The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-23


deringi it almost inaccessible. Then
the street itself is very narrow, only
four rods wide, from which two
sidewalks should be deducted and
also the space occupied by the large
Twent ieth Ward ditch, about twenty
feet wide, thus leaving barely room
enough for teams to pass each other.
What would be the condition of the
street If in addition to this a broad
guage track were laid and the space
occupied still further increased by
throwing up grade, which would
be necessary in consequence of the
slope of the ground? A team can
scarcely make tdrn on the road as
it is, and If the track were laid, it
would be impossible to get a team
out of the way in time to avoid the
danger of an approaching or pass
ing train. This street, again, is the
most popular on the whole bench,
as the water ditch runs along it,
and all those who Wei e obliged from
want Of means to settle on the dry
bench got down as near as possible
to the water. On this street also
are located some three or four stores,
as supply centres fer the whole
bench regOin above. Thus, we
see that of all the streets in that
part of town, this is the one least of
all on which a railroad should be
built.
The bench part of town and
especially the Twentieth and
Eighteenth Wards, have been reS
garded as the retired parts of the |
city, where all those who could |
afford it, would in the course of |
time choose for themselves homes,
so that they might be, during the
intervals between business bours.
removed from the noise and hustle
of machine shops, engines, factories,
etc. Those who have lived there
for any length of time, could not be
induced. we venture to say, on any
conditions to remove to the
lover and more noisy parts
Of town. That retirement which is
necessary to make a
nome such in reality, is what the
people up on the bench do not want
aiken away from them.
Among some of the benefits which
he public are supposed to be about
o derive from the new road, are
heaper coal and building stone, but
low or why we have not yet heard.
The company certainly expect to
make some money from this invest !
nent. Something then will be
harged for hauling the coal W to
he bench, after which it must be /,
oaded linto wagons and hauled
hence to where it is wanted, and ]
his will cost something as well. '
10 where the saying will come in by
.aving a coal depot up on the bench
) hard for us to figure out, and
specially so when we consider that
oal is no cheaper for those who
i've near the depot than for those in
he more remote parts of the city.
cheaper rock seems even more i'm
as in the first place it must
70 hauled to the cars and there
oaded, then run down to che depot
r some switch on the bench, and S
here loaded on the wagons again
nd hauled to where it is wanted
he saving is no more evident than
q the other case. And if the road ]
hould not pay then the price Of I
Ock will be raised until it does, as
he rock company is identical I
nth the railroad company.
We look for higher prices rather
han lower. Shipping rock is not 8
cry probable, as we understand,
he very finest quality of build
ng stone, both white and
ed sand stone, exists in large quan.
tiles and easily accessible, in the I
'icinity of Parley's Park. Now it
be Utah Eastern Railway had been !
'uilt to this city, we could have
cached these quarries easily, as
veil as the coal mines, but this
ream, like many others, has vans
shed Into thin air. Our mountains {
re full of rock and but very little,
ve anticipate, will be shipped outs
ide Of Salt Lake, unless the mon
poly is strong enough to force it
Ipon people to the exclusion of
ock that may be nearer at hand, !
'ut which the railroads viii not |
!aul at a reasonable figure.
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