The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1905-09-19
LOOKS GOOD
FOR THE FAIR
DISPLAYS IN ALL LINES NOW
COMING IN.
SCORES OF HORSES HERE
Meritorious Exhibits Will Be Seen In
Agricultural Department-New
Farmers Great Showing.
From Mondays Daily.

Everything in and around the city
is taking on the appearance of fair
week, and the prediction that this
week would bring one of the biggest
crowds to Billings that it ever enter
tanned bids fair to be fulfilled.
AS early as Saturday night people
began pouring into the city and al
ready the hotels, restaurants and |
rooming houses are thronged with a
stream of guests. Fellows who have |
something to sell, men who do fancy |
card work, the picture machine men,
and in fact, every kind of game"
is already represented and there is
no trouble to get rid of your money,
whatever
At the fair grounds things are bust
ling Messrs. North and O'Donnell,
who not only have charge of the agri-
cultural and fruit exhibits, but who
have worked up a good exhibit in the
way of thoroughbred ring stock, are
busily engaged in receiving consign-
ments of products which they are
| listing and placing in the building de-
voted to that branch of the exhibition.
The people of this city will undoubt-
edly have the opportunity of seeing
the very finest display of soil products
this year that was ever shown at a
Billings fair.
Fine Bench Display.
| The new farmers on the Billings
bench will be represented
by numerous displays. One of them
is already on the ground and it is a
wonder. James O'Brien, whose 80
acre ranch is located on Eight-Mile
creek on the bench, came in this
morning with a hayrack loaded with
marvellous collection of vegetables.
Mr.. O'Brien has been a miner all of
his life, but last winter he concluded
that he would quit delving for wealth
beneath the earth's surface and try
his hand at "panning" on top. He
bought 80 acres at $35 per acre of the
Billings Land & Irrigation company
and today his farm is worth $75 per
acre. Here is lst of the stuff he
brought in this morning: Three pump
kins, all whoppers; two golden squash,
three water melons, six rutabagas,
six manglewurtzels, six turnlps, three
table beets, four heads of cabbage, one
of them weighing not less than 20
pounds and all hard and sound heads,
punches of onions as large as cocoa
nut, a box of fine tomatoes, two per-
feet heads of caulifower, three musk
RHeNANS0'
flint corn fully matured, winter rad
ishes, late potatoes as fine as Colorado
or any other state ever produced, and
sunflowers galore. When the fact is
borne in mind that the ground on
which this collection of products was
raised was plowed for the first time
since the first of March, that less than
year ago it was in the center OF
trackless waste, almost covered with
sage brush and cactus and peopled
with prairie dogs, the marvellous fea-
lures of the exhibit may be compre-
hended.
Many Horses Are Here.
Someone said this morning, let the
e fair go on Stewart Polk is here with
his 'hosses'" Sure enough, Polk ar
rived last night from the west ana
j, his string of runners is stabbed on the
: grounds. 1t includes this year the
peerless Nanon, Abydos and Prue-
\ wood, who were here last year, and
Golden Ivy, a new one that Mr.. Polk
picked up on the coast. In addition
there are about SO other fast horses
on the grounds and more will be in to-
night and tomorrow. Among them are
the following owners and horses
Steve Ballenger of Billings has
string of about 10 horses, all runners.
II They are owned by various parties,
but Mr.. Ballenger is managing them
\, William Lorette of Helena is mere
with Ethelmont, a runner.
r, Bowman of San Francisco has
entered Fancher for the running
/ R. S. Sampson of Seattle has M. ]
Shelley. a runner, on the grounds.
Doctor Swallow of Red Lodge has
Rlackboy, a PAGER, and Billy Cassidy
a trotter, with which he expects te
null in some of the money.
| Charles Bell of Spokane has May
bell, fast runner.
Lee Ewing of Los Angeles is here
J with May Hawkins, a fast running
= mare.
Il J. r. Simonton of Bridger arrived
yesterday with Babe, runner:
S Charles Miller of Red Lodge brough
= in Flammeau, horse that took con
r siderable part of the money at tn'
s. Red Lodge fair last week.
John Johnson has three good horse
q on the grounds. They are Robbins
:. Jnlia G. and Kittie Mack. The las
= named animal is said to be a favorlt
q among the talent and will be in tn
81 big running events.
= ID. Betson of North Dakota has
q fast PAGER, Prince Vail, on tn
- grounds. ~,
e Wilkes, a star actor in pacing events
~ r. l.. Fenton of, st. Paul has Ma
I: w, a fast PAGER.