Show fj COAST PROMOTERS PLAN TO TOA CONSTRUCT HERE i A for Salt lake to be run as part of a circuit c of three tracks consisting of the present Los Angeles and one oneto oneto i to be built at Oakland is the plan of Jack Prince and associates builders 7 7 of the Los Angeles track The promoters of the Salt Lake track plan to toT T have it in operation by May Nay 20 The track will be built to accommodate accommodate accommodate date both motors and automobiles and the cost will reach This ThIB was wn wa the statement yesterday of ot Theo Thea Samuelson who Is representing Prince In Salt Lake Mr Samuelson who Is one of ot the motor riders said that he had received definite assur assurance ance that the track was a go and that Prince would be here within two weeks to start tho tb project Options on two tracts of ground on South State street have been secured and the local agent says sass that everything will be ready to start work as soon as the Los Angeles people arrive to close the deals Races on Sunday Sunda afternoons and two nights a week are planned The track will willbe willbe be constructed on the same lines as the mile at Los Angeles only as it will be but halt half as large the bank will be steeper to hold the same speed The following letter from Mr Prince to Theo Samuelson briefly explains the plans of oC the new enterprise Prince Writes Los Angeles March 28 Theo Thee Samuel Samuelson t son Salt Lake City CIt I Dear Sir Your Tour letter lett iett r at hand I am f sure to be In Salt Lake City before the I first of May and shall build a strictly I track for motorcycle cle cl racing and also automobile racing My mind is fully full made up and I am already making plans to that effect I have commenced to arrange my m lumber so get the location ready read so 50 there will be beno beno beno no hitch when I come comeI I shall do as you suggested and sign all the good riders to appear in Salt Lake LakO this summer I have sent a contract to Joe Merkle Merkie ordering six power Ower racing machines the best bt st he can c get out to keep at our Salt Lake track for the season so you ou can see we are losing Io ing no time I will have the track finished in good shape and a grandstand all around and ready to open Ma MayO May 20 O With a fore force of 2 men I can build the track In 30 days das daysI dasI I am going to bring two racing raring automo biles bites and we will put wind shields on the back of them for tor paced races for bicycles Kith their wheels gared g ared up to 20 miles In 20 minutes should be bethe bethe the tile clip W We will give Salt Lake the highest grade Brade rade of sport that was ever witnessed ed edIn In any part of the world because I wll will build this track so strong and substantial that It will hold any car we can put on it Signed JACK PRINCE I Lumber Ordered M 1 Samuelson says that Prince has completed arrangements at Seattle for forthe forthe forthe the lumber r The track will be built ou OUt of two by b fours and will be put up to stay sta The plans will call for an elor elec electric trie plant to light the track at night I 1 am firmly convinced that Mr Princ Prine la is I going through with the project said Samuelson yesterday esterday While I was in InLo Los Lo Angeles two months ago h he ex expressed expressed expressed pressed his enthusiasm over Salt Lake Latee as a motorcycle and automobile racing town and said that he was going through I have received l later messages from Mm him which say everything Is O 0 K 1 Prince has a patent on the plank tracks and controls th tb plank racing on the coast for tracks ov Ocr r of a mile He has hils th F A M 1 franchise on the coast and I know that he will have no HO difficulty difficult In getting th Utah territory I While the track will be for automo automobiles automobiles biles hUes and motorcycles we wilt will put on some paced races for the cyclists and plan to bring the best in the country here I expect word from Mr Prince within a few days saying that he is on the way here The opening of the Los Angeles will keep him for a week or more but he will ill be hera here as soon as he can get away We Ye do not plan to run In opposition to the Salt Palace saucer as we believe there will be room for both I branches of the plank track sport I |