Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1909 — SILVER BRICK IN SPEEDWAY [ARTICLE]

SILVER BRICK IN SPEEDWAY

Greatest Automobile Track In World Being Built at Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 7.—When a silver brick, which will be gold plated, is laid this week the gigantic under taking of paving the Indianapolis motor speedway with vitrified bricks shall have been completed and Indianapolis can boast of having the greatest automobile track in the world. Besides laying the brick, 3,500,000 of them, in concrete, they have been

covered with concrete, which gives the track a very smooth surface. The cost of the speedway to date is S7OO • 000.