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| CAPITAL ASSURED FOR NEW TRACK. New Orleans. La.. March !».— Fred A. Middle ton. attorney for the leffersoa Fair Association, has returned from Hot Spring*, where be had gone to in terview horse-men as tee the prospects at the Jefferson track, which proposes opening Thanksgiving Day for thirty day*. "Our rail meeting is aUBIOd," said Mr. Middle- ton. "provided, of coarse, that tin- present bsterpte-tation of the law is uphedd in tiie suits now filed . ml pending. The Inn s ml a now at Hot Spring n will supply all the capital we need in addition to •he- 186,080 which we have raised to insure the- first me et.llg. "Kaeing at the Fair Grounds next year will be for only thirty-six days. Two of the largest owners at the Springs told me that it would not pay the* to ship their staid* I her.- lor only thirty-six day*. We propose thirty days, which will give dxty six days all told at New Orleans. a! eiut the correct length oi time to insure any profit to | the owners."
