The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-12
SECRETARY WILSON
on STATE FAIR
MATTER
What Fargo Man Has to Say in
Regard to Suit Brought
Against Grand Forks
Fargo. N. D.. April II. 1907.
Editor OF the Evening Times, Grand

Fargo. N. D.. April IL, 1907.
Editor OF the Evening Times, Grand
Forks. n. ID.
Dear Sir: feel quite sure that
You have made personal attack upon
myself in your issue of April 10 with
out giving the write-up second
thought. You will recollect that the
North Dakota State Fair association
for Fargo. advertised for bids to print
premium list. last summer. that a
representative of your spaper called
upon me and asked If the advertise
ment for bids was ION the square" and
the lowest bidder would do the work.
Your paper underbid its competitors
and your paper printed the premium
list.
In the minds of great many peO-
pie, state fair. commensurate with
the resources of North Dakota. can
only be built in one place. had
nothing to do with the enactment of
paid salary to make for the people Of
the whole state of North Dakota. a
state fair. have no quarrel with the
city of Grand Forks or with any Of
its citizens, as citizens Of the city and
the state. l have a right to demand
of the North Dakota State Fair asso-
citation for Grand Forks that it does
business along the lines laid down for
it in the laws of this state.
If representative of your paper
will sift to the bottom. the matter of
dates, he will find that an arbitration
was agreed to before the officers and
directors Of the County Fair associ-
alton of Barnes county at Valley City,
N. D.. and the result of such arbitra-
ton was not to the liking of the OFF,
GERS of the North Dakota State Fair
association for Grand Forks. The
supreme court of North Dakota is the
highest legal court of arbitration in
the state of North Dakota and this
whole question will be settled by the
honorable court. tE
1t is a practical impossibility to run
two state fair corporations along side
OF each other in the same state with
out conflict. 1t might be possible to
run two state fair corporations in the
same state If each had the right to
hold its fair each year. and 1t might
be possible to run state fair at diff
ferent places in the same state If the
management thereof was placed in the
hands of one corporation. But whether
it would be economy in construction
of permanent improvements to build
extensively at several places is an
other question. Since accepted en-
ployment as secretary for the North
Dakota State Fair association for
Fargo, 1 have found that it costs a
lot of money to build up state fair
grounds with permanent improve
ments such as the state Of North Da-
kota is entitled to have and ! have
found it necessary to know where !
am at, in business and financial
sense, and when the haze that is be-
fore the eyes of many people who
look at this state fair matter from
local stand point, is cleared away,
such will realize that it is best for
every business officer concerned to
know how much money a corporation
is justified in eXpending in this bust
ness undertaking Of making a state
fair for the whole state of North Da-
kota. Neither Grand Forks or Fargo
capitalists wish to buy stock in a cor
poration that has no permanency or
growth in it. Neither state fair cor
poration can sell dollar of stock to
citizens living outside of either Grand
Forks or Cass counties in a corpor-
alton on wheels Respectfully,
-ChaS r Wi1sOn