The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-11
NORTH MONTANA FAIR.
First Meeting Of the Association Will
Certainly Be a Great
Success.
Superb Location OF the Grounds.
and Their Equipment of tho
Finest.
Handsome Purses Hung Up for the Speedy
Ones-Water Abundant, Buildings
New and Convenient.

GREAT FALLs July TO- Special. Lying
between the Sun and Missouri rivers, but
short distance above tho confluence of the
former with tho latter stream, and Just two
miles northwest from the Park hotel in this
city is a large body of land as level and as
smooth az the placid waters of Broadwater
bay.
Tho most central and level portion of
this beautiful valley has been selected and
purchased by tho North Montana Fair asso-
citation of Great Falls and by them con-
verted INTO the association grounds and
race course and which when fully com
pleted, equipped and ready for business
will be second to no association track in the
state or west.
With the same untiring energy md enter
prise and the determination not to be out
done that has characterized the Cataract
city and her people from the time OF its in
fancy to the present day, the North Mon
tann Fair association have planned pushed
to the front and perfected the following
most excellent programme for the three
days. racing of its first annual meeting.
commencing Monday, the 18th, and ending
Wednesday, August 90
FIRST DAY-MoNDAY, AUGUST 10.
Trotiing S4)O. 300 c,ass.
| Runnins, $500. five -eighths mile dash, handi-
cap.
i'rotting, $3.50, 2;25 claps.
| Eunning, St00 one mile dash.
| SECOND DAY~-TUEsDAY, AUGUST Is.
| Trottng. $500, $40 class.
Pacing and trotting. $500, for all horses bred
and owned in Cascade county.
| I'nnning. $500 hree-quarte milo dash for two
year ods.
lrotting $500, 23O class.
hpnnihg, sdoo. half-mile heats, handicap.
| THIRD DAY-AuGusT i9.
| Trotting. S40l, all txo-year-olds.
hunning, $500. one IN 10 dash, handicap.
| Trotting, $1,000 free for all.
| Eunaing, Great Falls derby, $50 each, $500
| addeu, winner of Anaconda suburban and West
Size derbyto carry three pounds extra for each
event, one and one-half miles.
I The North Montana Fair association's s
track lies Immediately between the Great
Falls & Canada and the Great Northern
railroad tracks, about one-half mile
from the stockyards of the former
and one hundred yards from the track of
the other, thus Offering horsemen from the
north, as we'll as from other points of the
compass every advantage and convenience
in unloading and loading their stock at the
grounds.
The associations regulation track is of a
light sunny soil, almost identically the
same as that of Miles City, which unde,
the management OF Messrs. Robert
| Vaughan, ID. II. Churchill and Julius
Horst, the committee on buildings and i'm
| provements, has been so admirably graded
and arranged that its drainage is perfect
and even after the hardest rain will in q
few hours be in working order.
The water supply is all that could be de-
| sired tho uatar boipu fror, Snp
river bv the stationary engine of the Can
ada d Great Falls railroad into huge tank
of the United States Wind Engine g.
Pump company's make. of q capacity OF
$4,000 gallons, and from whence it is diss
tributed by small pipes through all por-
tions of the grounds. Tho improvements,
consisting of the judges and grand stand
stables, pool room. saloon. restaurant and
secretnry's office, are all substantial build
ings, constructed of the very best Montana
lumber, which. like her horses, is noted
both far and near for its staying qualities
and powers of endurance.
The grand stand is 100 feet long by thirty
wide and will seat 1900 people, with res
taurant and secretary's office underneath
and an annex on the west side to be used as
u kitchen. At the east end will be erected
u pool room and saloon building seventy
| five by thirty feet. The stables consist of
one hundred box stalls twelve by sixteen
feet. Up to the present time fully $4,000
has been expended and fully $4,000 moro
will be required to put everything in perfect
order. And horsemen from all sections of
the country may rest assured that every
preparation is being made for their coming
and the best possible entertainment 70 r
| their stock.