The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-10
GROUNDS
TRACK IS READY
New HaIf-Mile Course Said to
Be Best and Fastest in
the World.
NEW STEEL GRAND STAND
is NEARING COMPLETION
Grounds Improved Along Gen
eral Plan to Make the Park
Equal to Any.

Tho new race track at the state fair
grounds will be completed and turned
over to the directors OF the Utah state
Fair association next Saturday. The new
track is pronounced by experts TO ne
the finest half-mile track in the world
IN building the new track the direct
ors have endeavored To have II go con-
structed that the horses would always be
plainly Visible from the stand. The race
course is elevated and the turns are all
web banked, the grade being one inch to
the foot
The old race track has been abandoned
and the new course is 4J0 feet northeast
OF the old course. the back stretch being
at the extreme north end Of the fair
grounds i new steel grandstand Is be
ing constructed. IT is modelled AFTER thc
Lagoon stand and Is very Ike the one
at the Farmington track save that IL Is
constructed OF steel.
New Grandstand.
The old grandstand has been torn down
and the club house will be moved to the
new tracks. The ground formerly oc-
cupled b. the race track and the grand
stand Will he parked and used as a pub,
lie promenade. This large open space VIII
DO away with the congestion formerly oc-
cas'oned by people going IN and coming ng
the east side there will be driveway
for vehicles and an enclosure Tor auto
mobiles. so that there Will be, no neces-
sity for the vehicles going through the
grounds To get In or out and danger TO
pedestrians from these vehicles VIII be
eliminated.
some of the old stables used for the
fast horses arc being torn down and
others are TO be used as exhibition sta
5les. New stables near the new track
are being constructed for the speed de-
The new fish and game building near
the main entrance Is nearing completion
1t will prove an added attraction at the
annual state fair.
General Plan of Improvement.
The improvements al the fair grounds
this year are part of general plan
of Improvement which will make the fair
grounds among the finest In the coun-
try. In the immediate future two large
Later on an administration building and
buildings for the various de partments Will
be erected. The buildings will all be
permanent They will form n semi-circle
about n pretty park and promenade lend
Ing TO the race course The directors
plan TO make a public park of the river
front property of the association and
to turn 1t over to the city for a cNldren's
playground swimming pool In the
river and all sorts OF Fairgrounds ar
paratus for the children are Included In
The fair this year will far surpass any
tions will be superior TO those OF any
other fair and the exhibits will be on
q much larger scale than ever before
In addition to the exhibits of manufac-
lures and Industries by business firms
there Will be exhibits from nearly every
county In the state The speed pro-
gramme will be we'll worth while. The
new race track will be inaugurated with
a daily programme OF fast harness and
running events. From the purses Of
fercd and the horses available for entry
Il is likely that many state records for
half-mile track will be broken during
the meeting at the fair.