The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-05
SCORES ATTEMPT
TO MAKE GRAB
Real Estate Association Frames Reso
luton on Franchise Request.
CALLS DEMAND AN INSULT
MENTIONS STREET CAR PROVE
SioNs ESPECIALLY.

If a majority of the members of the
city council should pass the franchise
asked for by the Utah Light & Rail-
way company extending their monop-
olistic powers for another half cen
fury, it viii be in the face of a vigor-
Gus protest from the Salt Lake Real
Estate association. The committee ap-
pointed TO frame a resolution COM
pleted its Iabors yesterday. Tt will
be noticed in the following resolution.
which was unanimously adopted. the
real estate men lay particular stress
upon the wording of the franchise
concerning the street car service, a
feature that has been almost lost sight
of in the consideration of the light
question:
Whereas, The Utah Light e Railway
company, on Monday evening, Feb p.
1905 presented to the honorable mayor
and city council of Salt Lake City, Utah
what ii termed a form of franchise, .
accompanied by a request that the same
be granteds and
Whereas, 1t has been common COM
plant the past two years from the pat
rons of said corporation that some meas
ure should be adopted by the city council
whereby said corporation would be re-
Quired 70 fulfill its obligations to the
people under franchises previously grant
ed, the last of which does not expire IN
til forty-two years from this tiupe; and
Whereas, Every citizen of Salt Lake
City should receive fair treatment from
all corporations holding privileges and at
this time the storm of protests that have
been gathering, instead of eliminating
with relief, we are now confronted with
a demand that present conditions shall
continue forty-two years, anu that the
suffering public further extend the same
an additional fifty years, a. total of four
generations, in the hands OF a corporation
that. to say .he least, has been Indifferent
to the requirements of its franchise and
the rights of the people: and
I7a r,=Fa Il de- hot
this corporation shall have a blanket
franchise on virtually every street in Salt
Lake City, as will be readily seen from
the following paragraph in its applica-
ton, section second paragraph. which
reads as follows:
Each and all of the streets of Salt
Lake City on which the railroad of the
Utah Light d Railway company now is,
or which its predecessors in interest have
council Of Salt Lake City to construct
and operate q street railroad with the ad-
ditional right to extend and operate said
railroad to the city limits in any dlrec-
ton on any of said streets; provided, that
this grant shall not authorize the said
company to extend its road on any OF
said streets so as to parallel any track
owned by some other company CThere
are no other tracks except on First West
street.)
The breadth of this paragraph should
be carefully noted. as it will be readily
seen that should said corporation have
the right at this or any previous time
over one block of street in Salt Lake City.
that Under this extension il is now
granted land is not elected to exercise
until such time as it sees fiO the use Of
such street. east, west, north or south,
to the boundary limits of the city ex-
tended at any future time; therefore, be 1t
Resolved That the city council is in
honor bound to denOunce the demand of
the Utah Light & Railway company as
outrageous against public policy, and an
insult to their intelligence. and, If grant
ed death blow TO the welfare of our
city.
THE SALT LAKE REAL ESTATE AS
ISOLATION.