The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-04
EAGER FOR NEW
TROLLEY GRANT
Promoters of Salt Lake.0gden
Railroad Present Case.
ROUTE ALONG FIRST WEST
IN FORMER FRANCHISE BUR
LINGToN WAS INTERESTED.
ROUTE ALONG FIRST WEST
THE promoters Of the project to build

! THE promoters Of the project to build
! an electric railroad, connecting Salt
Lake CITY and ogden and to be OPP
Grated like eastern iRter-urban trolley
/ lines. are very anxious that the city coun-
! eli grant them a franchise to construct
/ and operate part OF the road in this city.
| Gideon A Gibbs of Salt Lake and j. +.
/ McCaTrOn OF Detroit, who with mis- fel-
/ low townsman. r. +. Flattery, are the pc
/ titiOners for the franchise, appeared last
night before the council committees on
streets and municipal laws TO urge the
granting of the franchise. and the two
| first named made earnest statements in
support of their plea.
Mr. McCarrOn stated that the estimate
of cost of constructing and equipping the
road from Salt Lake to Ogden would be
about $4,000. and of this amount Mr.
Flattery, he said, is abundantiy able 10
bear the entire burden. but his friends
and associates in Detroit would take a
share in the enterprise.
In further response to Chairman
| Thomas as to the rating of the parties
behind the project. Air. MCCaTrOn gave
the Peoples Savings bank of Detroit and
Manager Lawrence OF the lnteTna tOual
Construction company and a director or
the Guaranty Trust company, also of De
troit. as his references. with request
that inquiry be made OF them as to the
financial standing of the hackers, The
man from Detroit further explained the
situation by reading a letter from Mr..
Lawrence to the effect that the franchise
is desired by May or not at all
Hourly Service; Cheap Fares.
Citing the successful operation of cleo
tric suburban roads in various parts of
the east. extending from sixty TO 200
miles from the various metropolitan
cities. Mr. McCarTOu stated that he and
his associates proposed to operate first
class road. one that would ultimately eX-
tend as far north as Logan and adjacent
towns and as far south as Provo and its
tributaries An hourly car service Is
contemplated. and the round trip fare be-
tween Salt Lake and Ogden would be as
low as 81. It is also proposed he addeu,
to cater to the transportation Of light
freight. such as garden and dairy pro-
ducts. and cut rates would be in effect,
for the reason that the kind of road TO
he operated can be operated more chedply
than steam locomotive railways.
Chairman Thomas remarked IN calling
for information about the financial status
of those who intend building the inter-
urban electric road in Utah. that the COM
mittee did not feel disposed 10 grant any
more pa per franchises, after the eX-
Derience I'm the council a year or more
ago. when it could not be shown saus-
factorilv who were TO be the hackers Of
the schemes.
The draft Of the proposed franchise
provides for standard single or double
-Idth lcAllt'ic 10 iit 4-iftletNN'A y ~
tricity. LIQUID air or compressed air, COM
mencing ut the intersection of Third
South and First West and northward on
the latter street. Mr.. Gibbs requested
that the route be changed from across
the Warm Springs property to the street
on the south and west Of the springs,
crossing the tracks of the Consolidated
Railway & Power company, running
thence northWosteTly along the highway
to the outer limits of the city toward
OGDEN