The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-15
THE ELECTRIC LINES.
What the Street Car Company
Proposes to Do
IF THE CITY WILL ONLY ALLOW 1T
A Magnificent System Under Contemplation
Sleeper Between Salt Lake and Milford
Sidney billions Visit.

| Electric cars will be running along South
Temple street from the Utah Central depot
to the eastern portion of the city within a
! few days. The officials of the street car
company say that if the additional fran
chise is granted by the city council as
asked for at the last council meeting, the
company will continue to push the extern
sion of their lines so as to ramify every
available portion of the city. The electric
| line will be extended to nearly double its
present amount of track and many new mule
lines will be built. 1t is the intention of
the company to entirely remodel the system
of trackage. A double electric line will be
built along Main street from the vicinity of
McCornick's residence on the north to the
limits of the city on the south.
THROUGH ELECTRIC LINES
will be built from the Rio Graude Western
depot on Third South to the east bench;
similar lines will also run from the Utah &
! Nevada along Second street, and from the
! Utah Central on South Temple. Another
electric line will also be built to the Warm
Springs and one to Liberty Park. All of
these lines will be run from one end of the
street to the other, in order to avoid the in
convenience experienced in making turns
| with the electric cars. The Main street
tracks will be the trunk line and all other
lines crossing it will be feeders. Parties
| living in the southern portion of the city
will take the Main Street line as far as the
street they may wish to go east or west on,
when transfer check will be given and
the passenger will change cars for his des-
tination, without charge, passengers being
permitted to ride from one end of the line
| to the other for
THE USUAL FARE OF CENTS.
| If this electric system is adopted, the city
will have fifteen miles CT electric road
which is about equal to the total amount of
lines in operation before work was com
menced on the new system. Of course, in
putting in the electric lines, it becomes
necessary to replace the old rails with new
and heavier ones, and the mules, which are
of no use whatever for any other purpose,
will be left on the hands of the company.
In order to utilize this waste of material the
company has requested the city council to
grant them the privilege of putting in new
lines. In the event of such a franchise being
granted, they propose to take all the old
rails which are being taken up and replaced
by heavier ones for the electric Car line,
and lay them along the streets and portions
of the city not now having street car accom-
modations. Lines will be run north and
south along West Temple, First East, Third
East and other streets. One will be run
northward from the Utah s. Nevada depot
to North Salt Lake, touching other points
to the north and west Besides these, many
other cross lines will be put in as feeders,
furnishing accommodations to every part of
the city.
IF THIS SCHEME Is CARRIED OUT
as prop osed, this city will have double its
former number of miles of street car lines.
The officials say, however, that if the fran
chise is not granted, they must stop build
ing electric lines, as they cannot afford to
winter their mules with nothing for them
to do. Over fifty head are now idle, and
when the lines now nearly completed put
on electric cars, they will have $50 idle
mules, besides having 200 tons of useless
old iron rails. The electric plant is now
running at only one-tifth it's capacity and
! if all their proposed electric lines are
placed in operation, they will still have
One-half of their capacity left, besides hav-
| ing all arrangements made to double their
present power. They propose to utilize this
surplus in furnishing power to those who
need it in various parts of the city to run
elevators, etc.
4 PETITION
| is being circulated by the citizens in the
north and western part of the city, setting
forth in strong terms their desire to have
| the extension of the electric and other
street car lines pushed as rapidly as pos
| sible in order that the citizens who now
| racaiva M henatit from the car, lines NAV