Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-06

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Thousands upon thousands of happy
visitors are making the state fair TINS
year a banner event In utah's history.
Today is Utah county day and the
prospects are even better for NAM
moth attendance than they were on
the record breaking Weber county daS.
Now that conference mas s.hr'eu, n,nny
new faces from points atar are seen
on the ground and old and young pro-
nounce the fair the best they have yet
seen. ,
The Judges are daily completing
their prize awards and interesting
events of ever changing variety make
the fair one round Of instruction and
pleasure.
When the gates open Friday morning,
the fair grounds will be given over to
the Salt Lake public school children.
In the evening Shetland pony and Il
donkey will be given away to the boy
or girl with the lucky number. Chil-
dren's day is one of tho big attractions
during the fair. and thousands of par
ents will spend the day taking their
children through the livestock eXhtb-
its. and to see the various attractions
The management has made special mr.
rangement to take care OF the throngs
of children who will visit the fair.
School children 1900 strong will be
In attendance Mt the state fair tomor-
row, says Superintendent d.. II. Chris-
Jensen Of the city schools. They Will
practically own the grounds for the day
and will absorb through every pore OF
their bodies Information that they
could not possibly obtain from any
other source. The admission will be 10
cents to all school children, which In
cludes High school students, and this
will be inducencnt enough to attract
f; a banner crowd. Y
/ Supt. Christensen said this morning
that the schools We're appreciativc of the
great benefit to be derived by school
children by attendance, at the state fair.
During the school year the pupils study
not seen. The state fair gives them
an opportunity Of obtaining concrete
information.
Some OF the classes in the public
schools are making n speciality In GER
tain class work In the study OF fruits
and these classes, while paying atten.
ton ito all the exhibits. will specialize
in their attention to the fruits display
ed. Later they will write compositions
on their observations. Others Of the
pupils are more particularly interested
in the mineral exhibits. or the farm
products or the manufacturing displays
In all cases compositions will be writ
ten on the special features in which
the children are interested.
FLAX GROWERS ORGANIZE.
One small sheath of flax In the cx-
| hibit of William Wright of Pennington
in the horticultural building has re-
suited In the launching of Il flax grow
ing and milling company with every
promise of prosperity j. II. Riley
CHANGED by the exhibit saw the sheath
of flax, found out that 1t could be
grown almost as successfully rs wheat
In Utah, and the financing of tho Utah
Flax Growing & Milling company was
the result, Gov. Cutler was interested.
and he with others gave support to-
wards the immediate manufacture of
flaxseed products. One man, donated
10 acres OF land If tho factory would
be built on his ground, and thus In two
DAYS a future asset to the state was
formed.
For como time the Utah Flax Grow
ing & Milling company has existed as
an experimental corporation, the orig
Inal purpose of the company being to
conduct small experiment farms In diff
ferent counties of the state In order
10 demonstrate that fax seed could
be grown successfully In Utah-hnd
subsequently to contract with the
farmers for the growing OF Sutiic,ent
acreage to supply a linseed oil and oil
cake mill. u
evidence has accumulated, however.
that fax for seed can DO grown In Utah
ms we'll rs fax for fibre, and therefore
the company propose the building of
not only an oil mill but scutching. tow
and linen mills and to procure cxperi-'
enccd men to establish a linoleum fac
tory.
Among those who arc thoroughly
convinced that fax can be grown sue
cessfully or, a commercial basis in Utah
are the following: John A, Widtsoe
president of the Agricultural collegc;!
Prof. u. D. Ball of the same college.
William A.. Newman. and others.
Speaking of the year 1862 In Utah,
Edward Cox says: II never saw bet
ter flax seed or one more in oil than
that raised by the farmers OF this val
ley"