The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-08
Deeds For More Than Half of
Ground Recorded.
RIGHTs-oF-wAY BOUGHT
CONDEMNATION SUITS LIKELY
AGAINST BOOKSELLERS.
City Council Committees Will Final
ly Consider Franchise Question
Tonight-Already $50, 900 Paid
For Land For Union Depot and
Trackage Uses.

BY filing for record with the county
recorder deeds of conveyance to d. C.
Dodge from E. B. wicks and ]. W.
Skinner for property fronting on
Fourth West street, and also for track
age on this street from the north and
south. another move was noted yes
lterday in furtherance OF the union de-
pot project.
An abstract of the several deeds from
Wicks TO General Manager Dodge of
the Rio Grande Western Railway COM
pany shows the conveyance of more
than one-half of the area of the west
half of the two blocks fronting west
on Fourth West street from Second to
Fourth South. According to the reve-
nue. stamps affixed to the deeds, Wicks
was reimbursed in a sum aggregating
$4,000 for the. purchases quietly made
by him last August for the union depot
promoters.
On the block south of Third South
street. No. AZ, the deeds entered for
record yesterday convey all of lots
and 4. 20X20 rods. or the two inner
quarters. together with Tx7 rods on the
northwest corner. All of lot and Isl
square rods remain to be conveyed by
deed from Mr.. Wicks or his grantors.
Assuming that the west half of block
streets. stands alone. the deeds ac-
quired by Mr.. Dodge on this block call
for the entire west frontage on Fourth
West, ten rods deep. except 6x10 rods
on TIE southwest corner, and 9214x99
feet OIL Second South east Of Fourth
West street. In addition. however.
6lsX10 rods on Third South west of the
center line of the block and 26.S square
rods on Second South street from
eight roGs west of the center line, are
included in yesterdays deeds.
Condemnation Suits Likely.
The probabilities are that nearly all
of the several owners of the remaining
1875 square rods are under contract to
convey their holdings to Wicks for his
clients, but these who are still de-
mandiEg excessive considerations will
likely soon be proceeded against as in
cases of seizure and condemnation of
property for railroad purposes. The
union depot projectors. in other words
the Oregon Short Line and Rio Grande
Western companies, are now in pos
session Of enough ground on these two
blocks to give them strong footing
in court in Il contest TO elbow non-sel- ;
lera out at prices to be adjudged by
trial juries.
Rights-of-Wa Bought.
With. three other deeds filed for rec
ord yesterday by Mr.. Dodge,s represent
tatives, he came into fun possession of /
the ris,lt-cf-way recently purchased /
for the Rio Grande Western railroad to
run it's main line tracks into Fourth
West street from the north and also
from the south. For a stated consid-
Grafton of $3.50 j. w. Skinner has
decided q 200-foot strip of land along
side the Oregon Short Line track north
westerly from Fifth North street to an
Intersection with the Rio Grande
Western mainline on Ninth north. The
conveyed was bought last
August by Skinner from Thomas c.
Sherman, G. f. Culmer and Kate NJ.
Hofstra and runs through blocks 81.
los and 1O9, plat G: 1856. plat A; and
blocks 81 and IS. Kinney & Gourlay's
plat.
For the purpose of running the Rio
Grande Western main line on to Fourth
West street. from Sixth West near
Ninth South, deed from w. II. Myers
for twenty lots in Fountain Place sub
division has been obtained for a stated
of 81 COO
In another deed from Skinner TO
Dodge lots in Fountain Place and block
IS, Kinney q Gourlays plat, were Sc
cured for S1.S0C.
Still another move will be made to-
night in furthering the union depot
project by the city council committees
on municipal laws and streets giving
inal consideration, before reporting to
he council, to the petition of the rail-
road companies for franchises to N,on-
struct and maintain the depot build
ng across Third South street and for
use of Fourth West in and
)ut of the union station