The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-07-31
NOR. MONTANA FAIR,
First Meeting Of the Association
Will Certainly BE a Great
Success.
Superb Location of the Grounds,
and their Equipment of the
Finest.
Handsome Purses Hang Up for
the Speedy Ones--Watcr Album
dant, Buildings New and
Convenient.

Lying between the Sun and Miss
ouri rivers, but short distance above
the confluence Of the former with the
latter stream, and just two miles
northwest from the Park hotel in this
city is large body of land as level
and as smooth as the placid waters of
Broadwater bay.
The most central and level portion
of this beautiful valley has been Sc
lected and purchased by the North
Montana Fair association of Great
Falls and by them converted into the
association grounds and race course
and which when fully completed,
equipped and ready for business will
be second to no association track in
the state or west.
With the same untiring energy
and enterprise and the determination
not to be outdone that has character
lied the Cataract city and her people
from the time of it's infancy to the
present day, the North Montana 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, Aug
ust 20.
FIRST DAY-MONDAY, AUGUST 1G.
Trotting, S4OO,3 100 class.
Running, $500, tivc-eights mile dash,
handicap.
Trotting, $3.50, 2:25 class.
Running, $4O0, one mile dash.
SECOND DAY---TUEsDAY, AUGUST, Is.
Trotting. $500, 9 40 class.
Pacing and trotting, $500, for all hors-
cs bred and owned in Cascade county.
Running, $500 thre- quarter mile dash
for two-ycars-old.
Trotting, $500, $50 class.
Running, S4O0, half mile heats, hantli-
cap.
THIRD DAY. AUGUST, 19.
Trotting, $4OO' all wo-year-olds.
Running, $500, one mile dash, handi-
cap.
Trotting, 81 900 free for all.
Running, Great Falls derby, $50 each,
$500 added, winner of Anaconda suburb
an and West Side derby to carry three
pounds extra to each event, one and one
half mile.
The North Montana Fair associa-
tons track lies Immediately be-
tween the Great Falls and Canada
and the Great Northern railroad
tracks, about one-half mile from the
stock yards 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 load
ing their stock at the grounds.
The associations regulation track
is of light sunny soil, almost iden-
tically the same as that of Miles City,
which under the management of
Messrs. Robert Vaughn, D.H.Church-
ill and Julius Horst, the committee
on buildings and improvements, has
been so admirably graded and ar
ranged that its drainage is perfect,
and even after the hardest rain will in
a few hours be in working order.
The water supply is all that could
be desired, the water being forced
from Sun river by the stationary en-
ginc of the Canada and Great Falls
railroad into a huge tank of the
United States Wind Engine and
Pump company's make. OF a capa-
city of 2o,OOO gallons, and from
whence it is distributed by small
pipes to all portions of the grounds.
The improvements, consisting of the
judges and grand stand, stables, pool
rooms, saloon, restaurant and secre-
tary's office and all substantial build
ings, constructed from the best Mon
tana lumber, which, like her horses,
is noted both far and near for its
staying qualities and power of endur-
ance.
The grand stand is 100 feet long
by thirty wide and will seat l,5OO
people, with a restaurant and secre-
tary's office underneath, and an an
mex on the west side to be used as a
at the east end will be erect
ed 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 more
will be required to put everything
in order. And horsemen from all
sections of the country must rest as
sured that every preparation is being
made for their coming and the best