The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-05
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~. SOWldu, A.A Matter duu 1cO. w.
Teitsworth, their heirs, executors,
administrators or assigns to con-
struct, equip, MAINTAIN and operate
street railway lines in certain
streets in the city Of Bemidji.
The Common Council Of the
city of Bemidji do ordain as
follows:
Section /: 1t is hereby granted
to Carl c. Gowran. A. A, Carter
and George w. Teitsworth, their
successors, heirs, executors, ad-
illustrators or assigns, the author
lty, right and privilege to con-
struct, equip, maintain and oper-
ate street railway lines for trans
portation of passengers and trans
portation of freight for their own
use, with single or double tracks,
with all necessary spurs, side
tracks, switches with poles, wires,
conduits and appliances and tele-
phone wires on traction poles or
conduits for its own use without
compensation or hire over and
along streets, avenues and alleys
IN the city of Bemidji hereinafter
mentioned to-wit:
Commencing at the North end
OF Doud Avenue where it now ter
inmates or where any further ex
tension thereof may terminate.
thence along Doud Avenue to
tenth Street, thence along Tenth
Street to Minnesota Avenue, thence
along Minnesota Avenue to Second
Street; thence along Second Street
to Bemidji Avenue; thence along
Bemldji Avenue to the street or
highway constituting a southerly
extension thereof across the
Mississippi River between Lake
Irvine and Lake Bemidji, and
along such streets highways or
alleys east of where said highway
crosses the Minnesota & Inter-
national Railway company's right
OF way, first in an easterly and
then northeasterlv directlon along
the highway as now or hereafter
established to the north limit of
the city east of Lake Bemidji
And one line commencing at
at the intersection of the north
limits OF the city of Bemidji and
Irving Avenue extended north;
thence south along the extension
OF and SAID Irving Avenue to Tenth
Street, thence east along Tenth
Street to Minnesota Avenue.
Section 2: The said Carl C..
Gowran, A. A. Carter and George
w. Teitsworth, their heirs, execu-
tors, administrators, successors
and assigns shall have the right
to op crate said lines of railway by
means of electricity or such other
power or force as may be deemed
advisable, provided that no loco
motive or moter propelled by steam
horse power. gasoline or ex-
plosive power shall ever be
used on said lines of railway
or any part thereof within
the limits of the city of Bemidii,
nor shall any power be employed
on said lines or any part thereof
within the limits of the city of
Bemidji which shall be a public or
private nuisance or shall onstitute
an additional servitude to the
property abutting on said streets.
Section 8: The said Carl C.
Gowran, A. A. Carter and George
w. Teitsworth, their heirs, execu.
tors, administrators, successors
and assigns, are hereby granted
authority and permission to enter
upon all streets, alleys and side
walks herein mentioned and in
cluded in the routes designated,
or any part of them, to construct,
build, maintain. equip and oper-
ate such railway lines. side tracks,
switches, and condu1ts, and to
place, erect and secure poles,
columns, wires, conduits and ap-
Pllances which may be necessary
or convenient IN the construction.
building, maintaining and opera
ton OF said lines of railway, pro-
vided that in the operation of
power plants, if located within
the city of Bemidji for the purpose
OF generating power, no bitumin-
Gus coal shall be burned or used
except by permission first had and
obtained from the Common Coun-
Gil of the city of Bemidji.
Section 4: All poles or &C lumns
erected under this ordinance shall
be OF such size, style height and
material, and shall be placed at
such points on the margin OF the
street side OF the sidewalks or
boulevards and at such distances
apart between centers as shall be
designated by the city engineer,
and shall be erected and the wires
and the other appliances strung
and fasteded thereon, under the
supervision and subject to the
inspection and control of the city
engineer; and all conduits con.
structed shall be along the margin
OF the street side of the sidewalks
or boulevards and at least two feet
underneath the level of the side