The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-10-03
BINGHAM COUNTY
FAIR ASSOCIATION
THANKS THE PRESS
Citizens are Making Fair
Grounds Wonderful
Beauty Spot on
Noted Highway

eastern Idaho Fair take this means
of thanking the public press for their
generous aid in conveying to the
public the correct information re-
garding the plans and purposes OF
the great harvest festival just closed
that brought together the finest
proof of the possibilities of our soil
and climate, that has ever been as
sembled in eastern Idaho. Its edu-
cational value to visitors and to our
home people is beyond our power to
estimate, and the advertising value
to Idaho. from the moving picture
reels being made from it for use
thruout the east will benefit the
whole state. Any fair that takes in
enough money to pay its operating
expenses without counting the pre-
miums on agricultural exhibits is
considered success, and ours did
more than that this year tho it leaves
a large deficit to the paid out of the
county treasury, and this will be
taken care of by the people of Bing-
ham county, believeing that it is a
good investment for them on behalf
of their county and state. This great
service to the state would not have
been possible without the co-opera-
tion of the public press, and the Of
flcers and all their corps of workers
who put on the fair wish to make
this acknowledgment and to remind
the public of the service rendered
week in and week out thru all the
years, in connection with every pub
lie and smei-public enterprise.
Plans for a Greater Fair
Speaking for ourselves and the
people of Bingham county, who have
made the Southeastern Idaho fair
what it has developed into in nine
teen years, we wish to thank the peo-
pie of southern Idaho for their CO.
operation in making 1t truly dis
trict fair advertising the resources
of all the irrigated counties. We
have the good fortune to have our
grounds located on the greatest
thorofare thru the valley, the Yel-
lowstone highway, and we propose
making it beauty spot to challenge
the admiration and attract the at
tention of people touring the west
ern world, and thereby make it
valuable advertisement to the state.
Public and private subscriptions are
being lavished upon it for this pur-
pose by people of Bingham county,
and to keep pace with the demands
and the opportunities presenting
themselves will require from $4,000
to $4,000 a year for improvements
in the grounds, trees, flowers and
shrubs, a larger amount annually to
pay the deficit in premiums for
agricultural exhibits, and from five
to ten thousand a year to erect ex-
tensions to the buildings as they are
needed to house the exhibits in agri-
culture and livestock.
We bring these matters to public
attention as reminder Of the splen-
did team work being done by the
people Of Bingham county for the
common good, and we wish to ex-
press the hope that other localities
that are conducting fairs may take
courage and keep up their work. We
hope they will send their best ex-
hibits of stock and fruits of the soil
to the Southeastern Idaho fair, and
afford the people Of the whole dis
trict greater opportunities to see and
obtain the best.
DIRECTORS OF THE SOUTHEAST
ERN IDAHO FAIR.