Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-21
GREAT PRIZES ARE
OFFERED FOR BIG FAIR
San Francisco Exposition Management
Has Set Aside S175,OOO for Live
Stock Division.
HARNESS RACES WILL
BRING S225,OOO TO WINNERS,
Two Race Meets, One in Fall and One
in Autumn, Will Be Great Draw
ing Cards This Year.
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San Francisco, June 21.-Great
prizes and valuable trophies are to be
offered for prize-winning livestock at
the Panama-Pacific international Ex-
position. The exposition management
has set aside $l75,00O as prize money
for the livestock division alone and be.
sides this there will be many special
funds and trophies. Two hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars will be
devoted to harness races.
An innovation which has already at
tracted the attention of breeders all
over the world is that live stock will
be on display throughout the period of
the exposition, which lasts for ten con-
secutive months, from February to De-
cember, 1915. This is decidedly new
venture in universal expositions and a
record display is assured in the live
stock division. Prize.winning stock
from all parts of the world will be
shown.
Two race meetings will be held at
the exposition during the year, one in
the spring and one in the autumn. The
$225,O0O is offered under the auspices
of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse
Breeders Association. The races will
be international in character and will
be held on mile track which is now
being constructed on the exposition site
at Harbor View.
The main competition for $175,000 in
prize money and the supplemental Of
ferings of the breed associations will
take place in October and November
but, with the assistance of the breed
associations, it is planned to have spe-
cimens exhibited all the year round in
all of the classes which make up the
livestock department In keeping with
the character of the whole exposition,
the exhibits in this department will be
one of an educational nature and dis
play signs will be used to tell the name
of the breed, origin and the use Of
every animal exhibited. Tt is also
planned to have moving pictures, slides
and lectures incident to the livestock
industry in all its branches in all parts
of the world an exposition feature
which is regarded as a great step in
advance Of all previous efforts. Plans
are made to land cattle from foreign
countries at the quarantine station at
Angel Island in San Francisco bay.
Thence the stock will be transported
directly to the exposition ferry slips.
An initial fund of $500 has been
set aside by the American Hereford
Cattle Breeders Association to be ap-
piled toward supplemental premiums
for the 1915 exposition. It is expected
that a similar amount will be set aside
in 1914 and 1915.
The American Shorthorn Breeders
Association has also taken preliminary
action in regard to reserving funds for
stock prizes and three of the leading
Dairy Cattle Herd Book Associations
are at present planning for their par
ticipation in the exposition.
Individual sheep breeders in Eng.
land and New Zealand are taking great
interest in the sheep section. One of
the smaller sheep record associations
of America has inaugurated a plan for
the creation of a fund of $1,000 to be
offered as supplemental premiums at
the exposition. The fund is being
raised by voluntary offerings by mem.
bers of the association interested in
the promotion of the breeds. Other
associations in this country and abroad