Show UTAH STATE FAIR OPENS SATURDAY Saturday in Salt Lake City the gates wi will l open for the third fifty-third session of the Utah State fair an exposition it is promised by the management that will be superior in many departments to any fair that has preceded it lt Among the firmly established of this state of which its citizens should be proud proud and and to which their unselfish support is due due is is the Utah State fair Few Utah people perhaps realize realize realize real real- ize that the Utah State Fair is isone isone isone one of the oldest state expositions in the western United States It was founded In 1856 only nine years after the pioneers entered Salt Lake valley Only one other state claims a longer fair record than Utah Utah California California in which state It Is said the fairs have been held since 1852 It was the old Deseret Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural tural Manufacturing Society that founded Utah's fair The society society so so- in turn was founded by territorial territorial territorial ter ter- legislative act the preceding preceding preceding ing winter This venerable organization organization organization organ organ- continued In existence until until until un un- un- un til 1907 when the Ule present Utah State Fair Association was creat creat- ed |