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Show I SPLENDID RAGE TRACK IS ASSURED FOR SALT LAKE, Fins Tract ef Land Secured at the Fort of the Main Street Bouievard. Company Being Formed to Back the Enterprise With $100,000 Capital. Track Will Be, One Mile, and Will Mean Races of the Best for , Utah. 'jfc . TITHIN the next sixty days work Mmt vAI will begin In this city on one y of the finest race trades and club grounds between the- Mls-Bourl Mls-Bourl river and the coast. Options have V been secured on sixty acres of ground J;m just "below Twelfth South at the foot of MM tho Main street boulevard, and it was announced yesterday that work would i V begin as soon as the details arc com- pletod. 1 V The ground has already been sur- Bb II veyed and the stakes have beecn placed H for a mile track. The estimated cost of Bf' the- track and grounds is $100,000 and Wjm almost all , of the necessary money has V', been secured. Local men ar backing BV the enterprise, prominent among whom T i are W. S. Hall Sam S. Porter and C. V. f j r Lawrence. B , Good Nevs for Horsemen. gijA Horsemen of this city will no doubt mi, A hail the construction of a mile track LJ -with delight. For years past this has BBJhJ been the one insurmountable obstacle Btfl to pood racing, and now that the bav-HfVj bav-HfVj rirr is al)OUt to be torn awny the lovers Hifl at thoroughbreds will throw their hats m In the air and shout lor joy. - With a rogulatlon trucl: in ths city the sport-M sport-M loving public can now see some of the Bj ' bHt racing In the West. JV Tn addition to promoting horse. racing:. Li th t5mpany owning the new track will anVuige to have automobile races, ath-3f ath-3f lotl- games, polo tournaments and a m hln-class horse nhow will be given 1 'H" each year, similar to the ones held in vi c-vorv city of magnitude in the country. ;Wt Tll interior of the track will be nodded and fitted up for a polo ground J J and the track-owners will endeavor to lil t make this sport popular in this city, jll I Location Is Ideal. more suitable location could haw If at bH-n secured anywhere near the city. flittS new tracl Avl11 ave entrances on WSv State street, the Main street boulevard ifXa ini'l the lied wood road on West Temple ifm street. The grounds extend from State street to the Oregon Short Line tracks W-1 on First West and from Twelfth South Jkk Ui the Part City branch of the Rio Grande Western. BJt The track will be oval-shaped, the mi principal direction being east and west. B I A large grand stand -will be built on the B I north side of the track, almost opposite B the Main street entrance to the 1 L grounds. The stables and paddocks will B v situated on the southern and wqst- B f )j ern s,de r tne track- W I.J i A feature of the new racing park will lrif a clubhouse for the use of the wlml cluD members and their friends. The I structure wllll be commodlously fitted I ' SI up and will have a roof garden from I j? which the club members may view the I 'J' I 7 The idea of the promoters is. as one L1 f of them expressed it yesterday, "to pro-mi pro-mi mote every branch of clean pport." It vffl I Is their Intention to place Salt Lake on Mb the California, racing circuit and fur-BJ fur-BJ nlsh the public of this city with as good lit cards as those of the San Francisco and Iff jf Los Angeles tracks, ft Ml ' An Eastern capitalist who is one of 'j (J the jromotera of the schema will reach ;JI Salt Lake early next week and shape II thing?, up so that work' can begin by Fi I May 1st. f'im' , Home for Fine Horses. 1-7 I1 When the track Is completed this city .J m will no doubt become the wintering " pkjcff for many racing stables. The cll- i f fl' mate here Is tho be?t and all that has y fl kept horsemen away In other years has ' ! I been the absence of suitable quartern. J B n thc cvent that Sa,t Lakc becomes 1 fl'. 'u,e winter hcudrmarters for many of tho horse-owners and their racing J Sl strings, the farmers of the valley would N BJ' no doubt reap quite a harvest from thc J JBJ sale of hay and grain. , cB Tho company will be Incorporated , j Tlth a capital ock of 5100,000. and j UB most of the stock has already been tak- - ert by local business men- |