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Show ill EXHIBITS TO BE Oil LARGE SCALE Most Elaborate Ever Seen in Utah Promised for State Fair. COMMITTEE IS ACTIVE City Commissioners Will Be Urged to Decorate Down-town Streets. One of the largest and finest mineral and mines exhibits ever shown in any western state will be on exhibition in the mineral building at the state lair this fall, if plans inaugurated yesterday by the executive committee of the directors di-rectors of the Utah State Fair association associa-tion are successfully consummated. At a meeting of the executive con;- mittee of the directors at the Hotel Utah at noon yesterday, steps were taken ta-ken to .get in immediate touch with the most prominent mining operators in the state and to exert every .effort and influence toward the installation of a mineral exhibit at the state fair that will exceed everything of the kuid that has preceded it in this state. View of President. "With mining the first industry in Dtabj it is imperative, in the judgment of the executive committee oi the directors di-rectors of the Utah State Fair association, associa-tion, that we secure a mineral exhibit that in pretentiousness and interest will be commensurate with the place which mining occupies in Utah's activities,''' said President J. G. McDonald at yesterday yes-terday 's meeting. ''We will be satisfied with nothing but the best this year, and the directors direc-tors of the State Hair association fee) that they can safely promise the public pub-lic that this year's state fair will open with the finest exhibition of minerals and mine operations possible to secure. se-cure. ' ' President McDonald, Charles S. Burton, Bur-ton, W. C. Winder, Frank J. Hewlett and Horace S. Ensign were present at yesterday's meeting. The entire body of directors of the state fair, will meet at 7 o 'clock this evening at the roof garden of the Hotel Utah for one of the most important business meetings preceding final preparations for this year's fair. Pinkertons in Charge. The Pinkerton National Detective agency will again this year have entire charge of all turnstiles and admission gates at the' fairgrounds,-and Pinkerton detectives will be everywhere on tho grounds, in order that the public may be afforded the best possible protection protec-tion during the ten da vs of the fair. Pinkerton detectives will be at each turnstile at the main entrance to the fairgrounds, and Pinkertons will also be located at all admission gates inside the grounds, in addition to the detectives, who will mingle with the crowds. Another important matter taken up by the executive committee of the directors di-rectors at yesterday's meeting was the proposition to secure decoration of the down town streets by the city commissioners. commis-sioners. A committee composed of C. S. Burton and J. G. McDonald was appointed ap-pointed to wait on the city commissioners commission-ers at once and request that the city commission appropriate sufficient money to decorate six or seven blocks of the business section, similar to the decorations decora-tions the city put up for the Wizard of the Wasatch carnival. |