Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-10-08

satisfactorily settled late yesterday af
ternoon and the project of building a
street car line on Grand avenue was
abandoned. General Manager Harry
Heap of the street railway company
returned to the city yesterday and
was made acquainted with the latest
proposition of the board of supervis
ors, namely, that the company would
be allowed to construct its line on the
east side of the avenue; that this per-
mission would not be regarded as an
admission by the board of the COM
panys right to be on the avenue nor
would it be on the part of the COM
pany a waiver of the right which it
had asserted under the Dunbar fran
chise. He at once announced that the
company would not accept the propo-
sition and the work of removing the
material, begun the day before, was
resumed.
A meeting of the board of supervi-
sOrs was called for four o'clock ip the
afternoon and Chairman Adams and
Mr.. / T. Stoddard of the territorial
fair association appeared before it..
There was no longer a hope that the
board and the street car COM
pany could come to terms, so
application was made by Mr..
Stoddard for a franchise for a
road, steam or electric, from a point
on the Santa Fe to a point on the west
side of the fair grounds, 5000 feet
north of Six Points. There was no
disposition on the part of the board to
refuse the franchise but there was
some discussion as to where the
southern end of Mr.. Stoddard's line
should leave the Santa Fe. 1t was
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Nineteenth avenue at a point 700 feet
south of the Mcdowell hristy road in
order that it might be brought down
to a proper grade by the time it
should reach Grand avenue. The
track will cross Nineteenth avenue at
sharp angle and will also angle
across GraEde avenue.
This arrangement had been under
consideration for some time and the
matter had been under discussion with
the Santa Fe people. While a street
car line would give a more frequent
service the association had been una
BILE to secure the promise of line
as far north along the side of the fair
ground as they had desired, but had
compromised on an agreement tC
build the line to a point near the
grand stand. Now the track will be
built to the northern part of the
grounds so that stock may be delivered
in the vicinity of the buildings.
The arrangement includes an agree
ment to run trains from the eastern
part of the city, stopping for passen-
gers at every street crossing.
Now that the street railway contro-
versy has come to an end it is com
planned on the part of the company
that a great deal of injustice has been
done it in certain quarters. Its course
Mr. Heap says, has been miscOnstrued
and it has been charged with having
forced the delay which has ensued
Mr.. Heap says that the Nineteenth
avenue franchise was obtained in gooc
faith and the company intended to use
it until it was found that it could moi
be done in justice to the subscribers
living in west Capitol addition.
He said that the action of the board
intended to revoke the rights of the
company on Grand avenue, was takeT
without notice to the company and left
it facing a legal action if the road was
to be built. The preparation for the
building of the line was made at great
expense and the money for it had
been secured with considerable diff
Guilty. If the rights were threatened
the difficulty of getting the money &c
spend there would be increased. Fol-
this reason he had decided to pro-
coed no farther with the street rail
way improvements in that direction