Show WHAT OTHERS THOUGHT OF OUR FAIR In our local columna yesterday we O a column and a halt ar an tide clipped from the North Pacific c Rural Spirit acknowledged to Lo be one or of the lead leading Ins journals of the world This paper is published In Portland Oregon It Il sent one of ts best writers to Ogden to write lip up the Fall Fair exhibits The rho mans name Is Horace Addis He came direct from the Seattle worlds fair to Ogden n nand and said that our Fair ox was much greater than the Sc atLle Fair proportionatelY considerIng that the Ogden Fair covered but four fourteen our teen counties In four Cour states while the tho I Seattle Fair represented the world Jn In fact Mr Addis said If all the coun i tics In the United I States or on for that matter maLter In the tho world had made ex cx hibits In proportion to that or of the Four State Fair time Ule Seattle fair would have hao been ono on thousand times limes greater than it actually Is We repent repeat the tho above for the benefit or of a few fow of our who seem seam to think that our fair all was a small ex cx Then again there are aro a few ow Ogden lies les who have havo made the tho statement that thal the Fair was waR not larger than the Big Fair Fairo o of last year ear The difference between the two fairs Is so great that com Is ii out or of the question For Instance last year In tho kitchen hen and pantry department there were not a dozen entries yet jot this eal there thero wore several hundred bottles and jars in n that department This shows an Lu In Lucrease crease creaGe of over oer ono one thousand per cent Again I the he educational exhibit was one thousand per cent better boller than that of lust year Time The who visit the tho State Fair this year at al Salt Lal Lake e will miss the equal of the educational ox ex at Ogden Ogdon Then rhen again the thet I ng nb I a unit l horticultural was fully five flo hun hundred red per groat or th this year ear than last year Last year the main building and ono one small sinaI tent held all the exhibits while this year in addition to the building and the small tent there thore were buildings 35 b by feet each with exhibIts Last sear ear n tent tont feet Ceel was HUed with exhibits The Increase or exhibits this year ear over oer lat last year ear was as so great that im for a few jears more at atthe atthe the same ratio will make mako the tho fair Calr ex cx hibits so 50 extensive as to require not only four or Oe five buildings but a doz dozen dozen en or more The Tho special writer for the be Rural Spirit says that our exhibit was wa not appreciated He says sas that our exhibition or of sheep cattle callie and horses was of oC a very superior grade or of livestock We rc think ho bo is l mIstaken when ho he says that our livestock exhibit was not appreciated Wh Why people did not nol go 60 over to see the tho animals may mar be at al attributed to the tho wet weather It Il rain cd nearly the whole week and the ground was wet on the tho pathway to tho livestock exhibit The Tho present management of oC the fair Calr will retire thIs year ear but Is pleased to tomake make malco the tho foregoing statement as a an assurance that our big fair was not Only appreciated by the tho local people but has been boen looked upon by tho spec special I lal ial who ero sent here to write up imp the fair as beIng beyond az thing expected |