The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-12
OUR HELENA LETTER.
Evldences Of Helena's Prosperitv
and Stability.
The Fair Grounds and What was
Seen There.
The Stock Department. and Finely
Bred Animals,

3 The Stock Department and Finely
Bred Animals.
Races, Notes, ETC., Etc.
Special Correspondence of the MINER.
HELENA, Sept. s.
The fourteenth annual fair of the
!. M. A. NJ. and M. A. will be recorded
as b most successful one, financial
~ and otherwise, eve held in Mon
tana. The weather haa been all that
could be desired; the attendance un-
usually large; the exhibits creditable
in nearly all the departments; the
races noted for fast time, and
the decision of the judges,
In the main, correct and satisfactory.
The association can have no cause to
regret selecting the early part Of Sep
TENDER ia which to hold the fair, and
will probably profit by the expert
ence of the past and hold all future
fairs before the autumn equinox.
The C of the fair is largely due
to the completion of the Northern
Pacific railroad through the territory.
thus affordlng speedy and comforta-
BILE transportation to hundreds from
the eastern and western portions of
Montana, to and from Helena. who
under the conditions existing a year
agc would not have been present.
Miles City, Billings. Livingston,
Bozeman and other points on
the line of the road,
were we'll represented, as were
Beaverhcad county, Butte, Deer
Lodge and Missoula. All strangers
to the Capital City expressed sur
prise at the evidence of prosperity |
and stability they witnessed there,
while the old-timers who had not Wis
tied it for the past two or three e
were equally surprised to see the
number and character of solid build
ings standing In the place formerly
occupied by iaferior wooden struct-
ures.
THE FAIR GROUNDS.
The attendance yesterday and to.
day developed the fact that the seat
ing capacity OF the grand stand is too
limited to meet the demands that will
be made upon it in the future.
On Friday, especially, there were
hundreds who could not find seats
anywhere on the grounds, every
available space being occupied even
to the top Of, the building
itself. One notable feature of
that days attendance was the
numoer of ladies present, nearly one
half Of the grand stand being occu-
pied by them besides the large num-
Der that viewed the track from the
Floral Hall,
A NEW DEPARTMENT.
One of the most interesting de-
uron the ground was the 4.
new one devoted to the display of
goods by the business men of the city.
Nearly every limo of home and for !
eign industries was represented there.
The exhibits were made in old Ag-
ricultural Hall beneath Floral !
Hall, the agricultural display
being made in a large round tent, !
especially for the purpose. t
Mention has already been made of .
the exhibits in this department, by t
your correspondent, and he would
now only add that they were consid- G
cred the best ever made in the terri !
tory, Notwithstanding the fact that
hey were gathered while a full
month of the growing season was
till before the most of them.
THE STOCK DEPARTMENT.. -
Tbs fact that Montana possesses n
he important ssentials-climate and l
yrasses-necessary to the perfect de- a
of all classes of stock, Fl
in particular, is evidenced by c
he magnificent exhibits in this de- 1
,artmeut at the fair grounds, and t.
n the stables of the flyers. Many of F
he Montana raised and Montana Il
,red two and three year Odds would v
lot suffer in comparison with the 2
,est blood found in the famous blue n
,rass regions of Kentucky. Messrs. fl
and Clark, Raymond Bros., v
lard, Huadley and Preuitt, Larabie. n
and others showed animals Ct
pom the track and the ring that cl
you'd command the blue ribbons in o.
ny fair in the east Huntly and o.
lark had nearly thirty no ses from Ia
heir magnificent farm Oh the Mis-
ouri on exhibition, among them b,
he promising trotters, Ben Lo- o,
,ond and Kentucky Vol
nteer. The Raymond Bros.
out their -proud-stepping,
.st t:otting Belmont that scooped
le field in his class and several Of th
is get that carried away blue and CT
I'd ribbons. Vaughn's Great West e.
m, Bakers Sunday, Hundley and r
reuitt's Lady Preuitt, Scott's Ran tn
zero. Larabie's Maxim and other RI
inners from his stud, Gilt and II
hady, from other stables, all COM .r
rised a galaxy of stars Of herseftsh ~
lat is seldom equalled and never ex- I'LL
lied at any other Territorial Fair III
4 the continent. It was the best III
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