Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1908 — INDIANA STATE FAIR FIGURES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE FAIR FIGURES

Attendance Largely Increased Over That of Ijast Year and Receipts , $4,000 Higher. Indianapolis, Sept. 15. Treasurer Jasper Lagrange, of the state board of agriculture, has revised his figures on the attendance at the state fair week and gives the total for the exposition during the day and the horse shows at night as 129,602. Although there •was a slump in the number of visitors on Thursday and Friday, as compared with last year, the increases on tlie earlier days of the week sent the totals higher than for the fair last year, when 107,400 paid to see the expos! tion. While it will be ten days before the exact figures can be reached It is thought that the receipts for last week amobnted to $.85,000, mostly from gate admissions, an increase of aliout $4,000 over the fair a year ago. The profits ■will probably reach $15,000. The profits may be SB,OOO or slb,ooo less than last year, although the earnings were larger. One reason for this is that the premium list carried last week was $7,000 more than a year ago and that there were a number of other additional expenses last week.