The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-09
UTAH,s PAIRS.
Past, Present and Future.

To the Salt Lake Herald:
As soon os one fair is over it is time to
commence preparing for another. The
farmer mas 10 prepare the soil Inc
OrchQrdist has to trim his trees The
hOrseman has but a year to prepare ami
train his colts. The cowman has but a
few months to prepare his cattle for The
show. The hog and sheepmen can take
time by the fOrelocz and fatten their
show stock From the few chickens and
turkeys exhibited this year thought per
haps that many were holding back 10
come next year / have advocated an
inteTmountain fair for Utah these many
years. Invite Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,
Colorado, Arizona Nevada and CaIfOr-
MIA. Let them bring their best stock and
compete They will sell 10 us and we To-
them The chances are that we viii get
the best of the bargain. 1t VIII bring the
people of those states to Salt Lake, and
they viii make all kinds of purchases
horses, cattle, sheep. swine, houses, land
and store goods Suppose they do get
away with a few premiums. Idaho get
away with the cup, and the orchard men
of Utah will be benefited thereby.
When I first built a racetraCk j invited
every man in-the United States to come.
trOt and run their horses and welcome to
all. The races at the last fair were free
for ali, and they were good. The same re
suits win follows the intermOuntain fair
Our race track is one of the best half
mile tracks I'm the world, and these in
termOuntain states will produce their fast
horses. Only give them time The eli
mate and track are all right was at
the lrSt talr IN UIah. and / have attend
ed the last, travelling about $50 miles TO
see IL. The races were good half mile
i'm 1905 is hard to beat 1t made me look
back 20 when we used 10 trOt on our
track Mormon Chief was the first horse
that made his mile in 2:35 Budd Dobla
drove Goldsmith Maid a mile in 2:23 on
the present track. The cattle were good;
indeed, fine; a great Improvement on the
past, but there We're too many empty
stalls. The horses were the best I have
ever seen at any fair in Utah or else
where; The sheep were good. but there
should have been more. The hog was
an Improvement on previous fairs. The
fish showed what has and can be done
IN the future. in the little shanty con-
tanning the fruit and vegetables was a
poor showing / should hope that bet
ter building and a better showing will
be made i'm the future.
What can 1 say about the Midway
In the first place / would say If j were
governor Wells. for every director that
had hand in 1t or gave his consent to
hand in his resignation, so that he could
appoint someone that had Utah's interest
az heart and exhibit Utah's products.
Where was the machinery Instead. we
mad trappage- Negro Decent Ministries;
a girl eating mud. These are very in
structive and Interesting for a farmer to
bring his children to see. / hope the gov
ernor viii put his veto on any more mud
eating and Midway fake business. Let
that space be given to machinery. manu-
featuring and home made business The
fairs are not what they should be for
the many years they nave been running
and the backing they have had from the
people, as Utah people are with the state
to back with the taxes. There is a fault,
and I would rather see some director
whose fault 1t is resign than to see
Jtah's best interests drag. When we or
ganiZed. over forty years ago. the Utah
fair was named Agricultural & Manufac-
turing. society and there has not been a
year since but there was more machinery
on the ground than this year. Not
wheel turned there by the merry-gO-
round. You directors say that it is not
your fault that things are as they. are.
Well, If L was a director and things hung
as they now DO, / would resign and let
someone else try Ii. Utah spends thou
sands OF dollars annually on the Agri-
cultural college. and il is a great success.
The farmer is benefited thereby and the
stock man IS also benefited IN fact the
college is a great help to the state, and
the fair should be the ground where we
could meet and make a showing of Its
products and the products of eduC2 ton.
The inventions Of machinery and manu-
featuring should be there. The fair
grounds should hum with enterprise. in
VcnCOns- IT should be show enough with
out the fakes TO detract the young peO-
pie from the great lessons that ii has in
store for them. The fair should be an
educator and not q money extractor The
fair is now I'm the hands Of the governor
and the legislators Of this state. The gov
ernOr appoints the directors for the fair
and the legislature aDprOpriates the
money and there is no occasion TO get In
all the rimcraCKs and fakes in the land
to enuce neoplc to be fleeced out of their
money The price Of admission was put
low on purpose so that the farmer could
bring as many Of his children as his purse
would allow. and the many get the bene-
fit from the fairs. I have not met with
a single man yet who objects TO some Of
which win benefit and increase the taxes
again Of the state. II. ]. FAUST.