The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-10
MURRAY MOVES
FOR A CAR LINE
Would Buy the Present Road Into
Salt Lake City.
DEMANDS FIVE-CENT FARE
CITIZENS OF SHELTER TOWN DE-
SIRE BETTER CONNECTION.

as URRAY Is determined to have
III better communication with Salt
Lake City. 4 movement is now
well under way. headed by John P.
Cahoon. to purchase from the Utah
Light & Railway company the Muir
ray-Salt Lake line, together with lines
through the city or traffic arranSs-
ments over some of the lines of the
present company A part of the move
ment is d guarantee of a scent fare
from Murray to any part of Salt Lake
CITY. and from any part of Salt Lake
City to Murray
The man at the head of this move
ment is determined to carry it through
He is the president and treasurer of
the MilleT-CahOOn company pTeSid mt
and general manager of the Salt Lake
Pressed Brick company, and vice presl-
dent of the Murray State bank He
has bp-n i'm correspondence with the
officers of the Utah Light d Railway
company for some time past, trying
to secure from them a proposition as
a basis upon which a deal might be
negotiated. Up to this time he has
received no satisfactory answer. but
now he proposes to submit a propo-
sition to the company setting forth
the grievances of the people Of Muir
ray anu CUMMING WHAT AAASN ohiG W III
ing to do.
The residents of Murray feel that
they are Disseminated against unjUstly
by the Utah Light & Railway COM
pany They point to the fact that
there are four lines that are Just as
expensive to operate as the Murray
line and yet on each of these "A scent
fare is an established fact. and has
been such for years. These are the
penitentiary line. the Callers Park
line and the two Fort Douglas lines.
Gouged in Farmers Ward.
Some time ago the fare between Salt
Lake and Murray was cut to 10 cents.
but this. with the new division point
between the two cities. only aggra-
Yates matters. Formerly the fare was
10 CENTS cents from Murray TO Four
tenth South street, ; cents more to
Tenth South street. and cents more
into the city In response to the ur-
gent demands of the citizens of Muir
ray the fare between the two cities
was cut some time ago to 10 cents.
At the same time the division point
was made Thirteenth South street.
This makes it especially bad for the
people of Farmers ward. who must
cross this line going TO and coming
from their meeting house, and must
pay 10 cents each way. Formerly they
could make this trip for cents each
way 1t is only the people who make
the entire trip between the cities who
get the benefit Of the reduction to 10
cents.
Discrimination Is Charged.
But even the 10-cent fare is obiec-
tionable to The Murray citizens. They
see that Salt Lake residents can go
TO the fort, TO the university. 20 the
cemeteries and to the parks for )
cents each. while they are forced to
pay 10 cents This they consider an
imposition and they arr determined to
have a change. Just what viii be done
in case the Utah Light & Railway
company rejects all oveTtures is not
given out.
It was intimated that Mr.. Cahoon
would today submit to the officers
something in the nature of an uIti-
matum. The terms of IL would not
be outlined even for publication yes
terday, but it is understood that the
main point is the purchase Of the Muir
ray line, with traffic arrangements
over certain of the lines in the city.
An extension Of the Murray line %
the shelters is also under eontempla-
tion but 1t is no part of the propo-
sition to be submitted to the officers
of the present corporation.