The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-14
STATE FAIR IDEAS.

/ Editor Salt Lake Herald:
| Deep Creek, May 9-It is but a few
months until state fair time. Much is to
/ be done or should be done. Much has
/ been said about the grounds being too
small. They would not be too small if
they had been properly arranged. That
4 big pile OF brick called the main building
should have been built on the west side,
i near the sidewalk, one story-light, fire.
proof and cOmmOdiOus-fOr public gather
/ lngs, a kind of town hail." that would
/ have brought in revenue.
/ Those ungainly cattle sheds should not
! nave been built, but with the same out
/ lay there could have been built as good
/ stables as other state fair grounds have
! A show ring should have been built in
| the center, with the grand stand at the
/ south end, with a drive the length of
, the block to show roadsters, which would
/ have been about an eighth of a mile.
/ The stable and pens could have been put
/ on the west side.
/ But there is no use crying over split
milk. The mistake was made, much
! money has been misspent and wasted and
there is but little to show for it. Last
! years show was an exception. and it was
] a good one. What we want now is young,
progressive, Up-tO-date business men to
1 direct the fairs Of the future.
As the present grounds have been
/ spoiled and their usefulness as a, fair
ground has been destroyed, we had bet
ter go back to the ground that the state
owns for the society and begin anew.
I " III proper dEEdtSCUl6ULS there Will DC
ample room. There is a half-mile track
/ equal to the best In the United States
/ already made. All the buildings can be
placed even with the sidewalks, which
will help TO enclose the grounds, and give
/ room.
The present grounds have been forfeited
/ to the city by non-perfOrmance of con-
/ tract by the society. The best thing to
do with the buildings is to take all down
! that can be and sell the rest to the High
school The brick building could be re-
/ modelled and would be just the place for
a high school The block could be sur
rounded by an evergreen fence, a few
more trees set out and a few platS with
| flowers and il would be an ideal place.
| With the money thus obtained the society
! could erect many buildings for the fair
grounds. The buildings should be only
one story. Going up and down stairs
takes too much time and it is incOn-
| Yenient.
The buildings should be as near fire.
proof as pOsSible-ballOOn buildings, if
you please, as they are only used one
week out of the year, and then in fair
weather.
What we need is an intermountain fair
ground, with an intermountain fair held
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and
| Nevada to take part. 1t would help to
make this intermountain country one
country with common interests The
Stockmen would come together and pur-
chase from each other, and who would
be more benefited than the state Of
Utah? I have advocated this in past
/ years but | was met with the question,
I Who wants to give other states the bene-
fits of our premiums? This is a narrow
/ track view that has prevailed too much
! in the past. Let US get out of it.
/ Let US have another fair this fall as we
had last year, on the present grounds,
and then move to the old track and in
vite the world to come and see and COM
we hold fairs for the good of the state
and for the benefit of the present and the
future generations. There is no lesson to
| learn from a Punch and judy show or
from a jumping dog. But some directors
say we must make 1t pay. The child is
attracted by the foolish side shows and
he goes home, having seen the greatest
jumping dog on earth. But he has not
seen the best horse or COW. Neither has
he seen the farm machinery and products.
All of which he viii have to deal with
2 in the future. A farmer comes aid brings
his children hundreds of miles to see the
: fair, and their attention is drawn to the
gimcrack shows and they go home none
the wiser. none the better for having
been to the fair. Please do away with
this foolish part. The profit is to the
young and those that want to learn. The
state is amply able to pay and the peO-
DIE are more than willing that the state
should pay the expense, because 1t all
comes back in the increased wealth and
, taxes.
one on the north side of the block, and
remove those small pens This would
give a drive from the grand stand to
2 | the north end un to the Sheds to show
+ the roadsters. 1t would be but a small
cost to make the change and it would give
better satisfaction to the public.
II I understand the object of our fair
1t is to encourage competition. The best
| gold, silver, lead or copper ore Will not
produce any rivalry OF cause anyone tC
| produce an ounce more. The directors
| ought TO invite all the mining men to con
tribute of their best specimens to, the
fair, put them into show cases and have
them on exhibition so that strangers en-
] tering our gates viii see at glance the
, | states great wealth, and we will be pre-
pared TO send to the st. Louis worlds fail
a greater showing than any other noun
2 tain state.
There might be held country fairs in the
following places to advantage: Cache
l Bear Lake and that upper country, takins
in the lower end Of Idaho; Box Elder
, Weber, Davis and Summit; Utah. Wa
l satch, Tooele and those counties lyins
z east; Sanpete. Sewer, Juab and those
! counties lying southeast; MIIard, Beaver
and all the rest of the counties south
n / These county fairs could be held just be
fore the state fair, to which the bes
= products could be brought, with the ad
{ / vantage of getting the best exhibits tina
had taken premiums.
one word for the horses. For man,
{ years the breeding of horses has no
paid and the industry has been neglected
until now there is a scarcity in all kind.
r / OF good horses, and general demand fo
4 / good drivers, with no supply. The rang,
l horse is a thing of the past. that is t,
4 say, the large herds are. The farmer
must become the horse raiser hereafter
He can DO no better than have all hi
work teams mares. Let them be bred s,
q as to have the colt come III the winter
q say February and March, but he mus
{ have good stables. Then he could skip Il
the last of May and June. AT that tim
the most OF the work would be over an'
;, the grass strong, so the mothers wouis
Il have plenty Of milk. The early colt wi
!, feed on the young grass and will no
want so much nourishment from tn
mothers. If the farmers win SOW III
= bitches, fence corners and all Tie vast
r places in their fields with Kentucky blu
grass or any other grass, where nov
= weeds grow, they viii be able TO rails
= many colts where they raise nothing now
. The eastern horse growers will tell yo
that it costs them $50 to produce a Agar
. old horse I viii guarantee to the ma
that viii produce a good driver or bii
team horse that he viii find good sal
s for 1t hereafter. II. ,. FAUST.