The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
BEAUTFYING FAIR GROUNDS

fence erected In ltS place Win
painted posts, the committee finds
more interest being taken in the pro-
ject. The cement posts at the en-
frances are being cased up in pressed
brick columns and it looks so orna-
mental that the tourists speeding by
all day going to and from the ma
tional park show keen interest in it.
Those who camp in the city park
adjoining the fairgrounds are pro-
fuse in their praise of the conyen-
fence and beauties of the park and
the larger tract being improved.
The present plans call for grading
all within the race track and making
a large part of it into skating rink
for winter. A house is to be built
for q care taker in the western angle
of the grounds next to the city park,
and parts of the grounds at the west
end are to be parked. 1t is pro-
posed that the city and fair associa-
tion join forces to remove the board
fence on the northern side of the
city park and replace it with the
woven wire fencing to match the
rest of it. At the southern angle
where the administration building
is to be, there is division of opin-
ion as to whether the triangle shall
be fenced with woven wire or with
a live fence, of California privet
trimmed into a low bank that shall
not obstruct the view.
On Wednesday afternoon Mrs.
Trego accompanied the committee on
a tour of the grounds to suggest how
and where to park with flowers AMI
grass, and after looking it all over
it was decided to act on her sug-
gestion to await the arrival of new
revised plat of the grounds and
buildings showing the new entrances,
and send copy of it to an eastern
nursery firm that maintain depart
ment of landscape gardening. cor
responding to architectural drafting
for buildings, and give them all in
formation as to climate, altitude,
prevailing winds etc., and get plan
from them with specifications.
Mrs Trego told the committee she
would be glad to work with them to
beautify the place thru coming years
and said she could furnish a great
deal of stock from her own yard,
already acclimated and quite sure to
grow when moved so short dis
tance. She said 1t requires careful
study in selection, transporting and
transplanting shrubs and plants, to
get results, and that much of the
failure in such work is due to lack
of understanding of when and how
to do it and what to set.
Mr.. Trego suggested making a
bower of beauty along the whole
east front, facing the Yellowstone
highway and the railroad tracks. His
proposal was to set two perennial
pea plants to each of the eighty pam
els in the front fence, place them
in such position that they would
water automatically from the irrigat-
ing ditch. and automatically climb
up on the windward side of the
woven wire fencing and the sprays
hang thru so the mass of bloom
would be facing the road and the
morning sun. The road is to be
paved thruout, and the plants would
not suffer from the dust as it exists
at present. His plan calls for dig
ging 100 holes about the size Of a
candy bucket and two feet deep.
Fill them with mixed soil and leaf
mold and stable manure which thev
are rotting in wet pit, and let this
mixture ripen for six or eight months
before anything is planted in it, In
the meantime he would hand-pick
the climbing perennial pea seeds in
three colors and keep them separate
so the plants can be alternated,
white, pink and pale pink along the
whole front. BY starting in now to
mark the blooming plants and pick
ing the seeds next month, the plants
can be developed for some bloom in
the summer of 1922, and abundant
bloom in 1923 and for ten years or
more afterwards with ordinary care.
These plants grow to a height of
from four to eight feet and bloom
for several weeks corresponding
pretty closely to the park season in
the Yellowstone.
The committee are anxious to get
the finals of the plans adopted and
to get the office building erected.
The farm bureau keeps paying niger
rents all the while and the quarters
are not at all satisfactory for their
work. Mr.. Monroe and Mr.. Seeger
are very enthusiastic about getting
the ground plan adopted and getting
the plants and shrubs to growing.
They declare that Blackfoot has the
opportunity to make the show place
Of the Snake river valley and that all
we have to do is to use the materials
at hand and make a very beautiful
place where the travelling world can
see it.
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Somebody owns Ford sedan and