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Show PLAHSFDR191G STATE-FAIH HIE ALHEADYBEGUN People to Have Better Understanding Un-derstanding of Situation Before Next Exposition Exposi-tion Opens. FINANCIAL QUESTION ONE OF IMPORTANCE Two or Three ?7aii?y Days During Week Would Result Re-sult in Total Loss to Association. ' Xext- fall Utah will oelobrate it? chirty-eielith nnimn state fair. And before this exposition opens the citizens citi-zens of the state will have a clearer understanding and appreciation of all that, fair meaus oa:-h year in helpful development, in encouragement and inspiration in-spiration and in hard, yaiu staking work. Xot many ftabus realize the am omit, of-: unremittiujr work attendant on the organization and operation each year of the state fair work which (Involves upon the shoulders of the officers and directors of the I'tah State Jr'air association, asso-ciation, who serve tiio otiices to which thp- are appointed and" perform their duties without; compensation of any nature. Si ill fewpr are the citizens who re-ftlizo re-ftlizo the financial pioljlent that confronts con-fronts Presideut J. McDonald of the-StrUe ''air association and the board of direclois when the fair opens each year. The state legislature for povera'l cessions pnst h;is pprfjfriated '2,,000 for the fair association to use in giving two annual expositions. -This means an appropriation of $L'J,5uO each .vear for I'tah 'y fair. .? 15,000 Sot Aside. Take the fair jus t past, for instance. The appropriation of $ 12,500 was brouirht- up to 1.7o0 by special appropriations. ap-propriations. Of this amount $lo,00l had to bo innuediately set. aside for premiums and the expense of maintaining maintain-ing the. State Fair association's otiices throughout the year; $750 was appropriated appro-priated for now work on buildings and gnmnds; $200i had to be paid for insurance, in-surance, and $10UO for electrical equipment. equip-ment. There is a situation io ponder over. The day the ''air opens every cent 1 of money appropriated tor it by the state has been designated for a necessary purpose, and the fair swings open its gates flat ' 'broke,'' with a week or ten davs to run goo.'K weather or bad a.t, the end of which time approximately approxi-mately $30,1)00 must be paid out in cash for amusement attractions, rid vert ising :md publicity, assistant supervisors, employees em-ployees for 'buildings and grounds, dee-orations, dee-orations, music, police, and lire protection, protec-tion, the feed ami enre of animals in t he livestock department, electric, current cur-rent and a. dozen and one other neces-fc.nrv neces-fc.nrv expenses. Where does this $;t0,0u0 come from? A few hundred dnllars is received from space venters in the various buildings and departments of the fair; a f e w hundred dullars more comes from those who purchase concessions of an amusement amuse-ment nature; but tor the bulk of the ilVn Oi'in iii rim t Iim r miKt Vifi in ttfll in there is but one source gate receipts. re-ceipts. Sleepless Nights. Is it. a n y won d e r . then, that P i e si -dent McDonald and the men and women wom-en who form ihe board of directors of t he Utah fctate fair association have spont many an anxious day and many a sleepless night during fair week over weather conditions, knowing that one or two rjiiny days, with tiie attend-nut attend-nut decreat-c in people who come to the fair on such davs, will be aullicient to pull down gate receipts to a point below be-low the sum total of the fair's operating op-erating expenses, exclusive of premiums, pre-miums, i mil ranee and other lixed expenses ex-penses taken care of by the legislature's legisla-ture's a pi i r o p r i a r i 1 1 for the fa i r Meanwhile, prior to the opening of the fair, a lurge. sum of money has had . io bo expended by the president and Kiard of directors in I he rehabilitation, a Herat ion and improvement of grumids ami buildings. For ftily-oue wei-Us each ear the buildings of the state fair grounds are acaet and unused. If you hken the stale fair grounds and build-ingK build-ingK to any manufacturing plant; in Ihe slate you will appreciate in-onnlly that the maintenance of grounds and 'buildings 'build-ings is cert a in to require a good many dollars each