Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-13
URGES EXHIBITS
AT STATE FAIR
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN
LOS ANGELES
COUNTY SHOULD COMPETE FOR
VALUABLE PRIZES
More Than $4,000 to Be Given Away
In Premiums, and Gold Medals
Offered for Exceptional
Excellence

, Clark Alberti of Sacramento, for
mer newspaper man, is in the city in
the interests of the state fair, which Is
to open at Sacramento August 20 and
continue for eight days. He expressed
the hope that Los Angeles county
would be well represented at the fair
and carry off some of the valuable
prizes. More than $4,000 will be de-
voted to premiums this year. and gold
medals will be given also for articles
of particular excellence.
For. the best county exhibit the hrst
prize Is $500, the second $500. the tnlrd
$780, and the fourth $3.50, the fifth 800
and the sixth SIS. Beside this. articles
in the county exhibit may be entered
to compete for premiums In other de-
partments.
Mr.. Alberti said: 1.-THE state fair this
year will be bigger and better than
ever before, and the fairs of the last
two or three years have been very
good ones indeed. The large agricul-
tural park recently acquired by the
state has been equipped with new
buildings, stock Enclosures, etc., and
every modern convenience has been
provided. Last year there was an at
tendance of $4,000 persons, which is
substantial Indication of the interest
that Is taken in this great state ex-
position.
.,rhe management is earnestly de-
sirous of having the resources OF the
whole state shown-from Oregon TO
Mexico, and from Nevada to the sea.
and in order to annihilate distance and
give each county an equal opportunity,
will pay the transportation charges on
all exhibits both to and from Sacra-
mento Space and lighting In the big
pavilion are free to exhibitors, and the
liberal premiums offered this year
should prove attractive to such rich
and progressive county as Los An
glees." -is
The state fair constitutes great and
practical object lesson which Is of es-
pecial value to the Southern Califor-
MIA counties, with their boundless re-
sources, for it will attract many thou
sand visitors from the east and else
where who will get their first definite
impression Of the wealth and charac-
ter of the products of this end of the
state from the exhibits at Sacramento.
Mr.. Alberti is also the special rep
resentative of the Alaska-Y Pa
cific exposition, which will be held at
, Seattle June 1 to october is, 1909. He
has made arrangements by which meri-
torious exhibits, IL their nature per-
mits, will be cared Fer by the man.
: agement at the close of the state fair,
taken to the Seattle exposition and in
stalled there next year to the credit of
the county and the person exhibiting
them. At the close of the exhibition
they will be returned to the owners,
all at state expense. This Is an OPP
portunity of making two distinct ex-
hibits at a nominal cost, which the en-
terprising producers of Southern Cali
fornia should be quick to turn to adj
vantage.
1.-THE California state building at
Seattle will be $50 By $50 feet, designed
IN the Spanish style. and will cost $780,
600. 1t win be the largest and most
attractive state building on the ex-
position grounds, and an object of
pride to all Californians. The Seattle
exposition is to open June / and close
October Is, next year, and I shall ex-
pect to see Los Angeles county take
a prominent place there as well as at
Sacramento" says Mr.. Albert.
The exhibits at the state fair are
divided into twelve classes as follows:
First, live stock; second, machinery.
implements, ETC.; third, textile fabrics
(mill and domestic products); fourth,
mechanical products and California in
ventions, designs, ETC.; fifth. dairy
products and dairy utensils; sixth. hor-
ticultural products; seventh. yiticul-
ture, ETC.; eighth, agricultural prod
ucts; ninth, bees and honey, tenth, fer
tilizers; eleventh, beverages; twelfth,
prizes for school work.