Livestock Show Receives Grant
April 21, 1948
The Lassen County Livestock show has been granted $37,500 from the permanent Pari mutual improvement funds for construction of an all-steel grandstand at the fairgrounds, it was announced by Manager Abe Jensen.
Work will start in the spring of 1949.
Specifications and plans will be prepared, and bids collected this summer. The old wooden stand built in 1923, will be removed after the 1948 livestock show.
Daily use of the fair grounds is fast becoming a reality, Jensen said, inducing the storage of county equipment’ also utilized as playgrounds for children for field days, fairs and rodeos.
Sections also provide grass identification plots and alfalfa yield plots by the Extension service.
Another area is being used as a yield project by the Future Farmers of America.
It is stated the fair grounds may be used for an armory, and training site for a national guard unit, and night football games.
