NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IV 
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made from fair receipts, bringing the total amount expended on improve- 
ments at the State Fair and Exposition Grounds to one hundred ninety- 
eight thousand seven hundred dollars within the past seven years, every 
dollar of which came from fair receipts. In that same period appropria- 
tions to the amount of one hundred and fifty-nine tnousand dollars were 
made by the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-second General Assem- 
blies, for the erection of the stock pavillion, agricultural building and 
swine barn. It can readily be seen by this statement of facts that no 
small amount of work for the betterment of the State Fair and Exposi- 
tion is annually made from the net profits of the fair. To the equipment 
there was added the present year an Administration Builamg, the second 
section of the proposed horse barn, extension to the electric light and 
power plant, new walks laid and improvements to streets continued, the 
remodeling of old buildings to better suit the purposes for which they 
must be used, and many other improvements of a minor nature. 
The following table shows the amounts expended for permanent im- 
provements within the past seven years: 
From moneys From moneys Total amount 
taken from appropriated by 
fair receipts. 
1902 $26,400.00 
1903 18,000.00 
1904 12,600.00 
1905 12,000.00 
1906 30,000.00 
1907 41,400.00 
1908 58,300.00 
Total $198,700.00 
the general 
assembly. 
$37,000.00 
47,000.00 
75,000.00 
$159,000.00 
permanent 
improvements. 
$63,400.00 
18,000.00 
59,600.00 
12,000.00 
30,000.00 
116,400.00 
58,300.00 
$357,700.00 
NEEDED ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT FOR THE STATE FAIR AND EXPOSITION GROUNDS. 
We hardly know where to begin, or stop, in mentioning the many needed 
improvements before the grounds is adequately equipped to properly 
shelter the exhibits and handle the crowds, or in keeping wath the pace 
set by other states in building up their state fairs. At the Canadian 
National Exposition at Toronto more money was used in the construc- 
tion of an amphitheater than the State of Iowa has all told put into 
buildings at the State Fair grounds. The plant at that place is now 
valued at approximately one and one-half million dollars. The State of 
Ohio places a value of one million upon their state fair grounds; they 
have no buildings but what are constructed of steel, concrete and brick, 
and are annually adding to the equipment. Illinois has a grounds wuth 
improvements of even greater value than Ohio. In Missouri, the youngest 
of the galaxy of state fairs now maintained by all of the best states, in 
the seven years of its existence they have set the pace in the construction 
of buildings and other equipment by constructing fire-proof buildings. 
Over five hundred thousand dollars has been appropriated by the Missouri 
legislature for buildings since its establishment seven years ago. 
In Iowa we need: 
