The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-04


IOo-foot dive.
The big event of this afternoons free
programme will be a balloon race for
blood" Four balloons will make ascen-
sions. They will lenye the ground at
the same moment and tho one that goes
highest will be declared the winner. The
hallooDists have pooled their wages for
today and the winner is TO take the
'ipot"
There are entered for tho contest
Wayne Abbott. La Strange, Fl, A. Phelps
Abbott Is perhaps the more experienced.
Therefore ne has been made favorite in
the books Berkinson Is regarded as
a daring balloonlst and he has the ad
vantage OF Abbott in weight. For that
reason Berkinson is second choice La
Strange and Phelps are both experienced
balloon men.
Altogether there should be plenty for
the children to see today.
n special feature announced for Satur
day IL a soccer football game between
the Utah Copper company and the Salt
Lake team The kickoff will be made at
4 o'clock. The game will be played on
tho plot in the center of the fair
grounds.
Youth Wins Potato Prize.
Merle Hyers yesterday was declared
winner Of the National Copper bank po-
tato contest. Hycrs lis a Lewiston, Cache
county youth, Hc succeeded in growing
397 bushels OF Early Eureka potatoes on
half an acre of ground, which is equiva-
lent to I94 bushels TO the acre. He
was presented with a check for 500 by
the National Copper bank and also with
the beautiful trophy cap. which is the
special prize offered by the bank. The
trophy Will be Hyers's under conditions
again before IT finally becomes his prop
erty.
Sterling Watson Of Vernal was second
choice In tho Judging.
regarded as remarkable. The yield
which ne reported fairly took potato eH-
perts off their feet. The yield was at
tested by affidavits.
Only Boys Compete.
| more than zoo, are moro than is years
| OF age; some OF them are 8 or 10. The
champion potato grower OF Utah county
| proved to be D. j. Lott. 0 years Of age,
the old mare In cultlvaring his crop, so
he made a dickcr with his brother to
pilot the animal Another lad even beat
Lott for ingenuity. He had no big
guided her through the rows OF potatoes
with commands Of "gee" and "haw,"
Hyers, the prize winner, utilized every
foot of soil In his half acre by means OF
sub-irrIgation. which Is irrigation by
seepage. In this way the space usually
required for surface canals and bitches
was saved for actual growing area. BY
this means Hyers was enabled TO got his
remarkable yield.
Utah Apples Hardy.
| AS proof in refutatIon OF the state
ment sometimes made that Utah apples
will not keep" State horticultural In
spector J. Edward Taylor yesterday
placed IN the Irrigation congress exhibit
a basket Of apples Of last years crop
The apples are from box that was In
cluded in the Utah fruit exhibit that
was sent TO New York al the time OF the
| land show. II was also exhibited at
Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago and else
where. When the apples were returned
to Salt Lake they were placed in cold
storage and there remained until yester-
| day, when the basketful was taken from
the box and placed In the exhibit. Mr.
Taylor says that out Of the entire box
only one apple was found to be decayed
| The apples which Mr.. Taylor placed on
display are almost as fresh in appear
ance as though they had been picked
| only an hour before. They are sound
las n dollar and their flavor has not de-
lterorated The display Is ample evil
dence that Utah apples are as hardy as
1any apple grown
New Wrinkle for Apiarists.