIeye that the beet seen in Mas
sachusetts, which was considered superior
/ weighed - lbs to the buiheL Gen. C. c. Rieh'
Australian wheat weighed IS lbs. to the bushsI
Mr.. R. W. Reeve had some giant rye, which vii
average from 10 to 80 Bushels per acre, from
] English seed. ....