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Show EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR ATTRACTIVE Visitors Are Interested in Display Installed by Land Merchants. One of the features of the stale fair each year which always ai tracts favorable favor-able attention from young and old Is the . big exhibit of Kimball & Richards, land merchants, for the pant seven years this well-known real estate firm has conducted conduct-ed an Interesting "land show" at the fair and each year the exhibits have been better and more costly. In keeping with their policy, Kimball & Richarda have this year built t lie rinest land show display dis-play ever seen in the state, and early visitors vis-itors at the fair are loud In their praise Of this beautiful exhibit. Throughout this big display an attractive attract-ive color scheme of green, white and red has been maintained, in interesting detail, de-tail, the various departments of Kimbail & Fttchards'a maiiy-wlded business have been worked out in miniature. A section of the exhitait la devoted to the city lot and home business, allowing a typical residence street. In a modern sulxll vision, with a group of homes. A delightful planting of Mowers, lawns, shrubbery and trees makes this a finished homeplace, which will attract the attention of children chil-dren from o to ftO years of age. Another section of the exhibit ehows a typical half-acre garden plat, with actual growing oropa of vegetables. Every detail de-tail of the home surroundings, even to the garage, chicken runs, fences, orchard and the homo itself, has been faithfully worked out In miniature. At night the tiny house-' is lighted with electric lights, much to the delight of visitors. Still another large portion of the display dis-play shows a typical 320-acre farm at Downey, Idaho, where Kimbail & Richards are exclusive agents for a large Irrigation project. This is one of the finest bits of jninlature display work ever eeon In Utah an4. le thoroughly interesting and educational. educa-tional. The big farm has been divided into dry and irrigated sections, and an Irrigation canal, with real running water, winds Its way along the hillside. A good rrop of fall grain is already up, giving the distant hills a touch of green. Beet find alfalfa fields with growing crops, a iiay field, a hillside orchard, a well-etocked well-etocked meadow and pasture, are among the realistic details shown. The farm-' farm-' house, with garage, granary, barns, silo and surroundings, has been carefully reproduced. re-produced. The exhibit also shows a model city fcome, representing the work of the city listing department of Kimball & Richards, Rich-ards, which sells homes in all parts of the city. One of the striking features of the display dis-play is a series of attractive shields or banners mounted on the fences which inclose- the exhibit. These have been arranged ar-ranged so as to be easily read from any angle, and tell In brief story the many phases of Kimball & Richards service. The object of the display is to show the work of this big realty firm in city building and In furnishing homes and farms lo a large circle of customers. The detailed work of the exhibit has been built by 'Louis O. Kimball and Ernest R. Kimball, assisted in the farm department bv K. T. Capener. and In general preparation prepara-tion by Strinsham A. Stevens, advertising advertis-ing manager, and by other members of the firm. H is the general consensus of opinion that this display by far excels any former exhibit of Kimball & JUe hards. |