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PROPOSES WINTER RACING AT MOBILE. Representative of Montana Syndicate Offers to Build Track if Certain Conditions Arc Met. Mobile, Ala., December 14. George S. Klotz, of Anaconda, Mont., who sets forth that he represents a Montana syndicate of racing men, has written Secretary J. A. Joullian of the Gulf Coast Tropical Fair Association that the interests he represents are Hilling to build a racetrack, grandstand, paddock and stalls for 000 horses and provhh other required accessories for an annual winter race meeting of 100 days in this city if certain conditions can be met. The proposition as submitted by Mr. Klotz is as follows: "The proposition I am authorized to make is as follows: If lease of grounds with mile track can be obtained, we will make all necessary improvements, build new fences, erect grandstand large enough to seat not less than 2,500 persons, separate buildings for olllces, paddock, and not less than 000 stalls, also a stand for segregation of races. What we intend to do is to put up a tirst-class plant, that will be perfect in every detail and a credit to the city. Should your assoeiation decide to let us have lease, we will make improvements as enumerated above, the lease. If possible, to extend for the time mentioned, with privilege of renewal, at a cost, say, of $",000 per year, the same to apply toward the buildings: and should the association conduct its meetings for live consecutive years, for a period of at least 100 days in eacli year, the buildings to become the property, at the expiration of that time, of the Gulf Coast Tropical Fair Association. "On the other hand, should adverse legislation curtail our operations, then the Gulf Coast Tropical Fair Association agrees to pay to our association the difference between the price of the lease for the time we operate and the cost of the improvements, if arrangements can bo made early we will begin building operations, so as to lc ready to place Mobile on the racing map, and open on Thanksgiving Dav. 1012. "We also agree to lot the Gulf Coast Tropical Fair Association have use of our track and buildings for fair and racing purposes, free of cost, same to be run independently of our own race meetings. The benefits that the city of Mobile will derive from a winter race meeting are greater than business people have any idea of. No doubt you have noticed how the business people of New Orleans have been clamoring for a return of the winter meeting there." Secretary Joullian will bring the matter before the Gulf Coast Tropical Fair Association at an early date and intimates that it may be possible to arrive at some agreement on the proposition.
