Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-14
THE Las VEGAS
|. PLEASURE GROUND
Fast Assuming Form and Com.
liness Race Track Practi-
cally Completed
.OPENE THE FOURTH
Fourteen Acres of Woodland I'd
BE Transformed Into Place
OfIdeal Beauty

The people of Las Vegas are going
| TO have III the new grounds and park
or the Las Vegas Fair and Driving
lassociation, one of the most delightful
resorts lii the west. The plans or the
company promoting the Important en-
lterprise call for much more than d
race track and baseball field II is
proposed 70 transform the beautiful
| bit Of woodland and orchard covering
"A acres. recently purchased. into
an ideal park. An artificial lake GOV.
ering more than two acres win be
stocked with boats. d rustic club
house will be built, broad driveways
will lead under the spreading branches
Of the great trees and other attractive
features will be added Las Vegas
will have reason To be proud Of her
recreation grounds when the word
|tinis may be written to the labors OF
the executive committee.
Ii company with Col II. Il. Twitch.
ell, Capt. w. G. Reid, Dr, j. M. Smith,
Superintendent Wallace Or the
street car comrltny, and Architect
Holt, an Optic representative visited
the fair grounds yesterday
| =
The amouni Of work airea done
is surprising The grading of The
race track Is complete After the
first heavy rain. the track VIII be-
Fsmoothed and scraped and rolled
[again, sIt " Fthen. i il believed. eg.
|of the Te6mfdf hardness and copsx
teney, 1T IS proposed 10 have the
FIRST races and regular program of
sports on the grounds Decoration
day, but the grand opening Celeb The
Is scheduled for Foupsf cf Jnly air
a BiySfield.
The groilnAs consist o. parcel Of
land as level assd floor stretching from
2,7s2 feet ions.tudionally and com.
passing 4 breadth almost ns great on
the Hofthern edge, however, the
plaip drops steeDly down into the dell
through whielrsbabbles The Gallinas
The tree. tops visible from tne trolley
car appear Ike slender aaplings but
one arriv3s arsthe slope Ii find them
10 De of large growth with great
spreading branches. Almost the en-.
| tire length Of the level plain within
the fence Ii travsrscd both On the
north and south sides and across both
ends BY q straightaway forty feet
road A more delightfuffplacc for d
sgaptd drive could not ii ifmginad The
work of building tho straightaway
course has adyapeed considerably.
The greatest length will be \ two
thousand feet. The grand stands and
fences are going Up rapidly. The In
ner and outer rall fence 10 the race
track Il also building. In addition to
THE grand stand obtained from the
normal second one 81 greater size Is
| 10 be erected.
TO many the most enticing feature
OF the project undertaken BY the 10
cal company Will be the park. II Is
Impossible 70 tell until one has cross
ed the plain and reached the sylvan
shades. what an alluring piece q
woodland has been more than hall
hidden almost III the GalIinas bed,
Fancy can easily picture the charms
Of this place for 4 picnic and pleasura
resort when broad drlyeways and rus.
tic paths wind through II. when the
CLASSY lake has been stolen tfom the
GaIllnas and fine club Iouse has
been erected las vegSs needs
something IKE that and to The pro.
moters Of the. enterprise the thanks
of nc people win be due,
John Thornhill. the landscape gaFl.
ener has been engaged and Monday
viii aegn his transforming work. The
underbrush9 Will be removed, the dis.
figuring features destroyed and toned
Under. the supervision u Engineers
Holt 4 Holt The building 81 paths and
! roadways AMI an embarrassment 20 hold
the waters Of the lake viii begin al
once.
II Is noteworthy fact that the
work on the driyeways and race track
has been accomplished BY. direct EN-
ployment Of labor under the superyi