The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-01
Bic EXPOSITION
IS GREATEST IN
UTAH HISTORY
People of the State Even Are
Astonished at Showing
Made by the Fair
Association.
LIST OF EXHIBITS
SHOWS INCREASE
First-Day Crowd Is Record
Breaker; Governor Spry
Delivers Happy Open
ing Address.
list OF EXHIBITS
SHOWS INCREASE

partment, any exposition in the
history of Utah, the thirty
fourth annual state fair was
opened yesterday. Remarkably COM
plete, the displays were seen by more
than 5000 persons, which is a record
attendance for opening day.
Every element and factor combined
to make the opening auspicious. The
skies were fair, the sun was bright
the weather was ideal Visitors began
to arrive early. Indeed at 10 o'clock
there was throng Of no small proper
tions within the gates, When the fair
got into full swing in the afternoon
the pay stiles sang merry song with
their continuous clicking.
Governor William Spry delivered an
address. The governor spoke words Of
highest praise for the men and women
who have worked so hard and faith
fully to bring the annual state fair up
TO its present high standard Also tho
governor expressed the hope that one
day the state of Utah might fnd itself
able to invite the people without
charge. The governor declared that
the fair was an education. He COM
pared it with the school system of the
state, and said the exposition impaired
knowledge Of the highest value, just
as did the schools.
The fact that struck the visitor upon
entering the gates yesterday was the
LOT nf ha
hibits, Never before has the Arst day
seen the displays so nearly completed
as they were yesterday. AS q matter
of fact, tho fair can be said to have
been in finished form when the after
noon crowds arrived.
Increase of Exhibits.
superintendent of various divisions
report increases in exhibits in their de.
partments, in some cases running as
high as 75 per cent, and in no instance
below 25 per cent. This is especially
true Of the manufacturers division. No
better evidence Of Utah's remarkable
strides forward is to be found than
that which is to BIO offered by the splen-
did displays in tho manufacturers
building
One who has not kept mental rec
ord of what Utah has been doing in
the way of increasing its manufactur-
ing establishments and developing new
fields of industrial endeavor is fairly
astounded by the sights that greet him
in the manufacturers division. As to
arrangement, il is to be said that there
does not appear to be room for i'm
provement. The booths OF uniform
design, spotless in their white decors-
tions, are the last word in effective
setting.
The distinctive feature that charac.
.erizes the fair of 1912 is the exhibit
Of irrigated land products. This ex-
hibit is marvellous exposition of what
water touching soil has accomplished
in this state. There is vast collec-
tion of grains, fruits and vegetables
a collection almost beyond belief.
Irrigation Exhibit.
The irrigation exhibit-so-cnlied-is
tho most ambitious single undertaking
in the history of Utah fairs. The
expense of its arrangement was borne
by the National Irrigation congress
an expense, by the way. which called
for $500 Of the congress- money. It
is unit exhibit-that is. every county
in the state has there on display tho
best samples OF its land products.
While the displays are grouped togeth-
or in one subdivision, they in reality
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