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ENTERPRISE AT ANACONDA FINE SPIRIT AND MUCH ENERGY SHOWN IN REPLACING BURNED STABLES. Temporary Structures in Readiness for Tomorrows Opening and Permanent Restoration of Plant Will Follow for Next Years Racing-. Anaconda, Mont., August 24. A comodious grandstand with a seating capacity of 2,500, although hastily erected, will provide ample accommodation for tomorrows opening of the Anaconda Jockey Clubs annual meeting, and as rapidly as conditions will permit, it will be enlarged to the capacity of the one destroyed. There are fully 450 horses on the ground, representing a majority of the prominent stables which raced at Butte, and racing of an interesting character may be expected. The new betting ring and paddock are iu close proximity, the ring having-ample accommodation for thirty books. Ten of the leading layers who operated at Butte have announced their intention of cutting in for the opening and. witli the races well tilled, good contention may be looked for. Nearly all the admirers of racing who have been following the inter-, mountain circuit are here, and the hotel and rooming houses of the place arc taxed to the limit to accommodate the many visitors. The directors of the Deer Lodge County Fair Association, which owns the Anaconda track, have been displaying splendid spirit and energy In the replacing of the burned buildings. At daybreak the morning after the Hire they had a big force of men at work clearing away the debris and by nightfall the same daj- the ground had been cleared and everything was in readiness for the erection of the temporary grandstand, paddock, judges stand, timers stand and betting ring. Monday morning 100 men began the work of constructing the temporary structures and when the meeting opens tomorrow patrons of the sport will find the accommodations adequate, if not elaborate. The new stand will have as great a seating capacity as the old one. It will be 300 feet in length with six rows of scats and covered to protect the spectators from the elements. In plan it will consist of two sections each 150 feet m length, and will have a letting ring In the center sixty feet wide by 100 feet in depth. The now paddock is. at the west end of the now stand. The fences .have been permanently repaired and In front of the grandstand an iron fence has been erected similar, to that at Butte. The building formerly used for the womens exhibits will .be devoted to the agricultural exhibits in connection witli the fair during the closing days of the race meeting this year, and details ns to other displays will be arranged as soon as possible. The directors of the Deer Lodge County Fair Association intend to permanently rebuild the grandstand and the. other buildings destroyed by fire during tho coming, year. They hope to erect a steel and concrete fireproof grandstand with a greater seating capacity than the old one. which was one of the" best in. the .northwest and cost originally 5,000 to build. It was erected by Marcus Daly and was complete in every convenience for the comfort of tho public, but it is believed that a structure can be built to replace it along new architectural lines that will answer every purpose at a cost of not to exceed 5,000. There was an insurance of 2,500 on the building destroyed. No clew has developed as to the origin of the fire other than to increase the opinion that It was incendiary. The stables all escaped destruction and tho business men of the city have given hearty endorsement to the decision of the directors to rebuild the destroyed buildings.
