, 1920-01-15
STOCK SHOW OPENS SATURDAY.
Denver Expects to Entertain Great
est Crowd of Visitors in the
History of the City.

\ large number of stockmen and
others from this region will spend the
coming week in Denver attending the
18th Annual National Western Stock
Show. Hhich opens next Saturday.
January Il. with the Students judy
ing Contest. when the judging teams
from several western agricultural col
leges will compete. The show proper
will open on Monday morning. IAN
uary 10, with Judging in all depart
ments. The entries are all i'll and the
management is having one of the
greatest problems it has ever struggled
with to find room for the hundreds
of exhibits that are seeking admis-
sion. Although over 100000 was
spent during the past year Tor the
purpose Of charging facilities. the an
nual show has grown so rapidly that
the problem of finding room continues
to be the pressing one.
Not only is the question of find
ing room for the exhibits one thai Is
making difficulty, but the indications
are that Denver will be called upon
to take care of the greatest crowd
ever assembled in hat city. The
Denver Tourist Bureau has under
taken the task of listing all of the ho-
tel rooms and private Don in the
city, and visitors will be directed to
lodging places when they arrive. eth
er through the office of the bureau at
the Union station or from the uptown
office at j0J nth street.
The Horse Show promises to be
the greatest ever held in Denver, and
in fact. one of the greatest ever held
west of the Missouri river. In addi-
ton to the old exhibitors. there will
be quite a number of new ones and
very few of the old horses will be
there this year. One of the features
of the show will be n strong exhibition
of ponies, including Hackneys, Welch
and Shetland ponies.
There will be nearly 100 Herefords
on exhibition in the individual class
es. including the prize-winning herds
from all the big shows in the country.
The Shorthon exhibition is very
nearly as strong as the Herefords
in numbers and fully equal to it in
quality.
Notwithstanding the tremendous
increase i'll expenses. due to- h ad-
vanced cost of everything, the admis-
sion to the show this year will con-
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Reserved seats to the Horse Show
can be had at 30 cents, 10 cents and
81. Matinees wi11be held on Thurs
day, Friday and Hfurday afternoons.
Gov. Frank o. Lowden of Illinois
has promised to visit the Stock Show
during the week. Governor Lowden is
one of the big stockmen of the
country and has made IL wonderful
reputation as governor during the
past two years. He will probably be
the guest Of the show association on
Thursday and Friday of Show Week.
The fact that he is being actively
pushed for the nomination for presi-
dent of the United States makes him
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tereSt.
Two siX-horse teams made up of
Shetland ponies will be one of the
features ut the Horse Show. These
teams are equipped exactly similar to
the teams of big Percheron horses
that have heretofore been seen Mt the
Show. They will attract much inter
est from grown-ups as well as the
little ones.
The swine exhibit in the breeding
classes will contain about GOO of the
finest hogs to be found in the country.
representing the Duroc-Jersey, Poland
China and Hampshire breeds.
Their are 115 loads of feeder cattle
entered and these will contain some of
the choicest feeder cattle to be found
in the West. In the breeding carloads
there will be 10 carloads of bulls, all
registered, and 10 carloads of regis
tered heifers, No other show in the
world can make such Il showing.