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Show All la Readiness For State Fuir U tali's great State fair is ready for its formal opening Monday, Sept. 27, in Salt Lake. With the great (rounds beautifully decorated, with Bags and bunting whipping in the breeze on every building, with thousands of dollars worth of wonderful and beautiful exhibits ex-hibits housed in teaming structures on the State fair grounds, Utah's greatest annual exposition will swing open its gates on September 27th under un-der more auspicious circumstances than have ever before attended 'the opening of a State fair. It will be the most remarkable and stirring assemblage of the products of Utah's mines, nulls, fields and schools any western state has known in many years. The state horticultural building banked high with the state's most beautiful fruits and vegetables and grains; the mineral building with its vast exhibits of Utaii's mines; the manufacturers' building with its scores of booths with throbbing, pulsing puls-ing machinery; the merchants' building; build-ing; the woman's department, the tine arts and crafts division; and the great livestock show with its hun areas 01 Dlooaetl horses, swine, cattle and poultry-ofi'er the greatest educational edu-cational attraction in the history of Utah's State fairs. Reports from all over the state indicate in-dicate that many more thousands will attend this year's State fair in Salt Lake than ever before. The re-: re-: duced rates on all railroads, and the fact that the fair is to be held for ten full days, beginning Monday, September Sep-tember 27 and closing Wednesday, Oct. 6th is attrrcting many additional visitors. Salt Lake has provided a royal entertainment en-tertainment for the crowds. The streets are gaily decorated; scores of bands have been provided, and the Fair association has arranged the greatest line of sensational attractions attrac-tions possible to obtain. The automobile races on the mile dirt track on the Fair grounds the first three days of the Fair will find one of the biggest automobile racing drivers in the world behind the steering steer-ing wheels of 300-horse power automobiles. auto-mobiles. Irwin Bros. Wild West shows, with 200 head of stock and over 150 of cowboys, cowgirls and Indians, is to show twice daily; Lucielle Belmont, the daring aeriel wonder, will make a balloon ascension ascen-sion daily and return to earth in three 1 separate parachutes. In addition to these attractions over half a dozen other sensational shows have ben secured for free open-air exhibition in the afternoon and for the big shpws in the arena of the collisem at night. Salt Lake hotels, restaurants and rooming houses have made unusual provisions for taking care of the crowds this year, and in addition to extra police protection by the Salt Lake City police force, the State Fair management has arranged for a large number of Pinkerton detectives to be constantly on the Fair grounds thru-out thru-out the ten days of the fair. On every baud is heard the prediction predic-tion that this year's Fair will ba the largest in the history of Utah. |