The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-07-03
Wednesday, July 3, 1901
ORDINANCE NO.

Ut,
and to operate and run electric cars
and electric trains thereon.
The Cry OF SUMPrER DOES ORDAIN AS
Follows:
Section l. That q franchise for the
period of fifty years from the date of the
passage of this ordinance is hereby
granted to the Sumpter and Bourne
Railway Company, its successors and rs.
signs, to establish, locate, lay
down and maintain railway tracks, with
switches and sidings, from the northern
boundary of the corporate limits of the
City of Sumpter, South along Bourne
avenue to Granite street, thence south
along said Cracker street to the line Of
the railway of the Sumpter Valley Rail.
way Company, thence southeasterly
and parallel with said line of railway Of
said Sumpter Valley Railway Company
to Mill and Auburn streets.
Also from Cracker and Granite streets
along said Granite street to Mill street,
thence south on Mill street to the south
erly terminus thereof.
Also from Austin and Mill streets east
along said Austin street to the bound,
ary OF the corporate limits Of the said
City of Sumpter.
Also from Austin and Bonanza streets
south on said Bonanza street to the
smelter plant erected by the Union
Smelter Manufacturing Company, all in
said City of Sumpter.
Section 2. That franchise for the
period Of fifty years from the date
of the passage Of this ordinance Is here
by granted to the Sumpter and Bourne
Railway Company, its successors and
assigns to run and operate electric cars
and electric trains upon such railway
tracks as may be constructed by said
Sumpter and Bourne Railway Com.
pany, its SUCCESSORS and assigns, under
the franchises granted by this ordinance.
Section 3. That franchise for the
period of fifty years from the date Of the
passage of this ordinance il hereby
granted to the Sumpter and Bourne
Railway Company, its Successors and as
signs, to excavate for, erect and main
tain poles and wires, and such other de-
vices for the distribution of electric
power as it may deem expedient, in the
manner which may now or hereafter be
provided for by ordinance or ordinances
Of the City Of Sumpter, along the routes
of railway for the construction Of which
franchises are by this ordinance granted.
Section 4. The tracks OF said railway
shall be laid flush with the grade Of
streets where the streets are graded,
and said Sumpter and Bourne Railway
Company, its SUCCESSORS and assigns,
shall plank, pave or mecadamise, and
keep in constant repair, as the munich
shall direct, that portion Of the street or
streets along and over which said rail-
way or any switch or siding shall be laid
at grade, the whole Of said railway,
switches and sidings between the tracks
thereof, and for the width of eighteen
inches on the outside of said rails, and
for the width of the space between q
main line Of railway and any switch or
siding in connection Herewith.
Section 8. The franchises granted by
this ordinance are granted only upon
the understanding and condition that
work upon the construction OF a
OF railway by said Sumpter and
Bourne Railway Company, its successors
or.assigns, from the City OF Sumpter, in
the County OF Baker and State Of Ore.
gon, to the Town OF Bourne, in said
County and State, shall be actually com.
menced by November lst, 1901, and
thereafter continuously prosecuted to
the extent the weather permits, and
that line of railway from said City Of
Sumpter to said Town OF Bourne, shall
be completed and in actual operation by
November lst, 1902; and the City OF
Sumpter hereby reserves the right, in
the event that actual work shall not
be commenced upon said proposed line
OF railway by said November LIST, 1901,
and thereafter continuously prosecuted
to the extent the weather may permit,
or in the event that said railway from
said City of Sumpter to said Town OF
Bourne shall not be completed and In
operation by November LIST, 1902, to de.
clare by ordinance, all the rights, privi'
leges and franchises hereby granted to
said Sumpter and Bourne Railway Com