The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-18
A MON I ANA STATE FAIR
Papers Incorporating the Asso-
citation Filed.
IT'S A GREAT ENTERPRISE
The Fair Is to Be Held Annually at Butte.
Competitive Mechanical and Elec-
trical Displays-MeansM Much
for the State.

Another great enterprise is about to
be launched. one in which not alone
Nj ntana il interested, but the Pacific
Northwest as we'll 1t has passed the
embryonic stage and is now presentable
to the public. 1t is the incorporation
of the Montana State Fair association,
articles of which have been filed WITH
the secretary, of state and the clerk
and recorder of Silver Bow county
The capital stock is $4,000, assessable
and fully subscribed. The objects for
which the company is formed are as
follows:
For the encouragement Of agriculture
and horticulture in the state Of Mon
tana; the exhibition of machinery and
agricultural implements; the exhibition
of all farm products, stocks, fruits, veg
etables, poultry and floral exhibits; for
the exhibition of all metal and mineral
and mining machinery and mining APP
planes; the exhibition of all fine art
painting, cut-glass. dlinaware, queens
ware. tapestry and all liberal art work;
the exhibition of all electrical machin-
cry and electrical inventions; the con-
Quoting of innocent sports and amuse-
ments, racing, gymnastic and other out
door attractions; to purchase necessary
lands for fair grounds and make neces-
sary improvements thereon; to conduct
an annual state fair at or near Butte
Mont.
The articles conclude: THE name
of the city and county in whioh the
business of the said company shall be
transacted is Butte, Silver Bow county,
state of Montana. The said company
shall the 18th aaU nf
February, 1899, and shall continue in ex-
istence for the term of 20 years. The
number of trustees Wllo shall manage
the concerns Of said company for the
first three months and until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified, shall
be three, and their names and residences
are r. L. Clinton, w. j. Guthrie, P. H.
Regain, all of Butte.
1.-THE capital stock of said company
shall be $50,000 wtlfch shall be divided
into 500 shares of the par value of 500
each, the stock to be asssssable."
To show that the promoters of the
scheme mean business, they have
drafted a bill to be presented to the
legislature at the earliest possible day.
1t reads as follows:
AN act entitled An act granting to
the Montana State Fair association, a
corporation, a franchise for holding and
SohuuStiliS Tic dIlluttl Slhte IdlT Ol IIe
state of Montana for a period of 20
years at or near the city of Butte, in
Silver Bow county, state Of Montana.
BE it enacted by the legislative as
sembly of the state of Montana:
Section /. That there is hereby
granted to the Montana State Fair as
ISOLATION. corporation, created and ex-
listing under the laws of the state of
Montana, the right to hold and conduct
bio C&..,
state of Montana for a period of 20
years: said state fair to be held an
nually at or near the city Of Butte, in
Silver Bow county, state of Montana.
Full power and authority is hereby
granted to said Montana State Fair as
sociation to hold, conduct and manage
said state fair"
In speaking of the enterprise yester-
day with reporter for the Standard,
one of the incorporators said:
I'VE have interviewed many promi-
nent men of the state regarding this
matter, and the consensus of opinion
is overwhelmingly favorable to Butte
as the city in which to hold the annual
fair. Simply because of the fact that
the incorporators are Butte citiZens
should not imply that This city has rail
roaded its entry for the purpose of de-
feating any other city which might
have held a similar scheme in contem-
plation.
1T is our honest belief That the time
has arrived for the organization of Il
state fair association. Montana is capa-
BILE of making exhibits that will draw
attention from every quarter of the
globe. Its mineral display can be made
to be uneXcelled anywhere on earth.
Competitive machinery and electrical
exhibits also can be made superior to
any ever seen. 1t is right here that
machinery and appliances are used. II
is here machinery is Sold and the COM
petitors' display would surely call for
others and so on until the aggregate
exhibit must certainly be enormous. 1t
is the same with other articles Of com
merce. those articles which are SO eX-
tensively used all over Montana AS
soon as the great plants in this part of
the state for the generation of cleo
tricity are completed power can be
transmitted to the fair grounds. where
all the necessary shafts, pulleys and
galloWs will be erected and the ma
chinery connected Herewith.
1.-THE railroads are certainly in posi-
ton to extend influence SO as to favor
ably affect the scheme. This Is rail-
rUs,u center. Transportation facilities
to Butte from every part of the
Northwest are unsurpassed. The peo-
pie now must know this at the fan
grounds. People from the East would
see the cream of the orchards of the
Bitter Root and other Western Mon
tana valleys. This alone would be a
revelation to the thousands who know
Montana only by it's mineral resources
They would also see some of the finest
horses and cattle in the world. They
would also see machinery which they
never dreamed was required in the de-
velopment of the mineral resources OF
| the state and they would see the min
| eral in it's native state and in abund-
| ance and variety, too.
There is more to be said with ref
erenee to some of the other features
| enumerated in the articles of incorpora-
| ton, but on this matter I care not tc
| say nothing until I consult the other
| incorporators. / feel confident, howey-
err, in saying that the enterprise viii
materialize in every detal.'