The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-26
STATE FAIR PROJECT
ITS PROMOTERS ENCOURAGED OVER IhE OUTLOOK.
Men in All Walks of Life Subscribing For Stock Of Company to Give Annual ExhIDit In
 MOntEOmery.

We feel very much encouraged over the prospects for d successful organi- zation ot the proposed State Falr As sociation to give annual exhibits in Montgomery said M, B. Houghton yesterday.
 MT. Houghton is a member of the committee which has charge of the work of securing subscriptions to the stock company to be organized With a capital stock of $50,0u0. The shares Of stock are sold at $25 each.
 Montgomery men, Mir. Houghton, said. are responding to the call and there seemed little doubt that the capital would be forthcoming.
 1t is proposed to interest every county in the State in. the company.
 Speaking of the movement for q State Fair in Montgomery, the cur rent number of The Southern Farm CT, published in Birmingham, says edi- torially:
 Every State in the Union. of any pretentDn to agriculture or stock breeding, maintains State fair.
 By reason of it's climate, it's water, its Bermuda, Johnson and other pas ture and hay grasses, there Is no State in all America in which a domestic ani- nal can be raised to maturity any cheaper than in Alabama.
 Slowly but certainly the truth of this assertion has become manifest to some of the farm CTS of this State, and more fine horses, registered Jerseys and pure blood bee fcattle are being bred in Alabama now than ever before in its history.
 ''The time for starting a State fair in Alabama Is now ripe 1t nas became q public necessity.
 n men; farmers, land owners and others deepndent upon the soil of Alabama for their support have inaugurated at Montgomery d movement for State fair there. A better point could not have been selected. Montgomery is central, the third city in business inn portance in the State, lheI eIcapital, and Is essentially the metropolis of tho agricultural part of Alabama. A bet ter location for a State fair. could not have been selected.
 Tt Is proposed that the fair be con ducted under the auspices 7of a legally organized corporation and the people of the State are asked to subscribe to stock. IT the bylaws will provide that no considerable amount of the stock may be owned by one person, the investment in the shares of the cor pOration is bound to prove a profitable one.
 ''rhe Southern Farmer confidently believes that State fair held in Ala bama for the next five years will b, worth several million dollars to the agricultural interests of the State This seems perhaps extravagant, but if Is not. A four-year old colt can be matured for $50 to $40 less money in Alabama than even In Tennessee. A beef yearling can be grown hero for very considerably less than anywhere else excepting in the other Gulf States Whenever the attention of the farmer is effectively directed to the manifold advantages of breeding good stock. whenever they sec prize heifers at the fair sell for $100 and standard bred colts sell for several hundred they wik cut down the cotton acreage, plant more pasturage and build more silos.
 '"The Southern aFrmer cordially com mends the State fair undertaking to the business men, land owners and farmers of Alabama With capable management the stock should be an exceedingly profitable investment. If 1t never nays a dividend in cash, the profit to the general welfare of the ag- ricultural Interests will be abundant