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27th of July. I went down there and took hold of it. Mr. Holcomb 

 preceded me in the work there. The buildings were all to build. We 

 planned what was constructed and, I want to say, by the way, that the 

 improvements on the grounds there meant an aggregate of about $43,000. 

 This is a pretty good improvement for a new county and district fair. 

 The entire investment, including the land, amounted to a little over 

 $62,000, in the land and buildings. When we got our buildings built and 

 ready for our fair, it started, or opened up, on Saturday, which was an 

 unusual day for a county or district fair to open on. I guess the Cedar 

 Valley Fair is the only fair outside of the state fair that has opened on 

 any other day than the first day of the week — Monday or Tuesday. We 

 opened up on Saturday and the elements were disturbed and bad weather 

 set in and remained with us throughout Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, 

 which precluded any large attendance on those days, and it did look 

 very discouraging to us at that time. However, we were persistent and 

 felt sure that Dame Fortune would smile on us the latter part of the 

 week, and she did, and, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we had an 

 attendance that was remarkable. Our total attendance at the fair down 

 there for the six days was 36,234, the attendance being practically all 

 the last three days of the fair, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 



DISCUSSION. 



Delegate: You planned a six day fair did you? 



Mr. Stanbery : We planned for a six day fair. We commenced 

 Saturday and closed Friday night the following week. 



In the fair organization down there, — I don't want to take 

 credit for doing all of this work myself, because I did not. T 

 only did a very small part — I want to say that no county fair, 

 district fair, or any other kind of work can succeed without proper 

 organization. I want to say that the men connected with the 

 fair down there are certainly the biggest and best bunch of 

 boosters I ever became connected with. Every one of them on 

 the job and every department took as much interest in the fair as 

 I did myself and they put in a lot of unselfish work both before 

 and after the fair and it was through their cooperation and 

 through their efforts and work and organization that we were 

 able to hold a fair there with such remarkable success consider- 

 ing that it was our first fair. Our net profits after all bills were 

 paid were right close to $2,000, $1,956 to be accurate. We went 

 into it rather heavily and took some chances ; in fact, took a lot of 

 them. Our free attractions alone cost us a little over $4,000, not 

 counting the prizes in horse racing. Our prizes for horse racing 

 were $3,500 or $3,600 in addition to that. Our total receipts were 

 nearly $13,000 during the six days of the fair. Our expenses 



