The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-06
Many Good Ideas Cleaned From
National Fair Association
Convention.
LIBERAL EXTRA PREMIUMS
FOR NEXT UTAH FAIR
Excellent Progress Making in
Raising of Thoroughbred
Stock Here.

Horace s. Ensign, the genial secre
tary OF the State Fair association. !.
home from An eight-day stay In Chicago
His visit to tho Windy City was TO at.
| tend the annual convention OF the Ma.
tional Association OF Fairs and Exhibit
tionS, which was in session there one
week. beginning November IS. Mr., En-.
sign is enthusiastic over tho convention
which he says, was the best he has at
tended. Concerning the convention, Mr.
Ensign says:
I'VE certainly had a grand convention
There were 13s representatives OF state
fairs, from every state In the Union
For an enthusiastic body OF men, l have
yet 10 see It's equal. 1t was business
from the start Papers were read and
discussed that were OF great import to
tair managers. and II is certain that the
men attending went away with new
ideas. which they will incorporate into
the management of fairs next year. The
discussions were of great benefit to me
and shall use the information gained
TO advantage In the Utah fair
Governor Spry and J. G. Mcdonald
We're visitors In Chicago too. They at
tended tho land congress and looked over
the Coliseum and the stock barns Point
with the erection OF like buildings on the
state fair grounds in Salt Lake next
year.
Liberal Premiums.
While in Chicago I attended the live
stock shows, and In meetings ] had with
the officers OF the different associations
tnelr promise was given me that liberal
extra premiums viii be offered by them
at the next Utah fair, That Is one of
the chief objects I had in mind when
| went TO the stock shows.
Utah may be proud of its State Fair
association and the manner In which the
fairs are managed. A number OF the
secretaries Of fairs in other states that
ahead OF many eastern fairs in methods
news to me.
Perhaps the best thing accomplished
was the meeting with the secretaries Of
the State Fair associations OF Nebra ska,
Kansas and Colorado. We made progress
In our scheme OF a circuit OF state fairs
Idaho VIII be included when the circuit
Is complete The object Will be to In
duce exhibitors OF livestock TO send their
exhibits west instead of south There
Is a growing tendency among stock men
TO visit western In preference to south
rapid development OF the stock raising
industries Of the west over the south
and other sections Of the country as we'll
1t is a fact that we are making better
progress in the raising of thoroughbred
stock In this section OF the country than
In some of the other parts OF the coun-
try that long have stood under the rep
ntation OF being the only place to go
for really high bred stock.
Immense Attraction.
THE land show at the Coliseum was
the great attraction in Chicago last
week. The apple show from Washington
state, held In the armory. was a failure
from a pecuniary standpoint. As to ex-
hibits II was grand, The land show had
the start by week, Not enough admis-
sions were paid at the apple show to
pay rent, The promoters must have lost
thousands of dollars, and then failed to
get the advertising they sought for their
section OF the country on account Of the
small attendance"
Mr.. Ensign complains of the extremely
cold weather he found while on his trip
east, and saws its good to get back 10
the best climate and the best city in
the world.