The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-17
STARTING THE FAIR.
The Exhibition of 1889 to Far
SurpasS All Previous Shows.
ALL is ON TIME AND ON DECK.
Spicy Talk of Colonel Winder---Good Feelings
Iof the Citizens---First Installment
of Special Premiums.

1.-THE territorial fair is next Octoberl"
Eyes"
''Well, this is only March. Aren't you
starting in with your preparations rather
early?"
mot bit of it." replied President John
R. Winder, of the Deseret Agricultural and
Manufacturing society, yesterday. "The
fact is we are on time this year, but not a
day too soon. Our supervisors are at work
preparing the premium list, and we expect
it will be ready for the printer in very
short time. Then the people may know
what they are expected to compete for, and
they will have plenty of time to prepare
their exhibits. Last year, owing to a
variety of drawbacks, the premium
list was terribly delayed, and the
exhibition, successful as it was,
showed haste and lack of care.
BY thus taking time by the forelockSwe
not only make it easier for the board who
have the management of the fair, but we
make it easier for exhibitors and insure a
better class of exhibits. l shall be greatly
mistaken if the coming fair does not eclipse
anything of the kind ever attempted in
Utah or the surrounding territories, if it
does not surprise and astonish even its
friends. l judge this from the immense
interest being evinced in regard to it
already. You know once upon time, when
the society held a fair, if the board did not
go into mans orchard and pick his fruit
for him and carry it to the fair the exhibit
ton would languish and in all probability
would be failure. There you needn't
laugh: that is literally true, sir The mem
beers of the old board will bear me out in
the statement that we did that, and l re-
member well how we always had to borrow
our art exhibition off the walls of our we'll
TODD citizens. But, the times have
changed. Last year was the beginning of
new fair era; and this year, as stated,
the prospects Fare great for an event that
will be credit to US, and who can calcula. e
the amount of good it will doc L tell you,
the impetus which these exhibitions give to
our home industries is something that PEG
pie as rule do not correctly estimate; but
that it abundantly pays all the trouble and
all the expense of the undertaking / am con-
WINGED. Our annual fairs 1--WE intend to
hold them annually hereafter) will be one
of the most powerful agencies for bringing
Utah producers into prominence that can be
imagined. Let them once get established,
and let their fame travel abroad, and it will
be found that tourists who contemplate
visit to Utah will be found pOStponing their
trip till about the time of the fair. In agrl-
cultural pursuits our territory is really very
far in advance of her sisters, but in the
past she has not perhaps put her foot for
ward because of a lack Of encouragement.
In times gone by l have seen at
exhibitions of our society which were
gotten up without any particular
pains and in great haste, men of prominence
from abroad who expressed the greatest
at the excellence and divers
ity of the display. l may be an enthusiast
on the subject, but if we want to advance
in the industrial arts know the holding of
annual fairs will facilitate our progress,
not only by the interchange of ideas and the
diffusion of knowledge but by the exciting
of competition and the life OF trade which
follows. Don't you believe the last fair
was the means of impelling the farmer 10
raise better crops, the breeder to improve
his live stock, the manufacturer to make
better articles! l do; and this year l look to
see a wholesome growth in all the material
interests of the territory. Already we are
in receipt of number of special premiums
and no one factor connected with past ex-
hibitions has contributed more to their sue
cess than the same special premiums.
Following is a partial list of the offers to
date, with expressions of the donors con-
corning the fair At the head of the list is
Colonel Winder himself, who evidently be
lieYes in practicing what he breaches:
SEVENTY FIVE DOLLAR CALF
Ibeg to offer as special premium, pure bred
Jersey or Holstein calf, valued at SO, the pur-
poSV - 10 H'---0N JOHN R. WINDER.
A MOVING MACHINE.
The Coop. Wagon and Machine company come
to the front with Walter a. Wood moving ma
chine the competition to be hereafter designated.
A FAUITLEsS HEATER,
The Utah Stove and Hardware company, sue
cessors to P. w. Madsen Co. and Frank W.
Tenninrs, do not vet specify what they desire the
Competition to comprise but they throw IN a
FauitIess heater just to encourage the fair.
COLD CASH.
George Arbogast goes down in his jeans for 70
cash and leaves it to the directors as to who
shall walk away with 1t.
BETTER THAN LAST YEAR.
Il shall take pleasure in either duplicating my
premium of last year $50 for the best cheese
made in Utah, or doing better"
S. c. EWING, Proprietor Cullen Hotel