Show mm SALTAIR TRACK IRACK IS NOW HOW ASS ASSUR D Contract ct Let for Immediate Construction Construction With Orders to Rush it Through A contract was signed yesterday esterd y by Manager Langford of the Saltair com corn company pany with Silver Sliver Bros Lake tor lor the construction of the new bicycle track at Saltair Ever since it was proposed to build the track at the lake resort there has been much discussion among the tile cycle fans of the city as to whether it would be really built or not but the let letting J ting tinS of the contract removes the last doubt that might have existed Manager Langford did not care to give the amount of money mone involved but it Is believed bellev d to be between and and this amount will give some idea of the kind of track to be built when it is known that th t the original cost of the Salt Sait Palace saucer was wag under The plans call for a track The track itself will be sixteen feet wide in inthe inthe Inthe the stretches which is about the width of the Salt Palace saucer The banks will willbe willbe willbe be slightly steeper than the Salt Palace saucer and In the steepest place will be built at an angle angie of almost 50 degrees Seats will be arranged for people which is about the same capacity as the Salt Palace saucer The rhe inside of oC the arena will be boarded over to take care of the tile overflow crowds Around the In Inside Inside Inside I side of the track Is to be built a twelve foot runway allowing the riders a place to start and at the same time a place to fall The arena proper is dropped two feet below this platform and will not ob oh obstruct obstruct the view across the tract tracK when crowds gather in the center of the track The track will be constructed over the file lake south and east ea t of the pavilion prop proper er err and will be supported d by b steel pillars set on cement foundations Over the whole will be constructed a roof resting on ln steel Columns and supported by steel arches The columns supporting the roof will be placed on the outside of the track proper or the inside tier of seats This will do away with posts of all kinds in inthe inthe inthe the center of the track The sides of the thc track above aboc the seats scats and beneath the roof root are made of sliding glass windows so the entire track can be enclosed in case of cold weather or a storm Mr Ir Langford said that work upon the construction of the th track would start as soon as the material could be hauled to t Saltair and that the contract called for forthe forthe the completion of the track by May Ia 29 0 This will make it possible to open on Dec Dee Decoration Decoration oration day and give the riders a few days das In which to get used to the track trac before the races start |