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Show OROOi BROKEN FOR KEW AUTDSPEEDWAY Work to Be Rushed on Road Fr.om Salt Lake to Saltair. Ground was broken yesterday for the automobile speedway which Is to be built between this city and the Beach City townsite on the shore or Great Salt lake. The .Saltalr Improvement company, com-pany, which in llnanciiiHr the proposition, signed a contract with a local construction construc-tion company for tho building of the speedway several days ago. and the contractors con-tractors put twelve teams and scrapero to work yesterday on the approach of the roadway to Beach City. Work will be begun at this md In a few days, nnd both crews will work toward each other as rapidly as possible. 1 Among the piobloms Involved In the construction of the speedway aro the several lllls that will have to be made whery a number of small lakos nnd marshes Intersect the course. It has been decided to put In a bedding of rock, tilled In with gravel and sand, where these water-tilled gaps occur, and It Is probable prob-able that nn extra force of nion will bo assigned to this work. D. C. Mclntyro. president of thw Improvement Im-provement company, said yesterday that the project had been fully llnanced and that the speedway would bo ruslmd to completion, A number of prominent men witnessed tho breaking of tho ground near Saltair yesterday. |