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Show IRON COUNTY FAIR IN RILL SWING ) Creditable Showing in Agricultural nnd Ladies' Departments Horse-Racing Horse-Racing the Principal Amusement. Lnst Wednesday morning, and over lapping tho home-coming for one day, the Iron County Fair opened at Parowan, Par-owan, with a fair showing at tho exhibition ex-hibition building. The exhibits wero arranged In the two fronfc first floor rooms of the District School building. While the showing is not as extensive as it might have been, what there is of it is exceedingly good. Tho Ladies' department leads in quantity as well as quulity of the work, and if all the other departments ndvortised wero as well supplied, the exhibition would be pnr excellence. The Agricultural nnd Horticultural departments arc next in importance and extent, and some excellent ex-cellent products nrc shown. There were some very creditable dairy product!), pro-duct!), and a number of other departments depart-ments were represented, but a number, num-ber, alsosuch as the mineral department, depart-ment, weio conspicuous for their nb-sencc. nb-sencc. There were some good specimens speci-mens of brick such ns arc made in the Parowan valley, and the Co-op. Store of Parowan had an extensive exhibition of its wares. No admission is charged to the exhibition ex-hibition and the attendants in charge are courteous and obliging. The Live Stock exhibition, which is locnted out at the race track, contains con-tains some splendid specimens of blooded sheep, a few cuttle and a few horses. The sheep arc especially dn-seiving dn-seiving of notice, for they represent some of tho choicest animals of this kind in the state, including Ramboui-lettes, Ramboui-lettes, Lincolns, Cotswolds, nnd others. oth-ers. But it was apparent that not as much interest was taken in the exhibits ex-hibits as should have been. Hoise-Racing is Feature. Horse-racing formed a promfnent feature of the amusements, and notwithstanding not-withstanding a number of horses that had been expected did not put in an appearance, there were some very ex citing nnd close contests, particularly on the opening day of the fair. Walter Wal-ter Granger's mare defeated tho Bladen Bla-den bay In tho half mile raco for three year olds. Silver Star, owned by Gurr of Parowan, won from Lid-dington, Lid-dington, owned by Bladen of Cedar City. Waif, the Bladen mare, won the one-fourth milo race. There was nn absence of jockeying on the start and the races were gotten off promptly when called, which was a decided improvement over previous years. Thursday Red Cloud, owned by G. M. Spilsbury of Toquerville, was entered en-tered nnd all the local horse men took to the timber. Tho horses that were expected to compete with Red Cloud went to Richfield, leaving him in a class by himself, into which the other horsemen did not caro to enter. For a time this seemed likely to queer the races of the day, but finally it was decided to let him compete for the $120 purso hung up for the half mile heat race, a saddle horse being entered en-tered against him, just to keep up appearances. ap-pearances. After having run theso two half milo heats a local horse man took courage and entered his horse against tho favorite In the three-fourths three-fourths milo race, but it was benten apparently just ns easily ns the- saddle horse was that was entered in the heat race. Red Cloud's trainer clnims that he can turn the Parowan half-mile track in 50 seconds flnt, nnd the animal may be matched to run against this time. Ench evening a dance is given in each of the halls, and the young people peo-ple of tho surrounding towns, ns far as Cedar City, come in considerable numbers to nttend. Next issue wo will attempt to publish pub-lish a complete list of tho winners of tho more important prizes. |