Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-16
HORSEMEN WILL
GO TO THE MESA
A New Organization to Give
AmnsementS on Mesa Pro-
muleated Yesterday.
ELDER RANCH IS PURCHASED

Albuquerque Is soon to nav one OF
the finest driving parks in the terri
tory if the plans of the Mesa Driving
club. which was organized late yes
terday afternoon with sixteen mem
bers. do not m~lscarry.
Most of the members of the new
club are former members of the Al
buquerque Spring Driving association,
which, with the forming OF the new
organization. goes ou of existence. II
is the object of the new club to secure
twenty-five members all told, each of
whom wilt subscribe 500 toward de-
fraying the first expenses of the new
club.
Seventeen hundred dollars will be
expended at once in purchasing the
property Known as the Elder ranch,
some four miles southeast of the city
on the mesa, which will be made into
a fine driving club. The house on this
property. a seven-room affair. will be
remodeled into an %up-to-date club
house, and the stables will also he
greatly enlarged to accommodate a
large string of horses. A mile track,
with a half-mile track inside of this,
will be constructed Immediately, and
a speedway extending from the Tier
as canyon road TO the club house. a
distance of one and one-half miles
will also be built. and a base ball dia-
mond will be laid out upon the
grounds.
The Elder ranch is an ideal spot for
such purposes. Only four miles from
the heart of the city. it is easily ac-
,cessible to the residents, and besides,
the hard. dry soil of the mesa lends it.
self readily to the successful making
of a fine race track. While it is not
the intention of the club to erect a
modern race track, and while they do
rot expect to carry on the game as a
monetary proposition, they will make il
into one of the finest little driving
parks in this part of the country, and
many a brush between the horses of
tn. local members will take place
thereon, as this is the main idea Of its
members in establishing the park.
The following members of the or
ganizatiOn which at present constitutes
its membership, met yesterday after
moo at the Sturges hotel and dis
cussed the above plans: Messrs. Will
liam Trimble, Captain r. H. Greenleaf,
Herman Bleuher, Jake Levy, Otto
Berger, Simon Schloss, DR.. J. f.
Pearce. Frank E.. Sturges, Joe Barnett.
Colonel w. II. Greer, f. C. Newcomer,
Jacob Korber, A. V. Tegner, Joe Sher-
idan, George X. Neher, and J. A.
Weinmann.
The stables on the property will be
enlarged to accommodate a large num-
Der of horses, and at some future
date, although the membership as yet
have decided nothing definite, an effort
will be made to get horsemen winter
ing in the southwestern country to To-
cate here, as this climate is consider
ed better than that of Los Angeles
even. The spring race meet will be
he'd at this track also and in the flu
ture albuquerque may become on OF
the principal racing points between
Kansas City and Los Angeles, and may
eventually supersede the latter city as
a wintering place for the many strings
of race horses that are now wintered
there.
It is understood that Col. w. II.
Greer, president of the Albuquerque
Traction company, just before his de-
parture for the east, announced to
several of the gentlemen mentioned
above that it vas the intention Of the
Traction company to extend the troll
icy line TO the mesa and thence out to
the new club house as soOn as pos
Sible.