The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-29
APPROVED
FOR CAR BARNS
Mammoth improvements of
Street Railway Company
are Outlined.
TROLLEY LINE TO GARFIELD
LABORERs BEING IMPORTED TO
RUSH THE WORK.

Plans were approved yesterday by
the engineers of the company and by
President Bancroft for the improve
ments to be made on the old EXPOSE
ton square by the Utah Light & Rail-
way company. Some idea Of the mag
nitude Of the improvements contem-
plated by the company may be gath
cred from the fact that the estimates
fix the expenditure at $685., 639 for the
buildings. tracks and other work to be-
done. The plans were based on the
supposition that the city council would
permit the material for structures to
be hauled over the company's lines
after midnight. and IL this permission
is granted the work will proceed at
once Otherwise it is possible soms
notifications may have to be made.
As approved. the plans call for one
large building following the outlines Of
the square and containing shops, store
rooms, machine works and other shop
facilities; storage tracks to accommO-
date 144 cars of fOrty-fve feet in
length each, and inspection pits under
each track. The Office building and
mems club house. which is to cost
SO, 900, will be located at the corner of
Seventh East and Fifth South, and is
a handsome structure with every mod
ern convenience adapted particularly
for the comfort of the occupants. The
main track entrance for cars will ba
from the Fifth South and Seventh East
sides of the square. When completed
the installation is expected to be tho
finest example in this country of what
a street-car operating plant should be.
RELAXING Its Tracks.
In addition TO this Immediate ex-
penditure of over $500. 600 the company
is relayiug as fast as possible ninety
miles of track Outside the business
district all the rail will be siXty-fve-
pound steel: inside the paved district it
is heavier. All the rOadbed Will be bal
lasted with gravel from the company
pit, to which d track two and one-half
miles long is being laid now so the
work may be expedited.
On July P. ]. Moran is to begin
paving Brigham street from Tenth
East to the reservation. When he be-
| gins the Brigham street cars viii stop
at Tenth East. so the whole of the new
paving district may be laid at once
without interruption from the opera
/ ton of cars. This arrangement is TO
! facilitate paving operations and cut
down the time for completion. Ulu-
mately it is probable the Brigham
street line will be extended to con-
nection with the Fort Douglas line at
POpperton, where a junction with the
Third avenue line will enable the com 20
pany to abandon the First avenue line
and run fort cars over either the Brig
ham street or Third avenue lines as
desired.
Line to Garfield.
The new suburban line to Garfield ia
another big undertaking which is to be
/ built soon The shortage Of labor
which has Handicapped the company is
| still hampering construction, but a
/ large number of new men are coming
| in. and operations will proceed on as
| big a scale as the labor supply will
! permit.
| Work is going on now in the compa-
ny's building. formerly occupied by the
| Tribune. on West Temple street. The
suburban lines will use this as a pas
Isenger station, and the general offices
| of the company viii be stationed there.
! Included in the plans for improve
ments is the removal of the poles from
the center of the streets throughout
the city. Poles on the Warm Springs
( line. which is being rebuilt, are all
being placed on the sides of the street;
/ the same work will be done in the
paved district as fast as poles can be
| secured Then the streets outside the
paved district Will be given attention.
| One of the immediate changes In
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