The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-01
All Events Staged
Within Fair Grounds
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leave no holes and borrow pits. TIL,
earth for all of these fills was takeI
from the high ground on the north
ern side of the track, and a fine road
way was graded from the tracks to
wards the entrance to the stables
this being part of the job of grad
ing the whole plat so 1t will irrigate
and make no puddles.
| The total cost of all improvements
made on the fair grounds this season
is about $4,000 or will be by the time
the grading and seeding is done and
the fence finished. The total amount
of donations made by stockholders
to apply on this expense was $164O
up to Thursday morning, and 5000
or $500 have been rendered since
that, SO 1t will be necessary to find
$500 or $500 more to clear up the
obligations that have been made. Not
| all OF this expense has gone into i'm
provements, for some of it is really
maintenance such as clearing of the
weeds and putting the track in con-
dition, expenses which the fair
board would have to meet Just be-
fore fair time if 1t had not been done
during the summer by this other
plan. Last year they expended sew
eral hundred dollars in clearing OF
weeds and putting the track in shape
and this year at fair time it will be
all done and done better than ever
before.
The improvement committee of
the city council has decided to re-
build SO much of the old bitches at
the border of the park and the fair
grounds as is necessary to get them
into one system and that a straight
one, lying right up against the new
steel fence. Where the ditch runs
under the road connecting the two
parks they will put in siphon of
steel and concrete so there will be
no rise at the crossing. In grading
the ditch along the fence there will
be suitable elevations left for the To-
cation Of shoWer baths to drain into
the ditch, so that when the town is
ready to install them for the tourist
camp all will be ready. The same
committee thinks it best to remove
the sod from that part Of the park
where the cook house is and grade it,
fertilize and pulverize it deep and
relay the sod so it will water per-
fectly 1t is now rough and after
watering it consists of alternate
patches of dry ground and puddles.
The improvement committee
wants to erect the concrete pillars
at the east entrance of the park and
place steel archway over it about
twenty-five feet wide and then let
somebody plant Virginia creepers or
Engleman's ivy to climb all over it.
The committee is having the city
water works extended to the cook
house right away so it will be in use
for tourists and fair visitors, and
they express their approval Of re-
setting some of the places where
flowers and shrubs have been al
lowed to- die and to undertake to
keep them well titled and protected
hereafter. This part of the park
management is given in connection
with the fair because the two institu-
lions are SO closely related they need
joint management to some extent.
The secretary and directors of the
fair have decided that hereafter they
will undertake to make the opening
day of the fair the biggest and best
day II there is any best day They
have a number of matters under con-
sideration which they hope to ma
turo that will add greatly to the fun
of the occasion, but we are not at
liberty to make any announcements
until positive engagements are COM
pleted. .
Editor Trego asked for the use of
a booth or space at the exhibits hall
from which to distribute the plants
of the perennial pea, and this was
granted without any charge since he
was planning to give away something
for public good which costs him some
money to raise and pack and wrap
ready to place in the hands of those
receiving the plants. The board
takes the view that the fair is con-
Quoted to advance the interests of
the agricultural classes and to make
better farms and better homes, and
that anyone placing valuable plants
free of charge in the hands Of the
people who have farms and homes,
and teaching them how to make the
plants grow into bowers Of beauty
that make homes more attractive
and more beautiful was doing a SER
vice which they wanted to encourage
for public good and for these reasons
no charge is to be made for the space
which Mr.. Trego uses to store his
crates of plants and for the workers
to stay in while they do their work.
Mr.. Trego's offer to furnish the
plants free and to advertise the
plans Of distribution and /. the
methods Of planting and raising the
flowers was accepted with thanks.
Supt. l.. c. Aicher Of the expert
mental farm at Aberdeen was pres
emit, after having missed couple OF |
meetings and he said 1t was not due
to any lack of interest on his part or
Of his people in the south end of the
county. He said the people were
interested in receiving the premium |
list so they could begin to plan for
the exhibits and the contests and
that Aberdeen is going to do it's part |
to make good fair.
T. P. Fackrell was present after
having missed one meeting and he
predicts a hearty supDort from tho |