The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-02
COMPANY WILL
ASK CONCESSION
Utah Light & Railway Corporation
Wants Power Rate Changed.
ACTION is EXPECTED SOON
CITY MAY GO AHEAD WITH CON
DOMINATION PROCEEDINGS.

The Utah Light & Railway company
has as yet made no move to accept or
reject the ordinance consolidating and
uniformly extending its franchises so
that they viii all expire Jan. I, 1850. 1t
is said. however. that the officials of
the Utah Light & Railway company
have decided to accept the ordinance.
provided they can induce the requisite
number of the councilmen to agree 50
To amend it as to eliminate the pro-
vision requiring the company to fur
nish electrical energy TO the general
public at the same price as to the city,
Ia cents per kilowatt hour, and to eX
tend the lie of its franchises so that
they will expire Jan. l. 1855. giving it
a full fifty years from Jan. 1. 1905
These notifications in the ordinance
will, IL is said. be asked within the next
two weeks. The indications are that
the first viii he readily granted, but it
IS probable that the majority of the
councilmen win be opposed to adding
on the extra five years The only thing
that will induce them to consent to do
so win be their desire to remove the
final obstacle to the construction of the
proposed extension Of the municipal
water and sewer systems.
1t is probable that by the time the
Utah Light q Railway company makes
its next move i'm the franchise matter
Consulting Engineer A. +. DOremus
will have approved the plans and spe-
CificatiOnS of the water and sewer Sys-
TENS, and the city council viii have in
structed the city engineer and the board
of public works to begin the construc-
ton of those projects.
May Proceed to Condemn.
Should the Utah Light & Railway
company manifest a disposition to pro-
long the agony by asking for changes
in the ordinance that its officials knOa
the council Will not grant there Will
be resolution put through the cOun-
ell inStructing the citys legal depart
inent TO begin condemnation proceed
inSS to acquire possession of.>as much
of the land owned by the UtaR Light
& Railway company and associated in
terests along Big Cottonwood creek
as may be required in the construction
of the Big Cottonwood conduit. power
stations, reservoirs. etc.
Work Will Not Wait.
As soon as this resolution is adopted
and signed by Mayor Morris the city
engineer viii begin setting stakes in
the land belonging to the company
along the creek, and the actual con-
StruCtiOn of the conduit viii be COM
menced. IF the company objects. the
city will give a bond to indemnify it
for any loss or damage it may sustain
and viii go right along with the work
we are going to wait the motions of
the Utah Light & Railway company a
short time, and a short time onlyN'
said a city official yesterday, land if
II does not announce whether it will
accept or reject the consolidated fran
'chise given il by the council. we will
act on the assumption that il does not
want to do business with the city and
viii begin condemnation proceedings
Then it viii have a chance to prove in
court that its water right on Big Cot
tonwOod is worth 100000. as claimed by
Generai Manager r. s. Campbell The
company viii be lucky if it's gets one
quarter of that amount