Show I1DTJSTKIAL FAIRS Everybody who visited the late fair was struck with the inappropriateness of the building for the purpose and the general lack of facilities for exhibit of the articles making a proper be cles shown Much could not shown co advantage and some of the article could be seen but imperfectly even with dfficulty The livestock tared better because the weather hap pence to be lair and they bad outdoors out-doors in which to display themselves them-selves Poor as wera the facilities for making a display they were borrowed bor-rowed and were the best that oould be obtained in the city When the struggles of the D A M Society are thought of it is a reflection upon past legislatures that this large and prosperous territory is without they means for arranging an industrial exhibit ex-hibit that even when a display like that of last week is attempted a few individuals have to accept the re sponaib lity and personally obligate themselves to bear tne expenses trusting to the interest and generosity of a fickle public to save them from loss These gentlemen ask iothing for their t me and labor and are only too glad if the exhibition is creditable and the receipts as the door will cover the expenses I ex-penses and pay the prizes awarded Fair grounds and an exhibition building build-ing are needed here and they should be provided Out of the public puree The value of these fairs in an industrial indus-trial sense may hardly be estimated I Something of their worth may be seen every succeeding year in more and better bred stock in finer workmanship work-manship in evidences of skill and culture and tare in the various branches of arts and mechanics ard sciences in agriculture horticulture floriculture and in fact in the in3u = tries generally Heretofore one of the chief uses of the fairs has been their excellence as a place for adver tismg products and wares The prizes are necessarily insign fi cant amounting in few instances to the actual expenses of the exhioit l i Besides suitable buildings and grouudf there should be a sufficient mud frgtn which to pay prizes more in kfpifig j with the efforts of the exhibitor ft > c worthy of their labor Dial oi > b andhonorable mention are ab very well but they are too cheap to be very encouraging There ought to be some rewards worth making great effort to obtain something that would induce the farmer to take extra pains in growing competing crops tbe artist to spend more time upon his pictures the shoemaker to put forth I his beat efforts in fact induce tha I operators in every department of industry in-dustry to struggle to excel A few hundreds or thousands of dollars disposed dis-posed of in this manner as rewards re-wards of labor and skill would return a rich harvest in the way of general industrial improvements improve-ments At the coming session of the legislature an effort should be made to provide for annual exhibitions of the territorial products in honorable competition and an appropriation made for starting towards the erection of suitable permanent exhibition buildings |