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Show COUNTY EXHIBITS DESIRABLE. The plea mado by Secretary D. F. Collctt of tho Manufacturers' Association Associa-tion of Utah, for county exhibits, is excellent. The idea is to have first-class first-class fegregated county exhibits at the "Manufacturers' Association headquarters headquar-ters in this city, so that, visitors can at all times see what the counties can produce and which counties excel in the various articles of production. Thirteen counties are now represented repre-sented at the headquarters of the Association, As-sociation, in the Vermont Building; but fourteen have not responded to frequent fre-quent and urgent appeals to be represented repre-sented there by their exhibits. It is to bo hoped that the counties not now' represented will come to the front with their best, so thai all visitors to Utah can see at once and compare "for themselves them-selves just what is to be preferred in every county. There is a practical value to this sort of exhibit which the counties themselves them-selves evidently lose sight of when they fail to respond to the invitation to "be represented as requested by Secretary Sec-retary Collett. Colonists or tourists, wiio come here looking for homes, know what particular products they are best qualified by their experience to raise and to handle. They are looking- for places where their spceialites can bo best and most profitably applied, and when they see by the exhibits at the Manufacturers' Association headquarters headquar-ters which county produces in the greatest great-est perfection tho article which they are most familiar with and can raise to the greatest perfection, that is where they will go. Besides the aggregate of such expenditures will make a splendid splen-did showing in mass for the State as a whole. In this connection, we woud urge again, as wo have done frequently before, be-fore, the importance of counties being represented, as such, at the State Fair, j The exhibits so made at tho Slate Fair, so 'far as they are not perishable, conld with advantage bo transferred to the headquarters of tho Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' Association, there to remain until superseded by something better from the saino county. The county exhibits could thus serve tho double purpose of competing at tho State Fair and making the hest showing of what the county produces in tho finest form and to the best advantage, and then transferring the unperishable portion to the Manufacturers' Association exhibit. ex-hibit. The two purposes combined should certainly induce those counties that have not done so, to send in their exhibits, and to spur on the others to yet more strenuous efforts. We litest that Secretary Collett 's appeal ap-peal will not longer be disregarded and. tthat.he will. have the satisfaction of seeing about him a permanent exhibit ex-hibit that will bo the pride of tho State and the joy of his hoart. |