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Show SELLING THE FAIR GROUNDS ' William Glasman Tells of Hi Experience in Running a Fair and Why He Want the Grounds Cut Up Into Fifty-foot Lots and Sold at Public Auction He Says Somebody Must Foot the Bills of a Fair The Owners of the Ground Are Tired of Doing It Salt Lake Fair Gets $20,000 a Year and Runs Behind, Yet People Expect the Ogden Fair to Make Money Without With-out Any Help Whatever Of the selling of the Fair Grounds, e.r Mayor Glasmann said It Is a thame to sell the proptrt;. after all the trouble of the past In j building up the grounds If the grounds are sold the people of Ogden . (rill repret It within a fow fatTS, The race truck cost $4600, the new grand-stand grand-stand 14000, the stalls for cattle and noro $3500. and several thousand dollars for fencing and other im- pro' ements. I think !t was (17,000 ' that we expended In Improvements aiter the hurricane destroyed the bullrings and fences on the ground about eight years a;o The improvements improve-ments are of little value except for fair grounds and race track. I repeat, re-peat, It Is a shame to sacrifice all ' this only to rebuild It again In the future. Fair Drawing Card. "The fair, without doubt, stimulate! stimu-late! trade and brine a keen rivalry to excel In exhibits The general pas sender agent of the Oregon Short Line stated on the witness stand that north of Oeden his road sold more tickets to the Ogden fair In 1909 than It did to the State fair that same yenr from the same territory That means the Ogden fair brought people Into Ogden. A furniture man In Ogden Og-den stated that he sold more goods !n the fair week In 1H09 than any week In the history of his More and thr t he expected a big 'follow up' trjide. Other Ogden merchants, too can testify that the fair week brought trade from the outside. But that Is the history of every- town giving -fairs. That Is why Salt Lake llkos the fair Public Must Support Fair. "I managed the fair In 1908 and 1903 without a cent of salary or reward re-ward and gave free advertising In noth dally papers The Weber club each year assisted In raising $5000 i for the fair. Wllh that sum only can the fair In Ogden pay Its way. If the manager work without salary. The State fair In Salt Lake City n-reives n-reives about $20,000 per year from the state- yet the State fair never has paid a profit to the- state. If the Salt l.i.i- fair cannot pay on a donation of 180,000 liow can the Ogden fair pay without help0 I repeat, however, that if the managers of the Ogden fair. Including secretaries, clerks and supervisors, will donat" their pervlce frit that a donation of $5000 will, with good management, pull the Oe ! den fair through, but no more. Why Fairs Don't Pay ' Fairs are not Intended as profit j makers hnt tmiiroers of products land breeds. The public Is sufficiently sufficient-ly rewarded, if the competition and i rivalry between growers and breeders breed-ers results In better crops and better bet-ter breeds of live stock, poultry, etc . which Improves the general trade of the country The preidnt of the Jensen Orcamcrv company has announced that Utah la cured with dairy cows that give from 126 to 175 oounds of butter per year, when the-t-honld give from 300 to 400 pounds per year. The local fair Is the mean to bring about such improvements, '"'li nk what it would mean to Utah If our butter products could be doubled. dou-bled. The fair Is the great educator that could bring about surh a result f airs pay Indirectly, not directly But someone shouts, What do you do with the gate receipts" The Gate Receipts. ' Four thousand people at the Fair menns onehalf exhibitors. Only two thousand paid admissions at 25 conts each would be $500 the toUl gate re celpts for one whole day and for sli days It means $3000. Rig sum. i yon say Yet there are always three races per day with a $200, S3(0 and nj'iO purse, which makes $900 per daj or $5400 per week in race purseu Half of the race purges are usually paid as entrance fc; That would leave the gate recelpta to just about i the racing expenses. Where Ih the money to pay for j the advertising, preparation of the grounds, and the prizes and preml- ! urns for the product and breeds The Ml Ogden fair offered $8000 In! p 1 - and premiums Where will' Lbfl mo,,. , come from to pay the j prizes and premiums? The Salt i Lake fair get It from the stato, but ! Ogdr-n must get it from a generous public. Four thousand people at the 0;dcn fair Is a very large crowd more than really attended daily for fI da One half of the number would be exhibitors who hold free tickets on account of making exhibits exhi-bits That Is why the gate receipts are small for ,t big crowd "At Its last 'tockholders meeting, the Fair association offered to lcaae the grounds to the Weber club, or to anybody who would run the fair and pay the expenses. So one responded re-sponded There were plenty of men who would run the fair on a salary. If tomeone would pay the expenses, not otherwise "I believe where public donations are called for. there should be no paid salaries for management That Is why I made no charge In 1908 and 3909 I make this lenqthy statement he r. ue if hereafter, some people see a big crowd at a fair and estimate the crowd twice as big as It really is and then ask what becomes of the gats receipts they win DQdefitaa4. The receipts are never half what the people think they are, because one-huif one-huif of a fair crowd Is made up of ex h Ibi ton present to attend and care for exhibits, and live stock exhibitors DETI assistants. 'Ogden should pive a fair each year sad the people should support it liberally, but If the people of Ogden don't want a fair those of us stock-1 holders who have assessed our stock vear after year to pay the dcflclen cis and work for nothing are en titled to sell the grounds and divide I the money amon the stockholders, after paying the debts. I favor plot j ting the ground Into fifty-foot lots nnd selling the lots at public auction j to the highest bidder Yet a reason-ab.c reason-ab.c offer for the whole jtrounds will I not be refill d |