Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-30
STRENUOSITY
At STATE FAIR
Army OF Workmen Getting Ready
For Big Show Next
Week.
FEATURES FOR THIS YEAR
Novel Special Exhibits Are Arriving
Aud Rerng Put i'm Place Prior
~ Opening Monday.

Dozens OF exhibitors, carpenters and
other work,nen are busy at the state
fair grounds. making exhibit frames
and placing tho. fndl touches on some
Of the booths Nearly all Of tho Inn
plement houses have their exhibits al
ready In shape; none Of the stock has
yet arrived. the manufacturers buil1-
ing resembles a lively carpenter shop
and the Horticultural building Is like
a fruit store house. The activity ana
the earnestnoss Of the workers how
ever, evlnces ample preparedness for
the finest fair ever held In the state OF
Utah or In fact In the entire inter-
mountain region.
MANY novel features OF home produce
tion Will attract special attention at the
fair this year, some OF thcm btUhg
bound to interest the crowds fully as
much as can the hired entertainers.
AREoPLANE ARRIVES.
on the grounds this morning Just as
II was unpacked from the saltiir TAIN,
was the new aoroplane owned by James
Wade and Clarence walker. which tor
several months past has been reaching
a state OF practlcability on TIE barren
fats west Of the city. .. + Alfred
and Doris Davis who have for months
had the construction OF tha plane IN
hand. are putting IL together at the
fair grounds In tbs hopes thas SUCCESS
ful flights may result next week. Sew
erai times Mr.. Davis has succeeded
in making aerial trips, but on account
OF two deep bitches, the last flight re-
suited quite disastrously. as the aero
planes wheels sunk and the planes or
the machine We're shattered at one
end These viii be repaired. however
aefurc tho beginning OF toe fair.
The machine, wlucn rs made sone-
what on the Farman and somewhat
on thn Curtis plan, represents 5000 in
actual material. 20 say nothing OF the
work that has been expended upon it.
Its balancing system is entirely new.
and the machine complete weighs about
1000 pounds. II is result of the en-
tEusiasm sthat attended the visit u
raulam some months ago, but rs the
Wright and other machines cost $1,000,
ana even more. Mr.. Wade ana MIR.
Walker proceeded to build one OF their
own.
RECORD WHEAT ROOTS.
In the Agricultural college building
will be seen. this year, the longest
wheat root ever dug from the ground.
II "a feet inches long and be-
sides this the wheat stock above the
root Is three feet long. 1t cost SlbO
TO dig the root fom the ground and
20 place It In It's glass case at the fair.
II will undoubtedly go it's way to other
states and other exhibitions 20 show TO
the world that on dry farms, wheat,
II properly tended. VIII go down into
the ground until II finds water The
exhibit Is most Instructive from dry
farming standpoint.
In the Agricultural college exhibit
will also be seen miniature houses
showing how properly TO fight house
flies, a model creamery and a $4,000
exhibit OF siverware, being the
prizes Utah has at various times taken
at exhibitions The attendant says
that Utah has always won the sweep
stakes
In the horticultural building n large
dry farming exhibit Is being arranged
under the auspices OF the Nephi Com
mercial club. the best things which
were shown az the Indian war veterans
encampment being included in the OK
hibit Mr. Burton has charge Of this
exhibit and L. A. Merrill, J. Ed Taylor
and Ed Boiling have charge OF the