The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-23
$50 ACRES IN NEW SUBDIVISION
Balm Estate to Put Large Tract Of
Property on the Market With the
Opening of the Spring Plat to be
a Model for City.

NC uiSlOT1c BAN race LIdch which
has been the center for racing sport
IN kenosha and the surrounding terri
tory for the past thirty years is doom
ed and the advance in the city has
made it necessary for the executors
OF the Balm estate to give up their
interest in the racing game and the
track will never be opened for the
ponies again. When the season for
horse racing opens again the track
Will be a part of new subdivision
and one of the largest ever offered to
home seekers in the city. An army
OF surveyors are at work plating the
property and fifty-nine acres of it
will be placed on the market in the
early spring. S. G. Newman, manager
OF the Balm estate is in charge of the
work OF subdividing the large tract
and he plans to make it one OF the fin.
est home additions ever offered in Ke
nosha. 1t will be laid out with wide
streets and all of the streets will cor
respond to the streets of the city to
the south and east. The plat is to be
as near perfect as it is possible to make
it and thousands of dollars viii be ex-
pended in getting the subdivision in
builders. With an electric railway
running along the south side of the
subdivision and with large lots and
wide streets and an immediate posi-
bility fer sewers and water the subdi-
vision promises to be decidedly popu-
lar one.
At the present time fifteen city
blocks will be laid out and there is q
great amount of land which may be
added to the subdivision in the future.
It is possible that the Kenosha Electric
Railway Company will build to Nle
north end Of the subdivision some time
next year. The lots are to be ready
for sale early in the spring and it is
expected that scores of homes will go
up in the new subdivision next year.
Manager Newman has arranged to
reserve large tract of land at the
west end of the subdivision to be used
for factory sites. This will include
the land directly north of the land
owned by the Kenosha Lumber Com
pany and it will extend north for a
half mile or even farther. 1t will
be possible to provide sites for the
largest plants on this tract of land and
it is probable that some concessions
will be made in the price of the land
to secure the location of factories.
The closing UP Of the race track
which was one of the best if not the
best mile track in this section Of the
country comes as hard blow to the
horsemen and they are left practically
without q place for the racing game.
The members Of the Kenosha Gentle
men s Driving Club have made no plans
Tor the future and the only track that
will be open to them will be the half
mile track at the Uhlein farm in the
town Of Pleasant Prairie This track
is in fairly good condition but is so
far from the city that it is not thought
that it would be of any great value
for giving track events. 1t is possible
that the members of the club will ar
range to lay out a new track in the
near future but as yet the plans for
such q track have not been matured.
An excellent half mile track has been
built on the farm of the late Charles
W. Allen to be used for training pur-
poses and it is possible that the Keno
sha horsemen will be able to secure
this track for training purposes.