The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-08
WILL MAKE CITY
MORE BEAUTIFUL
Proposed New Lighting System
Is Being Generally
Approved.
CLUSTERS OF LIGHTS
ON ORNAMENTAL POLES
If Plan Is Adopted, Beauty of
Salt Lake Will Be Greatly
Enhanced.

Salt Lake will be one OF the most
beautifully lighted cities In the world,
II tho street lighting system that has
been outlined for the Committee on
Improvements of the City Council by
the Utah Light and Railway company
is adopted. Since early in the spring
the light company's engineers have
been at work preparing plans to be sub
mitted TO the City Council, and several
different propositions are now ready
and have been looked over by MEM
bers of the Committee on Improvements
with the result that all propositions
but one have been eliminated and that
one will be presented to the Council
at an early date.
The plans provide only for the busi-
ness OF paved districts included within
the following streets: Main and State
streets, from South Temple to Fourth
South West Temple. from South Tenn
pie to Third South: South Temple, from
State to Third West; First and Second
South, from State to West Temple;
Third South, from State street to new
Rio Grande depot on Third West, also
on Market street,
Most Desirable Plans.
The plans which are considered the
most desirable. provide for the erection
Of $50 ornamental light poles In the
sidewalks. five poles to every block on
both sides of the street and four poles
al each street intersection. This makes
the poles 115 feet apart. Each pole will
carry four lights, each Of 100 candle
power.
The poles. the design for which has
already been prepared, Is acknowl-
edged by every one who has seen the
design to be the most ornamental light
poles to be seen in any city. The lamps
Will be the new incandescents recently
put on the market by the General Elec-
trio company, known as the Gem"
lamp. The lamps, Is stated, are to be
Of 100-candle power each, with a frosted
globe and corrugated glass reflector,
making in itself a very pretty decora-
ton.
Plan as Outlined.
The plan now formulated provides
for burning all tho lamps until mid
night, or about the time the cars stop
running, and from that time until
morning 1t would be necessary to burn
about one-third OF the lamps
In the proposition which the light
company will present to the City
Council the company Will agree to bear
all the expense of installing the new
system. the cost of which is estimated
at about s225 for each Of the $50 poles
The cost of maintaining the lights, ac-
cordlng to the offer TO be made to the
Council, will be 31a cents per kilowat-
hour during the time all the lights arc
burning and cents per kilowat-hour
when only part of the lamps are In
service. This, 1t is claimed by the light
company, Is considerably less than Is
being charged In Los Angeles for a
much inferior service.
Ornamental Trolley Poles.
The Utah Light and Railway COM
pany has plans under way, which, If
this system OF lighting is adopted. Will
mean the installation of beautifully
ornamental trolley poles In all the dis
tricts where the lights are installed
The company Will endeavor to install
iron trolley poles that will be as near