Arizona republican., 1905-07-15


 offered to the association.
 The southwest corner of the Wasson | tract, which contains eighty acres, is one of the corners at the place known ! locally as Six Points. Six Points is on | Grand avenue, less than a mile and a i half beyond Five Points. The Was | son tract faces west on the new Black | Canyon road and south on the Me l DoweH road. There is therefore | frontage of three-fourths of mile on | the two roads. giving opportunity for | all the gates that may be desired. 1 There are three roads available be- tween the fair grounds and the city ! namely, the Grand Avenue, the Me Dowell running east and connecting with Seventh avenue and Central av- enue. and the new Black Canyon road running directly south from the fair grounds to the Yuma road.
 The street railway company will probably build north from Washing ton street to the fair grounds via the new Black Canyon road, though some effort is being made to get the com pany to extend the line out Grand av- enue But the principal point is that the track will be built to the grounds one way or the other and 9. good car service has been assured. The com pany has agreed with the board of di- rectCrs to run cars every three min utes during fair week or any other en- tertainment that will call out a crowd and on every day in the year will op- crate on a schedule of at least on~ car every thirty minutes.
 Equally satisfactory arrangements have been made with the steam rail- roads. The $. F.. p. & P. line now parallels the new Black Canyon road north from Washington street to Six Points, thence running northwest on , Grand avenue. The land is located conveniently for the building of any switch or sidetrack that may be re- quired, so that exhibitors, horsemen or others may unload thei- freight at the Playground entrance. or perhaps in side of it. This is also a matter of 9 great economy in the handling of ma teriaI for the buildings on the grounds and for all heavy freight. It practi- cally eliminates the transfer expense 6 necessary in most construction opera tiOns. In this arrangement there has been taken into account the freight that will come over the southern lines f and it has been agreeably arranged that the freight arriving via the M. 6, .. P may be transferred to the S. F., P-
 & ?. tracks and delivered at trifiing . expense so the situation is almost as good as though both railroads ran by
 the grounds.
 Tn addition to this the railroads have made other very liberal conces- . sions that amount almost to donations 1 to the enterprise and in the long run T perhaps even more. They have agreed u to make only a nominal charge for hauling the lumber and other material
 that will be shipped in in large quanu- ties for construction purposes and this
 will prove a great saving on the initial = cost More than that they will make = the most liberal rates possible for the IL transportation of exhibits.
 - The lumber dealers for their part A have made prices that amount practi- = cally to a donation of all their profits . to the enterprise and the saw mills al - Flagstaff and Williams have subscrib-
 ed liberally to the stock of the asso-
 citation. Everything so far has pro-
 ceeded with the greatest satisfaction
 and if the fair enterprise is not # success it will be by reason of some IS thing that has not yet happened ana e that cannot even be conjectured l. There has been mutual cO-operatior IS both among the officers and stOcl0hold
 CTS of the association and between thi
 corporation and everybody it has tried
 to do business with. The directors art
 pleased with the present promising y, prospects and naturally grateful fo ;" the interest taken in the project by al n and appreciative of all the concession Is made in behalf of it.
 The next thing is the work of con
 structfon and this has by no mean
 been neglected. Contracts have beer
 let for the construction of three barn to each over a hundred feet long am
 about forty feet wide. The names O
 the contractors have not been mad
 a 1A have not been signed yet, but will b 10 at once. The plans for the amphithe " ater are about finished. It will sea ,o over 2,000 people and beside there wi .d be some thirty private boxes. each O e which will seat six or eight persons of The plans for the exhibition building
 to be constructed by the territoria
 commission are nearly all drawn an
 the contracts will be let in a few day:
 Work on the building of the race trac r will commence within the next tw ', weeks probably and in this cOnnectio .s there is another thing deserving C t mention. There has been comment b , some to the effect that there wer , spots in the Wasson tract not fitte
 for the best kind of a race track owin
 to the peculiarities of the soil How
 ever this may be- If it shall prove tha n it is desirable to haul in any dirt C U gravel or other material to correct an
 such feature that may show itself, tn
 railroads have agreed to do the haul ing for the very minimum of eXpens Ol The track grounds. buildings an
 all it is estimated can be complete
 and put in good shape for tile holdin
 of a fair by October Is, but a iltt
 more time may be taken for the reaso UT that in the summer time mechanic at are scarce and it is desired to utiliz e. home labor as much as possible eve he it it takes a. little longer. But 'thel ;. is no doubt but that the grounds wi
 be ready in time as the fair will n. oy be held until the first week in Ds ct cember.
 n- J. c. Adams, who is president e. the association and one of the terr !,