The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-23
TROLLEY LINE TO
CARRY FREIGHT
Broad Franchise Asked by
Smoot-Loose Road.
PROPERTY-OWNERS PROTEST
COUNCIL ORDERS THAT TENTH
WEST STREET BE OPENED.

franchise giving the power Co carry
freight and express. as well as passen-
gers. is asked by the promoters of the
new electric road. which Is TO run through
salt Lake city on It's way between
SPringville and Provo and Brigham CIV.
Inc ordinance which has been prepared
Tor consideration by the Salt Lake CITY
council gives broad powers 10 the COM
pany and Few restrictions. The route Is
not precisely as stated i'm the petition.
Wnlch was sent into the council AT last
tVepingS meeting. and there are spvera!
other features in the ordinance not hlIn-
eftO brought out. A branch line is TO
be run on First North street from Sec
Ond West street TO Ninth West street.
Provision Is made for compensation &c
the city OF One-half of one per cent OF
the gross earnings for the first five
years and one per cent OF the gross earn
lngs thereafter, but exemption from 9th
cr taxation is to be given.
The persons asking the franchise arc
4. r. Sterfey. Milando Pratt and F. M
lyman, IT.. who represent United states
senator Reed Smoot, State Senator c. h.
Loose and others. The ordinance as
framed gives a franchise as follows:
Franchise Asked For.
That T. p Steffey, Milando Pratt ana
r. NJ. Lyman jr., their successors and
assigns. have the authority and consen,
of the city council and the permission II
hereby granted them TO construct and
orerate by electric motive power a doU-
bia-track railway, with the necessary
switches and turnOuts for the accOmmO-
dation Of said road on the following
streets and roadways of Salt Lake City.
namely:
Commencing at the intersection Of
Tenth South and Second West streets. and
running thence east along Tenth South
street 70 its intersection with First
West street; thence north along the west
side OF said First West street 10 -
point where the San Pedro. Los Angeles
81 Salt Lake railroad (OreCOn Short Line
turns ri off of sal "A
y First West street: thence nOrtheasterly
y across said San Pedro. Los Angeles z.
salt Lake railroad Oregon Short Lind
railway 70 the center Of said First West
street; thence north on said First West
street TO its intersection with First
North street; thence west on said First
North street TO Second West street;
thence north on said Seecn1 ---~-f 80
TO its intersection with Eighth North
street and the county roau, tA>u-e
northWeSterly and nOrtherly along said
county road to the north limits Of said
Salt Lake city. Also commencing at the
intersection Of First North and Second
West streets. and running thence west on
said First North street to Ninth West
street"
Further on are the following provisions:
The price Of a single passage within the
limits Of Salt Lake City shall not exceed
cents. and no charge shall be made in
excess thereof. Express and freight rates
Shall he equitable and uniform. And the
said grantees and their assigns shall pay
into the city treasury on the last day OF
December, 1904 and annually thereafter. a
license tax of q sum equal to one-haIf OF
one per centum Of the gross earnings of
said railway for the first five years OF
the life Of this franchise: and ore per
oentum Of the gross earnings of said
railway for the remainder of the life of
this franchise. but otherwise said COM
pany shall not be liable TO any per capt.
Ia tax whatever TO the city.
Trackage Privileges.
1t is further provided that whenever
the city council shall grant TO any other
person or company a franchise for a rail-
way over or along any OF the streets
herein granted, and il shall be necessary
in the opinion of said council 70 secure
such other persons or company a con-
rection with any important center or
terminus without increasing the number
of tracks, then the grantees herein shall
allow running arrangements over gran
tees tracks to such other persons or
company making equitable payment for
constructing. maintaining and operating
the portion of said grantees tracks so
used.
The section as 70 time for completing
the road is as follows: That II this
grant. with the terms and conditions
therein contained. be not accepted in
writing by the said grantees within thir-
" (5o days after the passage OF this
resolution, or If the work be not. com
menced within six 90 months after said
acceptance. this grant to become null and
void and as to all streets herein granted
upon which the road shall not be com
pfeted and i'm operation within twelve no,
months after the date Of said acceptance.
this grant TO become null and void"
The petition for the franchise was TO
have gone I'm at the meeting Monday even
4 Ing. but the required certified check had
not been deposited, and the petition did
not get In until last evening. With il
came a protest from George G. Lambert.
W A. Needham. r. X. Thomas. l. S.
Hills. a. Keyser and about fifty others.
The protest was as follows:
Protest Is Entered.
THE undersigned residents and prop
erty owners Of First West street hereby
protest against the granting of the fran
Chise asked for along said street for an
electric car line. being convinced that il
said franchise be granted for general pas
senger traffic It will eventually merge
into general freight traffic and damage
the property fronting on said street, as
pied by the railway lines i'm the western
part Of the city has already been dam
aged.
The petition and protest we're both re-
ferred 20 the committees on streets and
municipal laws.
The committee on streets reported as
Regarding the petition Of J. W. VIII
son ct al, that Tenth West from South
Temple to North Temple be opened a
, crossing put i'm on south Temple, a bridge
built across City creek on North Temple
that South Temple from Eighth West 10
Jordan river be graded. We recommend
that the petition be granted. that the
Oregon Short Line Railway company and
the Salt Lake g. Los Angeles Railway
company bc instructed to put i'm a cross
ing on South Temple street. plank and
gravel the same, and that a bridge be
built across City creek on North Temple
az a cost not 20 exceed 80
The report was adopted
May Be a Clash.
The g. e. o. Transfer company. salt
Lake City Transfer company and others
asked that "A horse watering trough be
placed at the spring on Second South
street. between Fourth and Fifth West
streets. to be used especially by horses
hauling freight 20 and from the Rio
Grande depot. This Is the spring on
which the Utah Ice & Cold storage com
pany has filed with the state engineer
The petition went TO the committee on
watcrworks. There may be a clash be
tween tho city and the company over
control Of the spring.
They haven't got their franchise yet
10 pipe that water remarked Council
man Black.
Building Inspector Timer reported that
- per cent OF the contract work OF the
city jail had been completed fourth
estimate of $l2,9il.16 was therefore due.
and the council. after FCrnStTOm had
been persuaded to Withdraw objections
ordered this paid.
II was ordered that 4. G. HamIin be
paid N.6S4.SO balance due on his con-
tract for the construction Of the new $50
lation hospital now completed
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