The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-19
Work to Commence Inside of
Three Weeks.
WILL SPEND 100000
SIMULTANEOUS GRADING oPER-
ATOMS FROM TERMINALS.
Oregon Short Line Getting in More
Rolling Stock, Including Three
New Diners From Pullman
Springville Firm Awarded Con-
tract For Building Spur.

Work on grading the tracks for the
Salt Lake Valley road will be COM
menced inside Of three weeks from both
the Salt Lake and Ogden ends of the
line simultaneously.
When seen yesterday, Vice-President
c A Quigley stated that the company
would spend in the neighborhood of
$4,000 on the line in putting in 10
pound rails and all the latest improve
ments in equipment and rolling stock.
During the course of conversation he
emphatically denied the rumor to the
erect that the road would ever be used
Tor any other purposes than those set
forth in the franchise.
The idea, he said, that the track
or any portion of it should be used
by the Burlington or any other steam
road is too foolish for moments no.
tlce. In the first place, the grades
OF the proposed track are out of the
question for any steam road to nego-
tlate successfully. Then. too, the fact
that the road would run through the
principal streets of the majority of the
settlements shows the utter fallacy of
the steam road story
Continuing, he said: We expect our
president, Mr.. Arthur Kennedy, to ar
rive next week, under whose super
vision the work will be started imme-
dlately. There seems to be some mis-
apprehension in regard to this railway.
put we can assure you that it is MOTH
ing but an interurban electric railway
ana will not affect the values of props
erty on the street it will run over in
salt Lake any more than any other
electric road now in operation We ex-
pect to give an uneXcelled service, and
TO do this it is necessary to have a.
heavy rail and first-class equipment.
TIE cars will be of the most modern
make, capable of seating sixty passen-
gers, and will be as easy riding as it
Will be possible TO make them. We
VIII give a service between Salt Lake
and Ogden running every hour start
ing from both points on the even hour.
and between Salt Lake and Farming
ton we expect to double track and give
a half-hOur service.
In regard to the Warm Springs
property l will say that we do not go
through it, but on the contrary simply
have a franchise over the Warm
Springs property where the city engi-
neer may direct. We expect this to be
on the bench on the extreme eastern
side of the Warm Springs property sew
eral hundred feet from the present
Ddlu MUSES.. we feel confident that
no citizen or taxpayer will find fault
with the location Of our route through
the Warm Springs property after they
see where it is located.
1T cannot, in the nature Of things,
hurt this property. This road will be of
great convenience to the people of Salt
Lake and Ogden, and more especially
to the residents of BOuntiful, Woods
Cross, Pennington and Kaysville, as it
will bring these settlements into quick
and frequent communication with the
cities Of Salt Lake and Ogden. Wher-
ever these interurban electric lines are
built they prove of great benefit, not
only to the terminal points, but to the
intervening towns, and invariably
prove themselves necessity. After the
road is once in operation it will be then
difficult TO find an ObjectOr to the line"
1t was stated yesterday on the street
that, provided the interurban line to
ogden prov a success, it would ex-
tend its tracks in the direction of Bing4
ham, taking in the West Side Transit
track, which runs down First West to
Tenth South, thence west on that street
to Garden City. The citizens of Gran
ger, TaylOrSville and West Jordan view
this project with extreme satisfaction
and are willing to give the company
deeds to enough land to build a track
along the Redwood road leading to
those settlements.