Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-19
HAS |NTERURBAN
GOT COLD FEET?
Looks as Though All Its Big
Plans Are Going to
Dissolve.
STREET CAR co. is VERY BUSY.
ON the Other Hand Hartman Inter-
csts Arc Making surveys and
Generally Getting Ready.

II begins to look very much as though
Harrimans acquisition of the Titan
Light & Railway company's holdings
in Salt Lake and vicinity had given the
promoters of the Salt Lake & Garfield
interurban road bad case OF cold
feet"
To date the promoters of the proposed
system of up-to-date electric lines have
not filed any articles OF incorporation
although they have been prepared ready
for entry for couple OF months past.
Around headquarters In the Herald
building the force OF engineers ana
others on the payroll have for days
past been decidedly idle. The force OF
engineers In the field three weeks ago
We're called In and laid OF subject to
call.
OPTION EXPIRES TO-DAY.
Up to gas this afternoon the option
given on Saltair beach and the Salt
Lake 4 Los Angeles railroad had not
been taken up II expires tonight ana
1t would be reasonable 10 suppose that
II 1t We're 10 be taken up the sum re-
quired TO bind the second payment
would be forthcoming before the banks
closed for the day at 3. p. m.
The options on the Sanpete Valley
road. the coal lands % miles further
west, the depot site at the rear of the
Cullen hotel, etc, one and all are still
IN the air.
All official OF the proposed lnterurhan
this morning did not care 10 be quoted
on the situation but 1t was evident thai
he was In a pessimistic mood. 'While
we may be Obliged TO abandon some OF
our original plans" he said, I'VE are
here to do business. Then he added
hopefully. you know this Is but one
OF many propositions We have in the
country We have spent good money
here and II would be poor business 10
abandon the field"
SCARED OF HARTMAN.
Around town the common gossip Is to
the effect that the fine ltalinn mana OF
T.. II. Hartman is In evidence In block
ing the plans OF the mysterious stfahg-
ers who proposed TO make SAT- Lax
valley a suburban Utopia
SURVEY TO GARFIELD.
While the promoters of the rapid
transit scheme have been lying on their
oars the Utah Light & Railway com
pany has been rushing things. On sat
urday the force OF engineers in the
employ of the company competed a
survey from Twelfth South to earned
as straight as the crow tiies. IN anui-
ton the street car company Waicn 70
now owned by the Hartman interests
has secured an option on me west oius
Rapid Transit company's right OF way
Tpd IA. " sisaTs ~ Ssa IsRry Il @s BAD
cock of the Southern Pacific Is mere
looking over the property and listins
improvements while q gas expert rom
Portland or. Is overhauling the gas
plant prior 10 making a report
IMPROVEMENTS OUTLINED,
A special executive session of the city
council was held this morning In Mayor
Thompson's office at which the repre-
sentatives Of the Hartman system,
which now has control of the street
car system Of the city, outlined cerlah
improvements which 1t proposes 20
make in the system and asked for the
support of the council In that matter
The principal matter brought up was
the laying of better steel throughout
the city and ballasting the tracks. III Is
proposed to do this in substahtlal
manner so that II will not have To De
done again for years and the traction
officials wanted some assurance IRON
the council that they cosd get the
proper grades for that great improve
ment at the required time 80 that they
would not be compelled to make any
changes In the grade after the improve
ments were once made.
MORE FRANCHISES.
Those who appeared before the couh-
eli IN the interest Of the Hartman COM
many were President w. Fl. Bancroft,
ATTY. T.. L. Williams, u. ), Spencer
and Engineers Babcock and HQnnold.
These gentlemen told the members OF
the council what the company proposed
to do IN the way OF improving the road
bed, and the extension Of lines IN or
der 20 improve the car service IN the
CITY and wanted the assurance OF the
council that II would support them In
the improvements. II Is expected that
I'm the near future the company VIII
ask the council for franchises TO eX-
tend several OF their lines In order to
give better service. one extension pro-
posed is north from the Warm Springs,
So that the residents of North Salt
Lake viii be given a street car SER
vice.
Judging from the sentiment ex'
pressed, the council win grant the com
pany any reasonable concessions II
asks In order To promote the contem-
plated improvements.