Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-09-26

When the band played America
Friday afternoon the second annual
fair of the Elmore County Fair
Association passed into history.
Another bright page had been added
to the book of industrial progress
treating of the three great counties
of Southern Idaho, Elmore, Blaine
and Owyhee counties, the re-
sources and advantages of which
tn c fair was intended to advertise
and demonstrate.
With better organization,
greater facilities and disposition
onthe part of the residents of the
three counties to lend assistance,
the directors were enabled this
year to create an industrial ex-
position that has been the pride of
the loyal residents of this great and
growing section of Idaho and which
in the future.
The fair was a success from star /
to finish, except possibly from a fiji
nancial point of view, for at the
time of going to press it could not
be asccrtaincd exactly how the as
sociation stood, but it is question:
able if the receipts, donations and
appropriations will make ends meet.
In one sense the fair was too big for
the country from which it must
needs draw support. The attend
ance throughout the week has
shown the great interest taken by
the people OF this section. The at
tendance throughout the week has
been satisfactory and the capacity
of the big grandstand at the race
track was tested to its full capac-
ity. That the fair was greater
than the present population of this
section would seem to Justify is a
good fault rather than a bad one.
The program of the week was an
attractive one The races were all
that they were advertised to be.
Horses were here from nearly all
the inter-mountain states, and the
exciting. Not the least of the sights,
especially to the visitors from the
east, was the presence of over 200
Indians from Duck Valley rescrva-
tion and these latter added much
10 the variety of the occasion,
clad as they were in the bright
rainmcnt SO characteristic of their
part in the program and their
horses carried away many of the
purses offered. The part these
natives of the desert took in the
representation Of an old time stage
hold-up was realistic in the cx-
trcme. This exhibition concluded
each days program and portrayed
faithfn nlly the manner in which e
stage coach of the early days was
held up by the then savage Indians
and rescued by the timely appear
ance of band of pioneers and cow
boys. The old stage coach used
was one that has rolled many &
weary mile across the deserts oi
Idaho, and which has been in more
than one affray similar to the one
re-enactcd on the fair grounds.
This attraction was originated and
put ON under the direction of w.
II. Dudley and was one of the hits
of the fair
Ia contrast to this "Reminiscences
OF the pioneer days was th> chariot
race, bit of carnival play snatched
from the days of ancient Rome.
Charioteers Howard and Colthorp
contested for supremacy in this ex-
citing sport during each of three
days of the fair, with Coithorp cap
turing two heats and being declared
winner 1t is certain that none
of the old Romans displayed more
nerve than was shown by the con-
tcstarts in this event And the
race track at Rome never felt the
hoofs of fleeter horses. All our
exhibition lacked to make it a
pageant of the olden times was
the presence of Nero himself.
The great relay race, a contest
of endurance on the part of horses
and riders was participated in by
Tate, the famous cowboy rider of
Southern Idaho and an Indian from
Duck Valley. Five miles a day
were ridden with a change of