Show THE F AIR I The Opening Exercises Yesterday I THE TOTAL ECLIPSE Of All Other Efforts Made by the Society GOVERNOR THOMAS REMARKS The Labors of the Directors Rewarded by a Tremendous RushGeneral Gl1nlfSC8 Tho Btnl Contest The Territorial Exposition of 18SO is in full swing and it is the success anticipated Contrary to tho experience of a year ago when the opening was greeted with chilly weather and an almost unceasing downpour down-pour of rain yesterday dawned bright and beautifulin fact it was one of the most of the lands that the grounds bo used exclusively ex-clusively for state fair purposes and that all grounds not actually needed for buildings be improved and cultivated as a public park Here at least was a beginning and everyone every-one remembers the herculean efforts of the directors in 18S3 which resulted in the erection of ofTUB TUB PRESENT STRUCTURE which is but a third of the exposition building build-ing as it will be when completed It was only by the hardest work that the building even in its unfinished conditionwas gotten ready for the reception of the exhibits and indeed in-deed ten days before the fair opened it was doubted by many that wcud be held However fortune or somebody else smiled on the labors of those connected with the society and on the 3d of October 1SS3 just one year ago today the doors were opened and the display made was such as to astonish all visitors and the Territorial exposition of 1333 was pronounced a grand success The public which had heretofore been apathetic cin the mattero rallied to its support and the patronage received was such as to cause the directors to feel that at last their efforts were appreciated even though they were laboring under disadvantages dis-advantages such as they only knew Iur til a71 rt s Ir ni IlF i Y 7 + nn1 YILK11000N8AA6Ce GvUU I urAH EXPOSII IO X BUILDING m perfect flays ever seen even in this region of matchless climate I To tho old residents of Salt Lake and Utah tie Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Manu-facturing society in whose charge the exposition ex-position is will need no introduction but as there are many new comers to whom the society is a stranger and who are totally unacquainted with its past history and strupgleSj a brief retrospective glance will not be out of pitied l The Deseret Agricultural and Manufac I i turing society was organized in 1S33 by the territorial legislature when that body I held its sessions at Fillmore Millard county which was then the capital of Utah Since that time sixteen exhibitions have I been given under its auspices the one now in progress being the seventeenth Ow np however to the peculiar character of the association and the objects in view at the close of each exhibition at least all those prior to that of 1SSS there had been no results financially The expenses ex-penses had at all times so nearly equalled the receipts that it was feared at times during the days on which exhibitions have been held that the individual members of the association would be forced to GIVE FRO THEm OWN rtxiis in order to keep good the promises made to exhibitors Indeed we are not at all certain I tain that this has not been done in more than one instance But be this as it may certain it is that the gentlemen composing the association took all the chances of a heavy loss with the dead certainty that there could not possibly be any gain As a result prior to 1SSS it was unsafe to branch out and the exhibitions were given inward in-ward halls the old market building recently re-cently burned and in such other quarters as were always cramped for room and otherwise unsuitable Nevertheless the directors struggled alongand several of the fairs were undoubted successes in every way safe fron a financial point of view Under the circumstances mentioned it oould hardly be said that the fairs were of a territorial nature there being scarcely room enough to accommodate the exhibits of this county and had there been ample room for all it could scarcely have been filled because the condition of the societys exchequer forbade the offering of any such rewards as would induce those outside of tho county to compete or make any showing show-ing whatever One may say it was a matter mat-ter of discredit that the public patronage DURING AM TIILSE TEARS was rot such as would have enabled the society to put up permanent buildings or at least laid away some money with that object in view and yet when we consider that tho patronage was confined almost exclusively ex-clusively to Salt Lake countysave of course a few quarters dropped by our country friends who happened in at conference confer-ence one can see that the attendance was almost as large as could possibly have been expected under the circumstances I Early in the history of the organization organi-zation some help was obtained from the legislature but it was insufficient in-sufficient to meet the nods of the society and for several years prior to the meeting of the last legislature not dollar was appropriated appro-priated During the last session however Salt i Lake city tendered to the territory the ten acre plat of ground popularly known as the Tenth Ward square which had been pro viously used for agricultural purposes on condition that tho legislature would appropriate appro-priate the sum of 20000 to be expended in the years 18SS and 1SS9 and to be used in the erection of permanent territorial or state fur buildings and the improvement 3 |