The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-20
INTER-URBAN
WILL NOT WAIT
Mailer and Associates May
Ask Franchise.
DELAY WITH CITY COMPANY
ELECTRIC LINE PLANNED FROM
PAYsoN TO LOGAN,


In case the Utah Light & Railway
company declines to gfve right of
way through Salt Lake over It's tracks
for interurban cars, B. Mshfer, pro-
moter Of the proposed new road, says
he will ask the city for a franchise.
Mr. Mahler declared yesterday that he
and the people back of him proposed
to build an electric road from PaysOn
on -the south TO Logan on the north,
through Provo, Salt Lake, Ogden aud
Brigham City. If possible. trackage
arrangements win be made with the
city railway company. II these fail,
he will ask permission of the city to
lay tracks on certain streets.
Mr.. Mailer said there had been delay
! in the negotiations with the Utah Light
& Railway company.
States His Position.
: his position was expressed in the
( following letter, dated Sept. l., sent
: 10 General Manager r. S. Campbell.
! Superintendent of Railway Service W.
/ p. Read, Secretary ]. S. Wells and
( General Counsel lie Grand Young Of
the Utah Light & Railway company:
referring to the matter of my re-
3 quest that the Utah Light & Railway
: company grant me and my assigns the
/ right to operate cars of an interurban
/ railway over certain tracks of your
company on the streets Of Salt Lake
I City, and your request that you be Civ
en- until the 1st Of November in which
TO grant or deny such right, / respect
l fully say; That the time I'm which 10
/ perfect and carry out even preliminary
( details for the construction of the rail-
road contemplated, from Payson on
the south 10 Logan on the north is eX-
ceedingly limited by the franchises al
I ready secured, and while ] have no de-
sire to unduly hasten your consider
alton Of the matter a delay until Nov.
l IS seriously embarrassing. The mat
! ter has been before your company for
J It's consideration for the past two
months, during which time I have had
several interviews with the executives
of the company. and a which confer
ences l have given such information as
was desired, and have at all times been
ready to render any assistance that
might be requested.
Roads of the character proposed
have for the past fifteen years demon
strated their utility from the Atlantic
10 the Pacific. and have become a part
Of business and social life. / see no
necessity for the proposed long delay
in addition to the time already con-
sumed, or advantage to be gained by it.
and in justice TO the enterprise 1 can
not consent TO the delay asked for"
Record of Mr.. Mailer.
Mr.. Mailer was formerly president OF
the Lake Shore Electric railway. which
extends from Cleveland TO Norwalk.
o., and runs through Toledo and San
dusky. He is now a director in the
company operating this road. which is
l62 miles long, he is a director i'm the
Northern Ohio Traction company,
which operates eighty miles or electric
railway running from Cleveland to
Akron, O.. and includes the street rail-
way system Of the latter city, He is a
stockhOlder in the following other
lines: Cleveland. gainesville & East
ern operating fifty miles; Aurora. FL
gin & Chicago, operating eighty miles
He projected the Sciota Valley Trac-
ton company that has lines running
from Columbus through circleville to
Chillicothe, o.. and from Columbus to
Lancaster O., total trackage of about
eighty miles.