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BRIGHT RACING PROSPECTS IN MONTANA. A. D. Galbraith, secretary of the Montana Fair and Racing Circuit, is in Denver in the Interest of the circuit, which is to open with a mixed run-niug and trotting meeting at Butte August -1. This meeting will end September 7 and will be followed by meetings of one week each at Liviugston, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena and Missoula. There will be three or four running races at each point each day, for which the purses will average 50. The Butte Fair and Racing Association has purchased the racing track property belonging to the Marcus Daly estate. This is a very well equipped plant with accommodations for G33 head of horses. The Butte promoters intend to rejuvenate racing throughout Montana, and next season they are anxious to launch a circuit comprising Denver, Salt Lake. Boise, Spokane, Seattle and possibly Los Angeles, or some other favorable shipping point in California. The mining troubles are at an end In Montana, and racing is expected to nourish there as never ltefore since the palmy days. There are already three poolrooms in full operation in Butte, posting prices on the races at all the tracks of the country. So prosperous is the condition of the town that the Butte management; according to Secretary Galbraith, has added four days to the length of the meeting originally determined upon.
