Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-24
DID NOT WANT
ELECTRIC LINE.
Property Owners on First West
Street Object to the Granting
Of Franchise Asked For.
WHAT THEIR OBJECTIONS ARE.
Application and Protest Referred 10 the
Committees on Streets and
Municipal Laws.

At the adjourned meeting OF the
city council Saturday night the petit
ton Of 7. =. Steftey Milando Pratt and
| i, NJ, Lyman Jr,, for franchise to con-
struct street railway In this city
which shall be privileged to carry
freight and express as well as passen-
gers, and which shall be a connecting
link In the electric railway from
Sprlngyille and Provo to Brigham City,
was received and referred for consid.
Grafton. It is reported that Senator
Reed Smoot and state Senator c. +,
Loose are backing the project and that
the petitioners are merely representing
them.
The franchise asked for requires the
work TO be commenced within six
months and completed within year
from It's acceptance, which acceptance
must be within 30 days from the grant
ing Of the franchise, For the first Ave
years the holders OF the franchise
must pay the city one-half OF one per
cent Of the gross earnings Of the rail-
way and thereafter during the life Of
the franchise they must pay into the
city treasury on or before the last day
OF December OF each year, one per cent
Of such gross earnings
The streets over which the franchise
Is asked are as follows:
Commencing at the intersection of
Tenth South and Second West streets.
and running thence east along Tenth
South street TO its intersection with
First West street thence north along
the west side OF said First West street
to point where the San Pedro Los
Angeles & Salt Lake railroad Oregon
Short Line railway turns northwest
erly of OF said First West street;
thence northeasterly across said San
Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail-
road (Oregon Short Line railway TO
the center of said First West street
thence north on said First West street
to It's intersection with First North
street; thence west on said First
North street 10 Second West street.
thence north on said Second West
street TO It's intersection with Eighth
North street and the county road
thence 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"
PROTEST AGAINST 1T.
A protest against the granting OF the
franchise was submitted to the coun-
ell. II was signed by George c. Lam
bert and about 90 other property own
ers along the proposed route of the
railway and follows In full
The undersigned residents and prop
property owners OF First West street
hereby protest against the granting Of
the franchise asked for along said
street for an electric car line, being
convinced that II said franchise be
granted for general passenger traffic Il
Will eventually merge into general
freight traffic and damage the property
fronting on said street, as the property
facing on the streets occupied by the
railway lines In the western part Of the
city has already been damaged"
Both documents we're referred to the
committees on streets and municipal
laws,
TO OPEN TENTH WEST
The following report OF the commit
tee on streets was adopted by the
council.
Regarding the petition OF ]. w. VII
son ct al. that Tenth West from South
Temple TO North Temple be opened,
crossing put in 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
& Los Angeles Railway company be in
structed to put In crossing 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 to exceed $50"
DISPUTE OVER SPRING.
A petition was received from the n.
& o, Transfer company, ct al, asking
that watering trough be placed az
the spring on Second South street be-
tween Fourth and Fifth West streets.
This Is the spring which was filed on
In the state engineers Office several
days ago BY the Utah Ice and Cold
Storage company and that there will
be a contest over Il Is now an assured
fact The petition OF the transfer COM
pany was referred 10 the committee
on wa,erworks
BILLS ORDERED PAID.
The fourth estimate on the new
city Jail contract amounting 10 VA
94i.l was ordered paid upon the rec
ommendation Of Building Inspector
Ulmer that 80 per cent OF the work
had been completed, The balance due
A. l.. Hamlin on the contract for the
new isolation hospital. amounting TO
Si,6Si so. was also placed on the APP
preparation list
FIRE CHIEF GETS THERE,
The report OF the fire committee
granting Chief Devlne a leave Of alb
sence for 80 days and 1l5O 70 pay his
expenses 10 the convention Of fire
chiefs at Atlantic City, n, J., was
adopted.
The committee on license recon-
mended that James Hegney's liquor
license be not revoked, as Il was shown
that he was In California az the time
his bartender violated the Sunday
liquor ordinance and knew nothing
about the offense. The report was
adopted