Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-01 | Page 6 | The "Carnival of Counties"

THE "OABOTVAIi OP COUNTIES." One of the best as well a one of tho newost features of tho present State Fair is the Carnival of Counties, including in-cluding tho unified exhibits of the different dif-ferent counties, tho county Queens and the general set-up of the county advantages advan-tages as displayed. Wo consider this not only perhaps the greatest feature of the Fair, but the ono that is subject to tho moBt extensive development of any. The countios can make tho Fair not only groat for the Stato at largo, but great for every locality in the State. By active local intorest and the pushing push-ing of the choico products of every locality lo-cality in tho State for exhibit at the Fair the counties can bring together at the State Fair a collection of attractions attrac-tions that it would bo quite impossible otherwise to obtain. The prosiding of a (Jueen, chosen by each county lor itself, to bo the chief adornment of tho exhibits is an excollonfc idoa, and ono that will doubtless grow in favor with tho peoplo as the yoarB go by. The county exhibit idea haB for the first time had a "fair start in Utah. This is not to say that there hayo not been fine county exhibits horotofore, for there have been. Box Elder, Cache, and .other oounties havo done. well in tbe past in this respoct, but these exhibits liavo been Bporadic, and but few of tho counties have taken advantage of tho opportunity to presont their nnifled exhibits. ex-hibits. This year, however, thero has been a gcnoral consensus among the counties that the best thing they can do is to make a unified exhibit, each, county for itself, and further development de-velopment will bring it to perfection. We suggest that thero Bhould not only bo the continuance of the exhibit, a Queen and a general boost for the county, coun-ty, but that each, county shall havo a pamphlet or leaflets for freo distribution, distribu-tion, sotting forth tho advantages and tho development of tho county, year by year. ThiB would be a feature in which tho local newspapers of every county could, and doubtless would bo VJillinn' in rnnilnr nf Vaoi-!-n The county exhibits, as oxplainod, while tending to advanco tho intorest of tho counties and to earn for the countios tho praise which they will naturally draw, will not in any way deprive individual exhibitors of their rights, privileges, and claims. It is no part of tho idea of a county exhibit in thiB consolidated form, to put individual in-dividual exhibitors at a disadvantage. On the contrary, a great exhibit from any count" would naturally draw special spe-cial attention to that county and would help to gain the prize for any individual exhibit from that county which has special merit. This foaturo of the Fair is well begun, be-gun, it is a fine success as an initial effort, and it is capablo of development that will astonish tho people year after year as tho county exhibits are got together, to-gether, enlarged, and presented.