year. Changes must be made in buildings to meet new eo editions edi-tions which arise at each fair; alteration altera-tion mm-t ho made, and the grounds kfpt in t'i vst - da1- eondit inn. The I'uilure, then, that one or two rainy days during fair week c;iu create may better be imagined than described. And it has been (he-e 'uny days which year nfter year the weather m;m tins meted out during fair nek that have pulled linwu the ynte receipts, the only source el' revenue the of fie in Is of the stale fair board have had to depend upon for the money with which to pav :io operating bills of (lie fair, includ-- includ-- i ug bills for I lie nm in tenn nee ami Hp-Keep Hp-Keep of rouiiiis and build'ugs. !aintcnanoc (.'csts. Th'M-e can be not the slightest question ques-tion tint I ha ' ex ery si ale ir in I ta.h in iei"uii ears would hae liow'n a clean pre' it annually could the gate receipts re-ceipts have be i n used e vum ely tor 1 1 if r;i I i i u .penses. instead of for' but ii opera t ii; u :no i main teunmv expense. It was v.ith a full real! "at ion oi this condition thai president "McDonald and tiie direct(M-s of the fair board faced the opening of ihe l;il5 expo-itiou. It w:is fin' this reason t Key dec "hied to hold, i lie fair ten days instead of a wrek. as in former yeais. h was their hop.: tiint durinc- the t'Ui days of the fair thev would be fo'i uual c eno;:i,li to ha e a ' toast five davs of sunshine, which in tu:n was expe-tr-d to hold the gate receipts re-ceipts up to I he nocesxirv and desired . p'i':nt. Then M . W eat henna n did I he unex . pe.'ted- he net oi,iy u'ave 'lie stale fair l'ie 'ias of ',.u--iiii:e, led ho added five more for good measure, and for the first j lime in many" years Utah's state fair; passed off without a drop of rain or a ! dav of inclement weather. I The result? j Every operating and maintenance ex- i pense bill was paid promptly and a net profit of $27.'(1.5S placed to the credit ol: the Utah State Fair assoeia- tion. The appropriation for the T915 fair by the state legislature amounted to $ IS, 750; tiie total cash receipts amounted amount-ed to $3,2U."2, and at the expiration oi' the fair the accounts receivable amounted to $d-7. The total expenso of the fair was $47,flo6.09. Strict Accounting. No bank or business house or iner- ' can tile establishment in the west is 'operated under a stricter system of accounting ac-counting than President McDonald and the board of directors use for Utah's state fairs. lvory night during the fair Secretary Horace Knsign lays before President McDonald Mc-Donald and the directors a report show- ' ing exactly where the fair stands in the matter of expenses and receipts up to that hour. An hour after the gates closed on the tOlo fair ihe president and board of directors knew Io a dollar the net profit on the ten-day export ion. Kvery dollar's worth of supplies-or work and everything else involving an outlay of money for the fair is purchased pur-chased by an order system, the orders being issued through tiie secretary's of-1 fice. and properly countersigned and an- ! thori.ed by each of several 'officials of the fair board. Pbins are nlrendv well under wav for he lOIii I'tah state fair, and just : as H'l.Vs fair broke all records, so it ; i a ntici pat ed that thorough planning land hard work will send the Hl(i cx-i cx-i position to an even higher mark. .! . it;. Mi-tVnahi is president of the state 'fair board; William C. Winder is first jvicc president; Charles A. Ziertier i.? I second vice president; Charles S. Burton Bur-ton is treasurer, and Horace S. Unsi'jn is secretary. Directors of Fair. i The director are J. (.i. McDonald of Salt Lake. William C. Winder of Salt Lake. John M. Seelev of Mt. Pleasant, Mis. Simon r.ambeiver of Salt Lake! ( h. -tries S. P.urtou of Salt Lake, William Wil-liam O. Kuudsou of Brick am Ci; v, Mrs. Louise ii. MeCune of Salt Lak J. K. Langford. Sr., of Salt Lake.' Charles A. Zienier of Oiidon, Frank J. Hewlett of Salt Lake. .V. W. Hendricks of Kvhinoitd and Preston G. Peterson of Prove. These oflCers un directors of the fa ir association sorr e it hout -a v oi rem inn" at hm cf anv sort, and devote I nianv weeks of their Time each vear to Cie work "f pvej-ariiiL: for and oii-eraiine, oii-eraiine, the state lair. |