The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL
THE MATTER DISCUSSED AT
LENGTH LAST EVENING.
A Committee of Five Appointed to
Confer With the City Attorney
Director Allen Makes a Statement
in Behalf of the Company.

Formerly passed granting Pioneer
square for terminal purposes. Council
man Stewart was made chairman.
THE PETITION.
The petition of the company was
read as follows:
To the Honorable President and Mem
bers of the City Council:
Gentlemen-On March IL your hon
orable body duly passed d resolution
entitled "a resolution granting Pioneer
square to the Utah & Pacific Improve
menit company for railroad depot pur-
poses" Some OF the conditions in said
resolution we have been unable to COM
ply with. The fact is due, not to any
lack OF effort on our part, but to the
TACT that We are now passing through
critical period in the history Of our
nation, a period when western men
and western measures must combat
unusual difficulties and delays 1t
matters NOT what may be our per-
soual convictions, your honorable body
recognizes the utter inability of any
man or company to make other than
preliminary progress in the face of
such opposition
We believe your honorable body, as
we'll as the people at large, have faith
in u.s. and that the labor we have I'M
dertaken will be ultimately completed.
We have by no means been idle; on
the contrary, we have progressed IS
rapidly as business judgment would
warrant under existing conditions. Our
surveys are nearly completed, QUIZ sta-
ti5tical information has been compiled.
Our negotiations with existing lines
are in fair way to be closed on such
terms as will assure the greatest good
to Salt Lake. Our relations with cap
frp1n ITr-fif
be able to begin active operatf ons just
as soon as confidence is restored. We
have not burdened citizens generally
with our cares and costs to aid us, but
we do now Petition your honorable
body to extend to us additional time
In which to comply with the immedi-
ate terms of said resolution, believing
that You fully appreciate the situation
and knowing that you and your con-
stituency are earnest in your desire to
promote the welfare of this city and
state
Your petitioners beg to assure you
that we will continue to use every eff
fort to fulfil the conditions which may
be imposed upon us, and we will feel
that in your extension of the conces-
sion we have the hearty endorsement
of the people in this work. Your petit
TONERS will ever pray, etc. Respect
fully,
UTAH & PACIFIC IMPROVEMENT
COMPANY, By J. NJ. ALLEN,
For Committee.
THE OLD GRANT.
The old grant provided that the
company was to have ten miles of
grade in course of construction ait the
end of ninety days; fifty miles of road
completed ait the end of six months:
fifty miles of road completed and u1,-
Ger operation at the end of one year;
seventy-five miles of road completed
and under operation at the end of
eighteen months, and 100 miles COM
pleted and under operation in Utah
within two years, all provisions dat
ing from March II, 1896.
The company now comes i'm and asks
that all these provisions be stricken
out except that one which provides
that 100 miles of road shall be conn
pleted and in operation Within two
years from March u, 1896
Appended to the prayer was the
draft of resolution embodying the
changes asked for as above.
Dale offered an amendment provid-
ing that fifty miles of the road be
completed and in operation one year
from September r. 1896, and to have
fifty miles additional in operation by
March, 1898. He also desired to have
Incorporated a. provision that trains
be running to the square before the
is granted title to the ground
LIE PROHoN FAvoRs IT.
LIE Prodlpn was in favor of granting
the company everything it had asked
for. The management had come for
ward very manfuhly and acknowledged
their Inability to comply with the for
nleT req lfrementS, and it was but fair |
to grant new concessions.
MR.. ALIENS STATEMENT.
Mr.. Allen. the representative of the
said the amendment pro-
posed by Dale was entirely satisfactory. |
The company was acting in good faith. !
The council had shown itself willing
to support the enterprise and ceded the |
square under conditions that were en-
tdrely acceptable at the time, but un-
foreseen conditions had arisen. The
financial condition. of the present time |
was not very encouraging and the slow
progress in the segregation of the
Oregon Short Line had acted as am Obj
Stacle I'M the way Of carrying on the
work. He had no objections to Dale's
but in enforcing such a
clause 1t was practically forcing the
company to build 100 miles, as the
road could not obtain any tonnage
short of operating that distance.
A COMMITTEE.
LIE Prohon moved for the appoint
nenf of a committee of five with the
city attorney associated to confer al
some future time and draft resolu-
ton embodying the amendments as
and present it at the next
meeting of the city council
Diefll spoke in favor of granting the
concessions prayed for, believing that
the company was acting in good faith.
President Newell favored granting
the petition under certain restrictions
He did not believe the company could
do much in the way of raising money
until after the general election.
After some further debate the mo-
ton to appoint a committee Of five
carried, and the chair named LIE Pro-
hon, Dale, Diehl, Newell and Mulvey.
THE MEDICAL SOCIETY.
Prior to- adjournment the members
took favorable action ON a request
from the Salt Lake Medical society
for the use of the council chamber
October 1 and 2 for It's annual meet
ing.