The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-11

authorizing the MGQ0r ana Rec0rder OF
Salt Lake City to sign a contract with Ed
naurld Wilkes.
Be 1t resolved by the City ConuciI OF
Salt Lake City, That the right to con
struct, maintain and operate an over :
head electric motor street railway, sin
gle or double track, as the grantee here
matter named may at any time deem
expedient, on and along the following
described streets of said city, viz: Start
ing from the Utah Central Railway
station; thence south along Third West
Street to First South Street; thence
west along FirsS South Street to Fourth
West Street; thence south along Fourth
West Street to Fourth South Street
with branch west on Second South
Street to the Denver & Rio Grande
Western Station); thence east along
Fourth South Street to West
Temple Street; thence north along
West Temple Street to Sec
ond South Street; thence east
along Second South Street to First East
Street, thence south along First East
Street to Fourth South Street; thence
east along Fourth South Street to
Tenth East Street, thence south along
Tenth East Street to Seventh South
Street, thence east to the United States
Military Reservation.
Also, from Third East Street and
Fourth South Street, thence south
along Third East Street to the city
boundary.
Also, from Third East Street and
Ninth South Street, thence east along
Ninth South Street to Seventh East
Street, thence south along Seventh East
Street to the city boundary.
Also, from the Utah Central station
thence north along Third West Street
to Ninth North Street, thence west along
Ninth North Street to Sixth West
Street, thence northwesterly along or
across any streets now owned or which
may be hereafter acquired by said
city, to the Hot Springs, be and the
same is hereby granted to Edmund
Wilkes and his successors and assigns
for the period of ty years from the
date of the following agreement on the
terms and subject to the conditions,
restrictions and limitations contained
in said agreement, to wit:
This agreement made and entered
into this .. Gay of ....... A. D.
1888, by aud between Salt Lake City, a
municipal corporation organized and
existing under the laws OF Utah Terri
tory, party of the first part, hereinafter
designated as 'said city," and Edmund
Wilkes of Salt Lake City, in the County
of Salt Lake and Territory of Utah,
party of the second part witnesseth:
That the said city, for and in consid-
Grafton of the covenants and agree
ments made by the said party of the
second part and contained herein, does
hereby give, grant and extend to the
said Edmund Wilkes and his successors
and assigns. for the term of twenty
years from the date hereof. the right
to construct, own, maintain and
operate an overhead electric mo-
tor railway, single or double
track, as the said party of the
second part may at any time deem ex-
pedient, on and along the following
streets of said city, with the right to
move cars thereon.
Starting from the q tab Central Rail-
way station, thence south along Third
West Street to First South Street;
thence west along First South Street to
Fourth West Street; thencs south along
Fourth West Street to Fourth South
Street with branch west on Second
South street to the Denver & Rio
Grande Western Station(; thence east
along Fourth South Street tow est Tenn
pie Street; thence north along West Tenn
pie Street to Second South Street; thence
east along Second South Street to First
East Street; thence south along First
East Street to Fourth South Street;
thence east along Fourth South Street to
Tenth East Street; thence south along
Tenth Last Street to Seventh South
Street; thence east to the United States
Military Reservation.
Also, from Third East Street and
Fourth South Street, thence south along
Third East Street to the city boundary.
Also, from Third East Street and
Ninth South Street, thence east along
Ninth South Street to Seventh East
Street, thence south along Seventh East
Street to the city boundary.
Also, from the Utah Central station
north along Third West Street to Ninth
North Street, thence west on Ninth
North Street to Sixth West Street,
thence northwesterly along or across
any streets now owned, or which may
be hereafter acquired, by said city, to
the Hot Springs.
Also, all necessary switches and a
double or single track from any one
point along said line to and across the
sidewalk to car house. Switches and
changes in location of track to be
made only by consent and with
the approval of the City Coun-
Gil of said city. Also. the right
to erect, establish, maintain and oper-
ate, for the term aforesaid, on the
streets named, along the said proposed
line of street railway, all poles, posts,
wires and lights that may be necessary
or incident to, and required in the
operation OF said proposed street rail-
way, by means OF the overhead cleo
trio motor power and for the purpose
of maintaining electric lights, and to
connect the same with such electric
station or stations as may be found ex-
pedient to establish; provided that such
poles and posts shall extend twenty-five
feet in height above the surface of the
ground and be not less than eight
inches at the ground and not less than
four inches at the top. no wire to be
less than twenty feet in height from the
ground.
The said Edmund Wilkes, for himself
and his successors and assigns, in con-
sideration of the foregoing grant. hereby
promises and agrees: