The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-17
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Neat little white fences, foot and {
half high, border the race track or
both sides. The old buildings are
being whitewashed, both inside an6
out. The management have a power
machine to put on the whitewash
rapidly. The old drinking fountain
no longer has puddle around it
1t has a sink under it, so that the
water drains off Immediately thru
a grating. All of the old sheds and
buildings have been torn down and
new ones have been put up in more
suita BILE places. Just north of the
original entrance is the concessions
building, containing sixteen stalls
where the takers can be housed and
sheltered, and cry their wares to
their hearts content. The building
has open sides so their wares can be
seen the same as if they had a tent
over it, with the sides rolled up. A
new poultry building, 32x40 feet,
has been placed north of that. Con-
tinuing north a space has been left
for building to be erected in the
future, for dairy cattle. A barn has
been erected for feed cattle, the size
of the barn being 32x12S feet and
containing thirty-two stalls. A
horse barn, 26X12S feet, contains
thirty-two double stalls. The floor
ing of these buildings has been care
fully graded and coated with clay
and cinder. Along the north side are
the sheds for the sheep and hogs, ten
feet wide and SOC feet long, con-
tanning seventy-six stalls with con-
crete floors, and supplied with water
mains from the water system of the
town. Further westward, extending
from the northern corner, eastward,
and facing the race tracks, is row
of stables for the race horses There
are forty stalls in this row of stables.
The race track is sixty-six feed wide
and is being put in perfect condition
by sprinkling, and the use of the
steam roller. On the outside of the
race track is an automobile drive
way covered with cinder, wet and
rolled down with the steam roller.
On the outside, or northern side OF
this driveway is space, smoothed
off perfectly and wet down for park
ing automobiles during the fair.
People can reserve spaces in that
parking at $1.0O day per car. The
space reserved for the shows that
usually assemble in the midway, are
north of the poultry house and along
the eastern front, rather than dis
tributed between the entrance and
the grandstand, as under the old
plan. Every thing is being built to
attract the crowds and to make it
easy for them to go around the race
tracks, or at least to 60 up the east
ern side of the grounds. Under the
old conditions it was disagreeable
trip to go up thru stock shows at all.
Between the horse barn and the cat
tie barn is the shower bath for wash
ing animals. The animal is stood
on a grading and washed and the
water flows thru into the stump. In
front of the grand stand the judges
stand has been re-installed, as in
the original plan. Westward from
that is the small corral and chute
where the wild horses are assembled
to be saddled, and the arrangement
of the chute makes it easier to saddle
the horse whether his horseship is
willing or. not. The stock barns
have been laid out with reference to
holding stock shows and stock sales,
turnout the winter season, whenever
anything of the kind is desired.
A force of about twenty men and
several teams, a tractor and some
graders are at work on the grounds
and buildings. The new power
sprinkler, belonging to the city will
be used just before the fair and dur
ing fair week, to keep everything
sprinkled and keep down the dust.
The work at the fair grounds is
under direction of M. o. Monroe. F.
A. Seeger fthe Seeger-Bundlie COM
pany has been spending most Of his
time there, helping with it, since he
got back from his vacation some two
weeks ago. Mr.. Seeger is interested
in making the fair grounds the very
best that is possible and he just goes
out and works day after day, because
he is interested. All of the field
enclosed within the race track will
be perfectly leveled and will afford
a good place for airships to light
and make their start. All of the
connected with the fair
grounds is being turned over to
Bingham county and will be paid for
on the installment plan, the original
receiving back just the
amount of money they put into it
without any interest.