The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-05-27
MINNESOTA HAS
GREAT STATEFA|R
$2,500,000 Plant Covering 270
Acres Attracts Thousands
Annually.

The Minnesota State Fair, known
throughout the nation as "The Worlds
Greatest State Fair" is a Minnesota
institution of vast magnitude and
which, each September, brings hun.
famous grounds at Hamline, midway
between downtown st. Paul and
downtown Minneapolis.
Covering 270 acres and with fixed
investment in buildings of $2,500,000,
this great fair ground offers splen-
did field in which each year to review
Minnesota's resources and the pro-
gress of it's citizens in farming, in
manufacturing and commerce.
For number of years now, against
the keen competition of many other
states, the big Minnesota fair has
held its place as the worlds greatest
state fair.
Last year, the Minnesota fair was
first by several thousand dollars in
premiums awarded and by several
Hundred in the number of exhibitors.
A total of $141,000 was given in
prizes to Minnesota residents for ex.
cellence of products and more than
$500 exhibitors, from nearly every
state in the country, displayed their
goods here.
For the 1927 Fair, total of $145,0OO
has been set aside by the board of d.
rectors as prize money, and many
hundreds of exhibitors, in addition TO
those who maintain regular space on
the Fair Grounds, have applied for
concessions.
From small pumpkin fair of
few scattered exhibits, with prize
list aggregating less than 500 and
an attendance under 1000, the Mime
sofa State Fair has grown to it's pres
ent magnitude.
Nearly 100000 persons, 440,970
to be exact-have attended the Mime
sofa State Fair in the past 10 years.
This is nearly twice the population Of
the entire state, and gives an idea of
what the people think of this big edu-
cational institution. No other institu-
ton has more enthusiastic supporters
or is more Loyalty supported than the
State Fair.
The 1926 Minnesota State Fair was
$20,000,000 exposition, that wildly
portrayed the agricultural and in
dustrial development of the great
Northwest.
An idea of the immensely of the
State Fair can be cleaned from the
fact that every foot of space In the
270-acre plot, which is the j Fair
Grounds, was occupied by buildings
and exhibits af some kind. or other.
From the little pumpkin fair, with
only tents for shelter, the State Fair
has grown until today it has more
buildings are valued at $2,500,000.
While the 1926 fair showed an oper.
ating loss, due to rain on three days.
it was by all odds the biggest and
best fair yet staged. The quality and
quantity of exhibits, in virtually every
department, exceeded those of other
years.
The 1926 shortage was made up from
the cash reserve fund which the Fair
has built up from profits of other
years. The management went into
the 1925 fair with reserve fund Of
$4,000. This sum, of course, was
considerably reduced In the fall of
1926, but there is still a tidy sum on
hand for this falls fair.
approximately $1,000,000 In profits
has been made by the State Fair
the past 10 years This money has
all gone back into new buildings, i'm
provements and maintenance, the man.
agement virtually matching dollar for
dollar every cent appropriated by the
State Legislature.