The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-27

west Livestock association just
held in Lewiston two important
steps were taken that assure the
enlargement of the exhibition to
q position that will give it per-
manent rank among the leading
livestock shows of not only the
United States, but of the world.
One of these steps was to remove
the limit of competition that had
been confined to the states of Ida
ho, Washington, Oregon and Mon
tana and to open it to the world
The second step was to admit to
the list of qualified entries light
horses, these embracing the sad
dlers class and the standard
breeds. By the latter step, the
exhibition now assumes the full
est scope of the Chicago Inter
national and the Denver show
and thus becomes subject to the
fullest development met by those
great exhibitions, says the Tri-
bune.
"While the action of the Lew
iston people in promptly guaran-
teeing premiums of $1,000 for
the livestock show" said Robert
Jones, president of the association
yesterday, "has been a most
pleasing thing to the executive
board, we cannot but feel that
the step taken in opening the ex-
hibition to the world and as well
broadening the scope of the class
es admitted to competition has
been the most important develop
ment in the great work the as
sociation has undertaken The
step peans,in fact, that Lewiston
has become the seat of one of the
worlds greatest livestock shows.
Necessarily in the first and secont
exhibitions given by the associa-
ton, the stockmen in charge re-
allied that the plans to be adopt
ed must be experimental in a de-
gree-there has to be purpose
to keep the work within scope
that could be handled, yet provide
an exhibition broad enough to
convince the livestock interests
Of the northwest and the citizens
in general as we'll that such an
institution could be made of great
value industrially to this part OF
the UnitedStates and consequently
an institution that should be made
permanent. l believe now that II
was the part of wisdom to place
these limitations on the exhibition
to exercise these precautions, sc
that the foundation would be
secure, and the possibilities OF fu
ture work thus more clearly out
lined, yet many Of us have fell
that ultimately the scope of the
exhibition must be broadeneC
along the lines now taken if thu
fullest results desired were evel
to be attained. 1t is most gratlfy
ing that we now feel that at thl
early period in the history of TIT
association we can launch the ex
hibition on the larger plane ant
under conditions that assure sue
cess. AS the statement has ire
quently been the basis of address
es by experts and has frequentl'
been reiterated in the press o
the northwest the Northwest LAVE
stock show was formulated pr
marily for-and its true essenc
and value make of tan agenc
for developing the livestock II
dustry in this part of the unl'e
States. 1t is and essentially a
ways must be livestock show f'
livestock people-the farmer VIII
perhaps only uses livestock as
side line, the dairyman, the stoci
nan on the range or the stockma
who confines his operation to u
stall-fed class. 1t was felt, an
it was true, that the great nee
of the northwest was not on
more livestock but better grae
Of livestock, The Northwest A