Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-05-18

DR.. Shaffer, the efficient and well.
known Secretary OF the Iowa State
Agricultural Society, has furnished u
with the Premium List .or its Eight.
teenth Annual Exhibition, which il
to be held this year at Cedar Rapids,
Sept. 11-15. From the pamphlet be.
tore Us We learn the following par.
ticulars:
The Local Committee have select
ed forty ac.es Of ground within one
mile OF the business portion OF the
city, and easily accessible by wagon
road, north, south, east aud west.
Also, the railroad runs within tweh-
ty feet If the ,nciosure. and we have
assurance that . temporary switch
will be put down, enabling parties
from the city to reach the grounds
every few minutes, at . merely nom
inal pric.. The rates Of passage and
dray:gc to aud from the grounds sre
regulated by city ordinance. All
hotels have agreed to charge only
usual rates.
Cedar Rapids is situated On the
Chicago & North-W estern railroad,
267 miles east OF Council Bluffs, and
eighty two miles west OF the Missis-
sippi. The Burlington, Cedar Rap
ids 4 Minnesota railway, completed
from Burlington to Cedsr Falls,
crosses At this place. The Daven-
port 4 st. Paul rsilroad interyects
the Chicago d North w estern at De
Witt, 81 miles east, and the Des
Moines Valley railroad; at Grand
Junction, $50 miles west. There is
also connection with the Chicago,
Rock Island d Pacific railroad, from
Centreville. Fairfield. and Washing
ton, at Columbus, City Junction. aud
with the Chicago & North. w estern
by means OF the Iowa Central rail.
road at MAJ shalItown. The Illinois
Central, from Dubuque and Sioux
City, has connection at Farley, Wat
srloo, Cedar Fails, etc. thus forming
. network, enabling the people to
come from every part Of the State
with facility.
The .:ity contains I 900 inhabitants,
and has ample hotel accommodations;
besides, the Committee on reception
Of visitors will secure, in private
families, it need be, abudance OF room
and comfort for the thousands who
are expected aud hereby cordially
to come.
Special trains will be put on the
roads centering here, enabling people
within . radius Of fifty or sixty miles
to visit the Fair in the morning and
return home the same night.
The grounds are enclosed with
tight board fence, eight feet high.
There are SIX wells OF water, ladies'
AMI every appliance for the
OF q crowd. The track
is forty feet wide, and enclosed with
a stout railing, as are Ill the carriage
ways. Five acres Of ground out
side have been secured tor hitcing
teams. There are among the inn
. G. mmodious amphi-
theater, free to ell; three hundred
horse stalls, two hundred cattle stalls,
wo hundred aud fifty pens for sheep,
and swine, Fine Art hall, Fruit hall,
hall, Officers hall and all
things necessary to protect every
hing on exhibition; and all the im.
are artistica:ly construct
I'd ard arranged, to make the
grounds attractive. and to insure the
highest measure of comfort and salts
faction
All stock breeders, farmers, anil
not only Of Iowa, hut the
people OF Missouri. Illinois. Wiscon
sin, and sister States, can reach the
Fair At greatly reduced rates, and
their special attention is directed to
The enlarged facilities offered by the
railroads tor the transit OF visitors,
of articles and animals tor exhibition.
These inducements should insure
large attendance, as the Society will
spare no efforts to render the exhlbi-
tion one OF the most attractive ever
held ia the northwest.
Copies OF the premium list, or any
desired information will be cheerfully
furnished by any member of the
Board Of Directors, Local Commit
tee, or on application to the Secre.
tary.