The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-16
ELECTRIC LINE to
GARFIELD IN Nj
New Road Would Mean n
to City and SmeIter
Town. II
WOULD CAUSE BUILDING
OF MANY NEW Hon
1t Is Now Virtually Asa
That the Road viii
Be Built. Il

An electric railway connecting
Lake City and The new smelter tou|.
Garfield, fifteen miles to the wsaf
been a topic OF much interest In
locality for several months. Thaf
an undertaking will materializa
that before long. Is looked upon /.
foregone conclusion.
II is true that the Rio Grandn
the Salt Lake Route already have
nections with that point and ithaf
Western Pacific viii soon be CONN
that far. But electric lines I'LL 4
that steam roads will not replace.
Is evidenced In very many plao1
| the East. where steam roads hava h
paralleled by electric lines. ana
| departure has universally proved h
financial success. And In raIl.
| building and operations the mate
| profit and loss is the ruling factor
| as II is in other lines OF business
While the two kinds of road
! form functions both distinct an
common. electric lines have folI.
steam roads much oftener than s||
roads have followed electric line
| Distinctive Function.
1t Is TO perform the di5tinctivo A.
| tions that the contemplated H.
line VIII be built. The facilitie-
handling heavy freight between th@
points and for taking ore and o|
supplies from more distant plao>.
Garfield are ample. There Is. bou-
question OF interurban travel A.
handling local food supplies, esper|
farm and garden produce, tllaz
mands attention.
A condition favoring an electric
is that the steam roads run dir
mostly barren tracts, which ara
mated as alkalI beds, and whIc1
productive only In a limited de-
Only few miles south of tIlese II
there is a more productive area th.
10 q large extent already under cI
walton. The land is higher and aI
to the north from the OQuirrh h.|
and from II the alkan either hae
drained or 1t can easily be puridtd
drainage.
VIII Help Salt Lake.
Scores Of farmers on the western
OF this region during the past
have taken their produce 10 Gar
instead of bringing II TO Salt Lab
An electric line cutting through
| region would not only bring neart=
gether the consumers and the produ
| OF farm produce grown upon II, bI
| would enable many OF the empl0
of the smelter town to obtain an On
tunity 10 raise a good part or
foods. II would also enable then
get away from the smoke OF the aI1
| ioA ,, al <~<
q great Improvement in sanitary %
tions. The last advantage would .
especial benefit to children.
The result would be n string Of sd
bar homes along the line, sirnila
those found about Murray, Sandy
Bingham Junction, where live the 3
ators of the smclters in that loc7
| These residences would doubtless Z
| from each end OF the line and VI
eventually extend along Its e
length.
Population Increasing.
1t is conservatively estimated 4
Garfield community Will soon
5000 people, and there are those,
enthusiasts, who believe that the p|
lation will be before many years q
| lial lS uTS.
II is we'll to bear in mind tha'
addition to the plans for making
field one OF the great smelter cen
Of the country. OF equal important
the plan for building extensive 2
there for concentrating the vast
! per-bearing porphyry Of Bingn
which Is to be brought AROUND
mountain by the new spur road o.
Rio Grande system. The milling
smelling industries will be botn
gantlc and permanent,
The matter OF an electric line
this city to that Industrial cent
not being overlooked, Nearly e
ago an incorporation closely allie|
the American Smelling and Ren
company, for the purpose Of const1
ing this line, was organized.
that time agents OF the company
been busy at obtaining right q
through the country described.
the company was organized IL
| found impracticable to secure 81
chise into Salt Lake. For that
the line, as the right OF way ma
obtained. has been directed towayo
| intersection OF State and ~
streets. BY this arrangement a
! dltional scent fare will bring pa
gers from that point over the pr
street car lines to any part o.
city.
| Still Another Plan.
An addition to this plan. which
| but little from the one descripn
being considered, and that is fo[
new road TO connect with a SOU
extension of the electric line OF tne
Lake & Utah Valley railroad.
| line Is closely allied by ownership
| the Telluride Power company.
tends from the intersection OF
West and Second South streets
point west of the Jordan river. e1
a mile south of Poplar Grove and
of Tenth South street. While this
does a decidedly limited business u
been kept In operation by Its pv.
and It is understood that an exte,'
of Its franchise will soon be ASKS
Should this line be extenden,
south or west, connection witr
Garfield line would result. BY tn,,
rangement, II the road were pufc1
by the smelter interests they y
gain an entrance to near the
of the town. But In case the put>
was not made, connections Wou@
low and the interurban line woulq
the advantage OF both the llnes
city as feeders to Its trafftc.
DR.. l.. F. Hummer has locate'
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