The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-02
PLAN FOR BIG TRACK
More Of the Plans of the Auto.
mobile Syndicate Made Public
by Waukegan Men.
TO BUILD AN AMPHiTHEATRE

A three mile concrete automobile
speedway with garages and machine
shops, double amphitheater TO per-
NIT the seating of 10000 people, a
yachting course on Lake Michigan,
and the probable completion of the
Chicago to Milwaukee Sheridan road,
all these are details of planssin part
made public in the News Thursday
evening.
The automobile race track is to be
built just north of Winthrop Harbor.
Four hundred and seventy acres are
now said to be under option and sever
al hundred more are sought before
the syndicate that is promoting the
deal will be satisfied.
The plans for the race track call
for three mile oval with a steep
curve. It is claimed that the oval
will be at such pitch that speed of
800 miles an hour may be developed.
If this is the case the track willg COM
pare most favorably with any of
the famous European tracks. The
track will be completely of concrete
and will in some places have height
on its outer edge of fifty feet it is re-
ported.
In connection with the track there
will be system of garages, machine
shops and oil supply tanks.
A double amphitheater is one of the
features of the track arrangements.
1t will be arranged so that one am
phitheater will have view of the
lake, on which yachting course is to
be laid out for water events and
aquatic sports, while the other will
have view of the automobile track
alone.
This means, of course, that the
track is to be laid out on the lake
shore, one side being to the lake.
The whole scheme. which is said to
be that of syndicate of leaders in
the American automobile racing
game, has been under way since the
middle of last October. Plans have
been shown in Waukegan which is
how the scheme became public, but
no names are mentioned as being
those of men backing the scheme.
The American Automobile Association
is said to be back of it by some, while
others say that the Northwestern
road is supporting the venture. It's
cost will run up into the millions.
That much is certain. It is also GER
tain that contractors have been asked
to bid on the work and have sent in
their estimates to Chicago, while a
Waukegan man is the one whose land,
40 acres, is under option.
The subscriptions to the syndi-
Gates stock are stated to be COM
pletely paid in and the location is
said to be decided upon definitely, ex-
cept that more land than the Wau-
kegan man was able to supply is ask
ed by the promoters. A boost in price
is feared if the exact location of the
track is given, so the promoters are
not giving out the exact spot at which
the track will be located.
Plans call for the taking Up of op-
tons and the completion of purchase
by the 1st of February or March and
for the mp1etion of the track and all
its appurtenances some time in the
year 1908.
Without fail promoters say the
building of the track means the COM
pletion of Sheridan road between
Milwaukee and Chicago, which means
the Insertion of strip between Wau-
kegan and the naval training school
at Lake Bluff and the Improvement of
the end of the road from the northern
limits of Waukegan clear north to
Milwaukee.
H. M. Holton, of Milwaukee, spent
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