Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-06-27 | Page 37 | Minneapolis Will Soon Have Big Auto Course

MINNEAPOliS Will SOON HAVE BIG AUTO MO COURSE IE President F F. IL Wheeler of the Twin City Speedway Is confident that by August Aug 16 15 all of the work of or constructing constructing con con- the two-mile two oval oal will wm be bo completed and arid that the track tr-aek will be he rend ready for a race which it Is Iii hoped will he be staged toward tho end of Sep Sep- Work York was begun two weeks ago and night gangs will soon Hoon be started The total investment will approximate approximate mate mato mode made e up lip as follows Land acres 1 concrete track grading of land kind for tor track and stands stand covered cred steel grandstands ot seat beat spectators spectators spec spec- four tour sixty foot tunnels tunnels tun tun- nels under track fence 10 10 O JO garages g and other buildings 40 Tho The track is to be he a Zt cement oval o eighty feet wide at all points and with foot toot straightaways on each ach side Ride The b banking n ing on n tho the curves Is for a speed of ot miles per hour this banking being as 08 a a. p curve rather than a a. straight Incline On either cither side aide of at the track is a a. foot toot cement wall wan extending all aU of at the way around are set twenty feet back from the th track on tho the stretches and forty feet teet ba back k on tho the curves Every precaution has hns been taken to safeguard tho the spectators and contes contes- tants