Show COMMENDABLE PROMPTNESS We have on our table a copy of the grand and special prizes as well as the rules and regulations of the fruit exhibit ex-hibit and bnilcy and hops competition ut the meeting of the National Irrigation Irriga-tion congress to be held In Ogden September Sep-tember IGth to ISth inclusive The action of tho persons In charge In thus promptly promulgating the rules and conditions governing the competition competi-tion Is to be commended Scarcely one week has elapsed since the announcement announce-ment of tho grandprizes and during that time the executive committee has met and formulated wellconsidered and explicit rules for the contest and has tent out copies of the premium lists to thousands of probable contestants The committee has acted upon broad lines befitting the wdc scope of the congress ami what It stands for Individuals and firms may compete for all the medals and special prizes provided the articles be grown by the exhibitors and under irrigation In the contest for the grand prize the 5500 silver loving cup the field is open to Individuals firms societies corporations counties States or Territories Terri-tories Those latter conditions place the exhibItion ex-hibition and contest on the broadest possible basis and they will operate to bring such a magnificent collection of fruit to Ogden as has never been seen > In the Vest heretofore From the time the fruit exhibition at Ogden was first suggested The Tribune has most heartily Indorsed the project and this paper has been the only one of the Salt Lake dallies to editorially set forth the supreme Importance of the af fair since the announcement of the grand prizes lias opened the competition to nil the States and Territories Included in arid America So confident arc we of the success of the exhibition and of the truly magnificent magnifi-cent fruits and the spirited competlon that we feel like congratulating In advance ad-vance all competitors whether successful success-ful or otherwise for having taken part In what will doubtless go Into history as the grandest exhibition of fruits ever seen In the West |