The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-17
FREIGHT HAUL IS
WITH THE council
Session Is Largely Spent in
Argument Over Street
Railways Request.
A FRANCHISE is ASKED
RIGHTS FOR ELECTRIC CARS ARE
NOW BEING CONSIDERED.

! The right to haul freight over the lines
of the Utah Light & Railway company to
+ Fort Douglas viii be granted by the city
council by resolution unless all present
/ indications go WrOng. The right will be
granted by resolution instead of by fran
Chise for the purpose Of giving the freight
hauling tryOut If no serious objections
arise after six months or some other pc
/ Rod TO be named, franchise viii likely
be granted.
This was made almost certain after a
night of Orat0ry before the recess meet
ing of the city council last night in
which several speeches were made in ia
vor OF allowing the street car company
| to haul freight 10 the fort. but none
against, except as were offered by MEM
4 bers of the council
The freight proposition came before the
council in report from the joint COM
mittees on municipal laws and streets,
faVOriug the adoption OF a resolution by
the council granting the privilege 1t ap-
peared that ten members of the council
would favor such a resolution. COuncilmen
w. Mont Ferry, L. f. Hall and L. ID. Mar
tin, with City Attorney Fl. j. Dininny
were appointed as special committee to
consider the matter
Plea Made for the Horse.
Several women were present. represent
ing the Humane society, and Mrs. George
y Wallace made plea for the horse as
an argument why the street car company
should carry the heavy freight to the fort
Il. +. COlbOn and A. NJ French spoke for
the scheme, both on behalf of the horse
and pointed out the effect on streets
through Federal heights and NeWhOuse
park as result of the heavy loads, ID. ).
Spencer, for the street car company, said
the company would prefer to have a fran
chise drawn for the hauling of freight
both to enable the United States govern
ment to know what 10 expect in this mat
ter and to base the contract Of the com
pany.
Most of the members Of the council got
together later to listen to /. J.. LangfOrd
and Joseph Nelson, officers Of the Salt
Lake & Los Angeles Railroad company
and the Saltair Beach company, in re
gard TO the proposed franchise for this
company to run electric cars over North
Temple. Main South Temple and First
West streets. 1t now appears probable
that a franchise viii be drawn allowing
the company to lay tracks on the present
viaduct on North Temple street. with
tracks nterlacing those of the Utah Light
& Railway. forcing the Saltair company
10 build an agueduCt on North Temple
street for the City creek water and use
this for their tracks and to provide
special place to load and unload passen-
gers. Nothing was done by the committees.
The council adopted the committee re-
port recommending that the protests on
sewer extension No. go be filed and that
the work be started, as there was not Two
thirds of the property represented in the
protests.
The proposition of building q catch basin
iu City creek canyon, TO cost about S21-
eos. was held over for a week.
The protest of the Telluride Power com
pany against the city condemnlng the
East Jordan canal was filed and the spe-
ciaI water attorneys of the city VIII be
notified of this fact.