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Show ; STATE FAIgS. The State Fair this year was good, but not nearly so good as it should have been. There was not care "enough displayed in arranging and cata"-logueing cata"-logueing the exhibits; there were deficiencies in every direction which showed that while the general gen-eral management may have been all right, there ; was no. one man whose business it should have been to direct the receiving and labeling of exhibits. ex-hibits. There was a mistake we think in excluding exclud-ing exhibits from outside states. We should say, if our neighbors have finer horses, cattle, dogs, or chickens than Utah produces, let them come in and excite th desire to excel them at the next Fair. j; There were too many empty stalls where fine stock should have been on exhibition. There was too much dust. An hour's work of a sprinkling cart early in the morning each day would have . added vastly to the comfort of visitors; The races were a failure and the reason was no suffi- cient purses were hung up. If the Society could ' not afford, to do any better then the horse-men " should hav& been appealed to, for nothing in-i in-i sures a profitable Fair so certainly as a certainty I at some fine races will be pulled off. Men will not risk bringing high-priced horses here for thirty cents. If new structures are to be erected then some taste and executive ability should be called in to make sure of having them what is wanted. The present arrangement for live stock could be very much inproved. The present buildings build-ings should have been erected around a plaza, with a parade ground in the center, and all so arranged that the food supply could have been received from the rear. A little bit of management, manage-ment, a little exercise of good taste, a little higher conception of what a State Fair should be would give to visitors an entirely different impression from what they are liable to receive under present pres-ent arrangements. Plenty of men have clear brains, are faithful, industrious, conciencious, but they utterly lack in taste and in that order of ability required to organize or-ganize with economy and taste the grounds for a State Fair, and utterly lack the prescience to discern in advance what exhibitors and the public want, and the executive ability to have things prepared and exhibits so placed as to satisfy those wants. This is not offered in a complaining spirit but for the good of the Society and the best interests of the State. State Fairs should be of universal benefit, for the furtherance of every industry, for enlargement enlarge-ment and improvement in every field of honest endeavor. They should teach in object lessons what all people want to know, and such a school should be presented in the most attractive forms possible. I |