The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-18
THEY Will CONSIDER IT.
The New Street Railway Fran
chise Comes Up Wednesday.
TEARING UP PAVEMENT
Considerable Objection Made to the Prop
osition on This Ground-Ths Fran
chise Does Not Say When the
Work Must Be Done.

railroad the privilege OF building q
new street car line to South Butte and
incidentally to tear up some more of
Butte's Main street pavement will be
considered by the committee either to-
morrow or on Wednesday afternoon.
and will be considered by the council
at its meeting on Wednesday evening.
There is no doubt that there il a gen.
eral desire for a line down Main street
to South Butte. but there is naturally
a good deal OF opposition to tearing up
the block OF pavement between Park
and Galena streets in order to lay the
street car track. There are some who
cannot understand why the street rail-
road company could not have decided
that IL woul want to lay this track
before the pavement was laid. 1t cer-
tainly will not benefit the Main street
pavement to keep on tearing 1t up ana
relaying IL.
However, 1t does not seem to have
been generally observed this there is
nothing i'm the franchise which says
when the street car company shall lay
this new line. 1t can start building 1t
the day after the franchise is granted,
or IL can build it next year or 10
years hence or a quarter of a century
hence. 1t seems strange that The com
pany should not be limited as to the
time when ii can begin the construc-
ton of the line or as to the time when
the line must be completed. As IL
reads. the franchise merely gives the
company the privilege of constructing
this line IL il should ever desire to do
SO. but there is not a paragraph or a
line which makes 1t obligatory on the
company to build the line.
The main points of the franchise
asked for may be briefly summarized. 1t
is to be a single track railway and is
to run from the north side of Par
street. south on Main street to either
Iron or Aluminium street, as the coun-
Gil may designate; thence west to Col
orado street. thence south on Colorado
to Fremont street; thence east on FIRE.
mont street to Main street; thence
south oil Main street. Missouri avenue
or Iron avenue to Front street. Also
from a point on said line easterly o.
Second street and the county road to
a point at or near the Western Iron
works.
The franchise provides that the line
shall be operated by electricity. cable
or other improved method, such as may
be approved by the council. steam pow
er by direct attachment being, how
ever. prohibited. The space between
the rails and for one DOT each side is
to be planked by the company, n
when any portion of the streets is or
dered paved the company must pave
between it's tracks and for a foot on
each side of the tracks. The cars are
to be run on the line at least 10 times
daily at regular intervals at a rate of
speed not to exceed eight miles per
hour. The company is permitted to
charge a fare of 10 cents to South
Butte, but only 5 cents to any other
point in the city limits. As the line
only runs to South Butte, however, Ii
is probable that the company proposes
to have a scent limit station, as is the
case on it's Arizona street line to South
Butte. The company is. however, re-
quired to sell books of not more than
20 tickets each for 8 cents a ticket,
good to all points on the line. The
franchise is not exclusive. An indem-
nifying bond of slOO, 900 is required. The
failure to construct, maintain or ope-
rate any portion of the line shall work
a forfeiture of the franchise so far as
IL relates to that portion, the forfeiture
TO be after 10 days notice n may be
either declared or waived at the option
of the council, but there is nothing
which says when the company shall be-
gin the construction of the line or when
IL shall have 1t completed, and there
Is no penalty provided except the for
fixture of the franchise. The franchise
is to run for 80 years.