The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-10-15

Co. Parlin & Orendorff, Fairbanks
Morse, Mitchell, Lewis & Staver and
a great many other manufacturers and
jobbers made extensive exhibits.
Automobiles of many varieties were
shown in the room under the grand
stand and it was reported that many
sales to farmers we're made during
the fair.
The race track is only a half mile
course, and necessarily the turns are
too abrupt to suit the vim and ambi-
ton Of the horse men as we'll as the
automobile racers. yet many inter
esting races we're pulled of. Motor
cycle races and automobile races we're
made in various ways to demonstrate
the quick starting and stopping as
we'll as speed and power OF the various
machines. The side shows were
numerous, the best OF these being
big Indian pow WOW. In the evening
an exhibition OF tumbling, juggling,
boxing and various forms Of vaude-
Vile performance was given In front
Of the grand stand. Each evening
also sham battle was put on and ably
presented by nearly four hundred
Indians and white people acting as
soldiers and civilians. rhis was ac-
companied by grand display OF fire
works as an appropriate setting.
The one big special attraction OF
the fair was the daily flights OF the
Curtis byplane. Every day, the wealth
or permitting j. q. Mars made two
or three flights circling around the
race course at from two thousand to
three thousand i've hundred feet. Z.
N. Cosgrove, secretary Of the Min
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II. Cosgrove, secretary Of the Inter
state fair, was the first passenger to
ride in the aeroplane in Spokane.
Sec. Robt. II. Cosgrove and Pres.
j. L. Smith are to be congratulated
on the success of their work. They
promise next year to have some new
buildings and to fill in many Of the
places which a close critic OF fairs
might find remissness.
Everyone commended it as being the
best fair ever held in the Pacific
Northwest.
OVERLOOK THE FARMERS
The meeting of agricultural college
professors, railroad men, stOckyard
men and news paper writer's held at
the Spokane Chamber Of Commerce,
during the Interstate fair, held for
the purpose Of promoting more hog
raising was attended by goodly
number of those who came to talk 1T
over. Mr.. Foster, the Berkshire
breeder, offers the suggestion that
they neglected to invite the important
factor, the farmer. He said possibly
they, the parties invited, planned to
90 into the hog business themselves.
If so, l am going to quit be-
cause l cannot compete with rich
railroad men and stockyard men and
scientific newspapers and professors.
If they, the railroads and express
companies will make rate 80 that L
may show at the fairs or ship to
purchaser without having the freight
charges aggregate as much as my hogs
are worth, / believe we will have no
trouble in promoting more pork
raising"
An interesting meeting was held.
The following resolutions we're passed:
That the railroads be urged to con-
tinue their demonstration trains and
in them specialize on the industry.
That agricultural colleges bulletin
their hog raising experiments.
That the press be asked to maintain
a continuous campaign for Increased
hog production.
That clearing house be maintained
for disseminating information to In
dividuals, organizations and the
general public with view to con-