Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-11
PEACE DECLARED
BY THE RAILROADS
Gould and Hartman Bury the
Ratchet and Work for In.
terest of City,
REASON FOR THE CHANGE.
Building Of Western Pacific Makes 1t
Good Policy to Make Concessions
Salt Lake Benefited.

The news that the Rio Grande and
the Oregon Short Line have patched
up their differences. as set forth in the
News last night, was welcomed by
every citizen who has the best inter-
ests OF Salt Lake at heart. The spend
Ing In Salt Lake of s2,0OO00 will In it.
self have a stimulating effect upon
business generally. II the franchises
sought are granted there win be plen-
~ OF work and an attendant circulation
OF money for n couple Of years to come.
while the erection Of two big shops Will
add at least 1000 breadwlnners 70 the
population. In the train Of the con-
templated improvements VIII follow the
building up Ot the west side, along
lines that also will give plenty Of work.
The railroad hands win need cottages
In which to reside near their employ
ment and real estate owners will see
that they get them At this time the
problem Of housing the railroad en-
ployes Is getting serious and rents on
the west side are high, while there are
no vacant houses. Five roomed cot
tages In the Sixteenth and Twenty
second wards are fetching SIS and $40
a month.
From an official source comes the
word that the Hartman and Gould in
terests have concluded to bury The
hotchet While II Is not stated OUT
right that the building OF the Western
Pacific Is having anything to do with
the change in tactics, nevertheless il is
affirmed that Gould Is getting ready to
build through to the coast and that
his move has brought Hartman to
terms in regard 10 a number OF conces-
slons In this territory Among them
Is the Salt Lake situation. While II has
been impossible to come together on
big union depot proposition provision
has been made whereby both roads and
their prospective connections can enter
Salt Lake.
The last act in the famous battle Of
right-of-way that has agitated the
Gould and Hartman camps for nearly
two years past occurred in New York
at the end OF last month. when Judge
W. ID. Cornish, representing the Har-
riman interests, and General Manager
Russell Harding, vice president and
general manager of the Missouri Pa
clhc and Rio Grande systems, met
and went over the work done by Gem
eral Manager w. II. Bancroft of the
Oregon Short Line and General SUPER
intendent j. II. Young of the Rio
Grande Western towards an amicable
settlement and there and then signed
up the contracts which gave oonces-
sions 20 both corporations. Both com
panles gave and took privileges and
the result is the immediate benenting
Of Salt Lake.
Under the agreement the Oregon
Snort Line vacates that bone of con-
tenuon, the Fourth West franchise,
which the Rio Grande will apply to the
city council for on Monday night. In
return the Rio Grande viii surrender
It's trackage rights in North Salt Lake,
where II leaves the main line to the
salt Lake Min elevator, crossing the
oregon Short Line yards and site OF the
proposed new shops. Instead the Rio
Grande VIII reach the mill over the
snort Line tracks. South of Salt Lake
similar concessions for entry to the
smeiters VIII be granted along the lines
outlined last night.
The granting of the franchise for a
double track along Fourth West will
make that street north Of North Tenn
pie a four-track proposition and de-
oidedly crowded, but Il win he OF great
beneilt to the Rio Grande (a ~ POSSIBLY
the Western Pacific and the Moffat
roads, and thereby concentrate Tho
railroad trackage to the minimum of
inconvenience TO the residents of the
west side.
The situation today Is that all the old
chickering's and differences between the
two big corporations are mutually for
gotten, each has agreed to help the
other and lay no obstacles in the way
OF securing terminal facilities here.
During the process both will keep the
best interests of Salt Lake and the de.
velopment OF the city in view.