The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-30
STATE FAIR OPENS TODAY.

| STATE FAIR OPENS TODAY,
Tho Utah State Fair opens today IN.
der auspices more favorable than. ever
before We have had an unusually
productive growing season. and all OF
the field growths of the State have
been at their best. The yields o1
grain OF fruits, Of vegetables, of ev'
erything indeed that is grown are in
the greatest quantity and of the best
quality, The Fair, therefore, will be
corrcspondingly greater than other fairs
have been under less favorable circum-
stances
Another matter that viii make this
fair rank above those OF other years
is the interest that has been awakened
in the different counties in the matter
Of making unit exhibits. This matter
of urging the counties to come forward
with exhibits as counties is something
that The Tribune has advocated for
years, aud it is now getting into good
form There have been some county
exhibits heretofore, notably from Box
Elder, and doubtless the exhibits from
that county will this year be better
than ever before But other counties
will also exhibit as counties, and will
show the best that they have been
able to produce in this unusually pro-
ductive year. The counties are helped
in this by law passed at the legisla-
tive session Of 1911, which allows of
the levy of special tax for the pur-
pose OF making exhibits of this kind.
This law should be amended so as to
allow OF the larger counties spending
upon these exhibits somewhat in pro-
portion to their ability. 1t is not n
good economic proposition to Limit all
the counties to the one maximum of
expenditure; for $4,000 would be no
more 10 Utah county. for instance, than
$1,000 would be to Grand. and these
differences in lesser degree could he
noted among all OF the counties
Another great incentive to the max
ing of good exhibits 5his year, besides
the great productivencss of the wear
which allows of far better exhibits thsn
the average, is the presence this week
in this city of the National Irrigation
Congress. This will be body of men.
of wide influence, of great experience,
and Of business sagacity 50 far above
the average that 1t is well worth while
TO 90 ont Of the way to make an eH~
hibit worthy of their inspection and
commcndatiOn; for that the exhibits
will be worthy of their commentator
we have no doubt, and it will be
proud day for Utah TO get this COM
mendation in such form as the dele.
gates to this National Irrigation Con
gress VIII be able to give.
The officers of the Stale Fair Associ-
atlon have put IN long period of
preparation; they have fully sensed
the Importance of having this year the
best fair ever shown IN this State
They have been indefatigahle; they are
experts in the business OF collecting
exhibits and showing those exhibits to
the best advantage. They know what
to receive, what is best to make promi-
nent, and We do not doubt but that
the showing Will be fully up to the
expectations and desires of the most
optimistic opinion and of the best-di-
rected activity of this State in this
direction. Altogether. therefore, the
State Fair this year is certain TO be
worthy of the State and worthy Of
the occasion. The Tribune has always
taken deep interest in the State Fair
and the exhibits there made, and this
year it expects TO take au even greater
and TO award vet more un
stinted praise than ever before on what
will he on exhibit this present week