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Show SALT LAKE TO HAVE A NEW COUNTRY CLUB. If the plans partially formulated at a recent meeting of a number of gentlemen at the - Alta club are perfected, Salt Lake will soon have a new country club independent of any other organization or-ganization and financed sufficiently before improvements im-provements are begun to make it one of the most attractive golf clubs in the country. Those present at the meeting were D. C. Jack-ling, Jack-ling, C. W. Whitley, R. W. Salisbury, R. C. Gem-mell, Gem-mell, Frank Judge, Robert H. Harkness, E. S. Ferry, George Gunn, L. B. McCornick, F. E. Mc-Gurrin, Mc-Gurrin, J. T. Gilmer and T. W. Boyer. For almost a year the idea of organizing a new club has been discussed, those chiefly inter ested in the project claiming that the present location is too. small, with only nine holes, which is half a golf course, and that it can never be enlarged, en-larged, as it is impossible to get more ground except at prohibitive prices. Also they maintain that the present golf course is too crowded on Saturdays and Sundays, and that in using the course, the route they are obliged to take is' in ft too close 'proximity to fish houses, cow sheds, pig pens, stables and a various assortment of barns and outhouses. It is proposed that the organizers subscribe enough money to buy a large acreage near the mountains just south of the mouth of Emigration canyon, and have sufficient remaining to build a club house, put in tennis courts and make all other . necessary improvements so that in from one to two years' time everything will be in readiness. The intention, it is said, is to make it rank with similar clubs elsewhere, with very extensive grounds, a fine club house, and afford- . ing sufficient room for a large golf course, polo, etc. It is understood that those mainly interested in the project have already secured, options on the greater part of the ground, which is on the east bench, directly east of Douglas Park, the west boundary being at a point which would be about Twenty-fifth East. The ground is on an eminence above all other occupied ground near the mountains, and it is claimed that the tract is so large that no buildings can ever come within with-in hearing or smelling distance. The view from the proposed sito extends for forty miles south and west and twenty miles northwest, including the city, the lake, the Oquirrh range and in fact the whole valley; while a good stream of pure water flows from a mountain spring situated on the extreme east of the property. The organizers say that there is no other, tract within twenty miles of the city (Continued on Pago 8.) A NEW COUNTRY CLUB. 17 (Continued from Page 4.) of sufficient size for a country club where. the soil is so perfect for a golf course, and as another advantage they point out that there is already a fine automobile road from the city, and that the proposed plans for a street car extension will be completed before it could be put into general use as a Country club. Through the arrangement which is proposed by those who are organizing the club, they will subscribe all necessary money and will own the land and the improvements, though social members mem-bers of the club will be admitted upon the pay- -ment of a membership fee and yearly dues. Tho social members, according to the present understanding, under-standing, will have all of the .club privileges of the charter members, though those who do not take part in the original subscription will own nothing but their memberships. It is probable that with the return to the city within the next few weeks of several who attended at-tended the first meeting, that the plans will be rapidly perfected and the money immediately paid in order to close the deal and begin the improvements, im-provements, which will take some time to complete. com-plete. The ground that has been decided upon is hundreds of feet above the city and even higher tban Ford Douglas, though experts declare that the ground is ideal for golfing and for every purpose pur-pose of a real country club, with no chance of the surrounding tracts ever being anything but open country. The development of the project will be awaited await-ed with keen interest both in business and so- -ciety circles, for it is a serious, question as to whether Salt Lake is capable of supporting two country clubs, and in the end, the movement will probably mean the survival of the quickest. |