Show FAI FAIRMONT PARK TO BE CONVERTED INTO BEAUTIFUL I RECREATION SPOT v I 4 I 4 4 4 is S 4 4 I y 4 1 a i if w 1 1 I rAZ rAZI I i b k 4 4 C f 4 c d J JI 4 I tt I ti A t ct 4 4 I A Ac l c Y S t 1 t I 4 t c Scenes es at Fairmont park In Sugarhouse where re landscape experts are busy in to in a be n program Above an archway of or trees given the park by nature Below first of at a a. number of ot small lakes being converted d from ponds b by F r E E ER R A K workers FERA Funds Finance Vf Work on n Future Playground i for br Salt Sal LakerS Ia I By ART WINTON With the completion of ot two tennis courts and the first of or a series of lakes construction work at Fa Fairmont park declared by landscape e engi engl engineers gl as destined t to be one of ot Americas America's Americas America's Amer ica's leas most beautiful small parks i is welt well under wa way The new Fairmont t park work on which has been proceeding unheralded ed and unsung under the auspices of the city db parks department and ani F Ba E B ER ER R a A posses possesses s landscaping advantages advantages unknown to other Salt Lake City parks It is 15 these natural attributes attributes attributes that under skillful engineering I hands will make Fairmont nt park a public r resort sort comparable with the toe most famous beauty spots of the country About 80 men from the ranks of f the unemployed are busy every day converting laden debris waste l lands s scum covered um i ponds and muddy streams of the acre 41 cit owned city owned tract into an orderly and cleared area preliminary to the actual l beautifying processes Work to Be Continued Once cleared and made rc ready dy work will wm go on ott in m swift fashion until until un un- til the finished product of or w woods lakes rock-bordered rock streams s ln sunken en enand and rock gardens terraces and attributes attributes at at- tributes for tor playing 14 games is rend ready for tor public use Once completed completed It it ma may not be for five or f six years years Fairmont park located lo 10 adjacent the Sugarhouse business business busi busi- ness district between the Denver Rio Grande Western railroad and Ninth South t. t with Forest Dale golf goIt links to the south will provide Salt Lakers with the most modern and efficient park facilities available Its appurtenances for lor sports will be unexcelled by an any park of its size in inthe inthe in inthe the cou country The ame same may be said laid of oC its itc facilities for tor quiet and passive recreation ion In the northwest corner at the McClelland McClelland Mc Me- Clelland Celland avenue entrance will be five lawn tennis temm courts Along Ninth East street a turf turl turf covered covered baseball the dirt diamond diamond diamond replacing now in iti use use and and soft ball diamonds wil wU be located A swimming pool isto isto is isto to be built south of the baseball diamonds One lake will be devoted to casting g another Ito to adult fishing and a third to fishing by youngsters Games Game to Be De Provided Other sports and games for which facilities will be provided in ample measure include horseshoes and quoit quOi lawn bowling archery volley vol ley icy ball marbles and croquet All AU courts for th these se games will be of the i mo most t modern rn construction with provi provIsion provision pro pro- I vi vision lon made made for game playing b. b by adults id children and even infants An An outstanding feature of or Fairmont park facilities s will be the setting aside of oC certain localities within the park for specified purposes There will be for lor example a quiet et c x where none none may my go except those hoJ f t rW Il un 4 r. r disturbed The city will city will provide current current current cur cur- rent magazines and other reading material for corner patrons Spots will be set aside for mothers with their children and none may intrude The northeast corner is to be known as the Boy Scout corner I It will be available for fors for's scout out organizations for lor camping with a small lake and streams at hand hand hand-a a veritable wider wilderness wil wil- der eSs spot pot within the city limits for teaching youngsters wood lore and arid nature studies Utilize Old lI Hatchery t hery An old fish hatchery hatcher within the park n near r the southern border offers otters decided advantages for lor conversion into sunken gard gardens ns with numerous cascades and small waterfalls Streams will be rock bordered with innumerable ble beauty spots along their borders Natural avenues of big trees will be utilized and much of ot the park area converted into beautiful lawns Fairmont park is so situated anc and endowed b by nature as to make it possible pos pos- sible for the park department to convert convert eon eon- con con- vert it into one of the country country's s finest finest fin fin- est beauty spots said Park Commissioner Com Corn missioner P. P H H. Goggin It SIt will take several years rears o to complete our pl plans plains ns but in the end Fairmont park wil offer oller unsurpassed park facilities Federal aid through the F FER E B R Ais A A- Ais Ais is making Fairmont park possible without ci city expenditures beyond a small sum turn necessary for equipment Use of rock and other material from other cit owned city O lands is keeping construction cost to a minimum |