| Show THE MIDWINTER liAIR I Will Be Probably Six Weeks Before Be-fore it Is Really Ready Mr George A Knox of the Godbe Pitts Drug company returned to Salt Lake on Friday night after a five weeks visit to the coast where he meta met-a host of old friends and had a good I time generally Contrary to expectations expec-tations he returned alone tatons I Asked as to the progress being made S at the fair Mr Knox said while Herculean Her-culean work was being done progress Iwas S rather slow There were several counties in the state that really had made no showing as yet the buildings having been scarcely completed A month or six weeks from now he thinks will be time enough in which to visit the show The dime museums the catchpennies and all the fakes ever seen on the face of Gods green earth are there and appear to be doing do-ing a most excellent trade but the exhibition proper is really not open to the public Of the Utah exhibit Mr Knox said I So far as Utah is concerned I saw nothing of her exhibit A large number num-ber of boxes and crates were being opened last Tuesday but none of the articles had been put in place when I left on Thursday morning Utah has a very good position and it is really too bad that her exhibit should not have been properly placed before this What about the attendance I Well I am very much afraid that it is far below what the promoters of the fair imagined it would be There is a i gradually growing feeling that the fair will be a failure financially no matter hoW much good to the state may come incidentally The papers are working heroically to make a good showing and if industry and tact can win then the fair will be a success I They are hoping against hope though not as a matter of fact arc they notWell Well I am loyal to California said the genial druggist and there were several volumes in the significant shrug if his broad shoulders I I The great trouble seems to be he I continued in the railway The Southern I South-ern Pacific has got the bulge on all I travelers and that road is just about a unaccommodating as a corporation could possibly be I should probably have remained several days longer and I know of others who were desirous desir-ous of lingering on the shores of the Pacific but an extension of the ticket limits was an impossibility save by i the payment of an outrageous extra charge What of the snow in the Sierras5 I I was something remarkable I verily believe that we came through cuts where the snow towered above us as high as the McCornick building Hundreds of men have been and are now employed in shoveling snow and I as most of these were out of employment employ-ment itis the old story that ltis an Jl I wind that blows nobody good |
