226 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



JULY 13, 1911. 



Secretary placed an order for transformers and other equipment, 

 as per instructions of the executive committee, with the General 

 Electric Company, through P. B. Sawyer, Manager of the Des 

 Moines Electric Co., 



EXECUTIVE COM]\IITTEE MEETING. 

 JULY 22-27, 1911. 



Committee met with all members present. 



• It was agreed that space should be provided for an exhibit by 

 the U. S. Navy Department ; also space for an exhibit of the State 

 Fish and Game Department. 



■ The secretary was instructed to write J. Alex Sloan to put in 

 writing his proposition for putting on exhibition automobile races 

 by Ray Harroun and others and to exhibit moving pictures of the 

 500 mile automobile race at Indianapolis on July 4th. 

 ' The committee in charge of Old Settlers' Day presented a 

 proposition to admit free all old settlers who were residents of the 

 state at the time it was admitted into the Union, each to present a 

 credential signed by a county officer or an officer of an old settlers' 

 •association. The executive committee granted this privilege and 

 ^the use of the assembly tent on Thursday afternoon, August 31st. 



The superintendent of grounds was instructed to put new roofs 

 on ten cattle barns and horse barn No. 5. 



The committee approved orders placed with the Des Moines 

 Electric Company for transformers and electrical supplies, also 

 for 750 feet of ready wired sockets for outlining the stock 

 pavilion. 



The secretary was instructed to place .$15,000.00 tornado in- 

 surance on the machinery building as soon as the building was 

 completed. 



Contract was entered into with Potts Bros, for putting in an 

 .eight foot cement walk on the south side of Grand Avenue from 

 entrance to the street runing south along the east side of the 

 machinery building, and on the north side of Grand Avenue from 

 entrance to the bridge; the price to be 9 cents per foot, the same 

 as last year's contract with the above firm. 



