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Show GREAT STATE FAIR. The annual State Fair opens Monday at the fair grounds, and it will probably prove to be one of the biggest and most successful expositions of the kind ever held here. The event has taken on a greater significance this year than ever before, and the scope of the various departments has been so greatly extended extend-ed and the work of preparation so thoroughly done that the success of the fair seems already assured to a higher degree than at any time in the past. Everything is in readiness, and the exhibits ex-hibits will be in place in the various buildings before the hour of opening Monday. The purses offered for the races assure come excellent sport in" that quarter, and the midway is to be handled by an amusement company which has guaranteed to make that part of the fair sufficiently interesting inter-esting to prove one of the big drawing cards of the week. In the live stock exhibit the entries of N. M. Hamilton of Salt Lake have already attracted" a great deal of attention among the owners k blooded stock and others interested in high grade cattle. Mr. Hamilton's importations of blooded and pedigreed cattle the last year or two include some of the finest and most costly stock ever brought into the western country, and in entering them in the live stock department of the fair their owner Is doing much to raise the standard of such exhibits. Utah's state fair is gradually drawing to the front rank of yearly state expositions, and the attendance has so greatly increased the past season sea-son or two that the Fair Association has prospered pros-pered financially as well as in experience. The conference crowds which will begin to arrive early next week, -will swell the gathering this year, and it will be strange if attendance records are not broken. A dozen big features are announced an-nounced for the amusement and entertainment of the visitors, aside from the paid attractions on the grounds. The instructive and representative exhibits were never so complete and interesting and they represent an investment of many thousands of dollars. The fair will be open each day and evening during the week. |