Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-26
MOVE THE TRACK
AND Do JUSTICE
Present is The Best Time to Change
Course Of Utah Central
WILL HARM LEAST NUMBER
wnm Removed 60 a Route nelow
TWolnh south VIII Cost People
Right Thousand Dollars.

1T vim cost eight thousand dollars
TO move the Utah Central tracks from
their present location ON Eighth and
Ninth South streets" said Hon IT,
Grunda Young today, 80 o. point OUT
side OF Dhe thIckly settled portion of
town. We ask the city 20 give us six
thousand dollars and We the citizens
along the present line. win raise Che
other two thousand dollars among our
selves. We think our request i7 "a fea-
sonabIe one and that in granting 70 the
city Council win be simply doing To
duty by the citizens who have peu-
toned them and by the whole city at
large: and when the facts In the case
are known we have no hesitation Zoo say-
ing that any reasonable person win
agree with Us On our contention that
the move should be made.
when the railroad company first put
It's track along the canal bank through
10 Sugar, It paid 10 the city the cum OF
six thousand d0lIauL The people
through whose property the canal right
OF way passed were tie aggr.tved par
ties but they received no compensation
from the railroad for the injury done
their property boy reason OF its c0n5ruc-
zion on the land These people gave
the right " way 10 the city Tor % canal
and not a railroad Then upon finding
no other way through 20 reach the
mouth NJ parleys canyon the railroad
asked the city for and We're granted
the privilege of using the canal right
Of way for their line, which they built
along che bank OF the canal and paid
20 the city six thousand dollars for thls
privilege
1T was bad enough FOR these land own
eTs 20 have the canal run through Their
property but they gave the right OF
way for IL because OF us immense bena
m 10 the people OF the whole clty-aui,
for that matter the whole State. IndI-
rectly. But when the railway track was
put there IN addition 90 the canal the
Injury was infinitely augmented
"Now. an we ask the city Council TO
do is 10 return 90 the railroad company
through the Councils petitioners that
six thousand dollars which % got ion
the railroad right of way that cost the
city nothing. but that ala cost The neo-
pie the decrease In valuation In their
property.
80 much FOR the consistency OF our
request 20 the Council Now for the
good the removal would do for us and
the injury IL would do others.
1T is fact that ~ any considerable
portion OF residence or business proper
~ Is damaged the injury VIII be felt by
the city at large 10 that the degree OF
value " a citys property for residence
purposes governs The number OF resi-
dents therein. an other conditions being
equal. That a railroad track running
along a street Injuries the property
along that street is accepted but the
railroads are necessary and they must
BE put somewhere. Under the demo-
cratic principle of dealing with men and
things the object Is always 20 achieve
a desirable public end by the lnhIction
OF as little harm as may be upon as few
citizens as possible. We have before us
this idea OF the greatest good 10 the
greatest number when We adj
yOcate the removal ~ the Utah
Central track from where Il Is 20 the
south OF the city. Our position ls that
the track ought 90 be moved 90 q route
AAAAAh % lIAAAN NNNNIl NI \ NfIN TO E".NNN
street We don't advocate the putting
OF the line along any public street, but
contend that the right of way should
be purchased from the property holders
along that course and have 10 securely
fenced. OF course. we must admit that
the location OF the track even there win
injure somebody. but the harm viii not
be applied 90 so many Where II viii
hurt dozen property owners below
Twelfth South 10 now Injuries probably
q thousand people In it, present lOCa.
ton. No One-nOt even "a stranger in
the Clty-would advocate the building
Of transcOnunental steam railway
through Main street because 10 would
certainly be am unreasonable PROPOSE
ton We want the Utah Central rail.
way and must have IT, but We want the
line located where IL VIII do the least
harm while II Is performing its useful
mission"
a number OF other citizens were seen
by this papers railroad representative
and there was found no opposition TO
the contention ~ Judge Young and his
fellow petitioners.