Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-09
GIVE ENCOURAGEMENT To COUNTY FAIR
Dallas Must Provide Permanent Location II City Would
Retain This Most Worthy Educational Enterprise.

private purchaser will get foot of at $500
Another thing be borne in mind by the voters at tomor
rows election that the event of it's purchase this land
will be by the city. The deed will be made the city,
title will in the city, and the Fair Association will be
permitted exercise control the tract only long it
used for county fair purposes Should the fair enterprise
be abandoned the city would at control of
the property and dispose of it it fit Under the
posed charter amendment to be voted upon tomorrow the "
would have power keep the land, improve it for park
other municipal purposes, sell it outright.
issued they will for 10 years. onetenth
of the principal to be paid each By figuring the prnc
pal interest it will be found that the amount to
uaton, the propertyowner will pay six and onefth cents
Truly profitable investment when considers the value
of county fair and what this land will be worth ten years
from now!
VALUE OF A COUNTY FAIR.
hardly believe it necessary to dwell at length the
value of county airwhat it will to the future wei
fare of Polk County, what it's educational features will be
worth the boys and girls of public schools and what
splendid returns will bring to Dallas for the little amount
of money asked to contribute We point with
usabe pride fairs already held and that would
abandon these annual exhibitions to their fate is unthn
able Such course is not IN line with Dallas way OF dong
business believe that the vote tomorrow will
be other than favorable to OF the good work
already so well begun.
Polk County world the Angora goat industry
Does anyone think this proud distinction could have been
achieved without the aid of the annual goat shows Does
begrudge the few dollars contributed these
Shows he thinks of the hundreds of thousands of dollars
this industry has brought into the county?
County among the first poultry counties of Ore
poultry shows? Have not these exhibitions brought back
thousands of dollars for every dollar invested?
Polk County of the first counties in Oregon to
hold childrens industrial school fair Can compute in
dollars and the good that these fairs have accomplished
their the home life of the children and to the future
welfare of the county? We annually spending large sums
of money for educational purposes varied in their character
Can spend in better than educating boys
the growing of grains and vegetables and fruits and
girls in the domestic arts and sciences?
These the questions must answer and answer right
if Dallas is continue the home of the county fair The
time arrived when must make definite answer,
other If the fair is to be continued in Dallas it
be provided with permanent location. We no
longer 90 with Sheds and tents and Streets and other
temporary makeshs The pledge of permanent site
accepted good faith by the Fair Board and the time for the
fulfllment of that pledge is here.
that is required of Dallas is the purchase of tract of
today twice the amount asked for ia purchase
which, the average taxpayer, will amount to only few
a year. This land the city will 1t cannot burn
up; cannot destroyed 1t will be worth less thar
it worth today value will increase every year As
purely business investment its purchase is cannot
To against bonds tomorrow would mean
the county aand lost could hope to
get it back again.
cy-as the county of rich and prosperous
tv-Dallas cannot afford this fair AS people,
cannot afford civic pride AS pure business
propositions overlook this opportunity to better
our financial condition
proposed purchase of fair site has the
the Dallas Commercial Club the Dallas WOmens
Club of the business and professional without
ception earnestly hoped that every citizen having the
the city at heart will the polls tomorrow and
prove the world that "Daas never takes backward