Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-17
Permission to Haul Freight to
Fort Douglas to be Granted
Temporarily.
EVENING SPENT IN oRAT0RY
Consideration of Saltair Electric Line
Franchise Again Postponed
Sewer Extension to be Built.

The Utah Light and Railway COM
pany will probably be granted q right
TO haul freight over its Third street line
TO Fort Douglas as an experiment next
Monday night by the city council. After
night of oratory, the councllmen de-
cided that instead of granting the rail-
way company a franchise a resolu-
tlon should be passed giving them the
privilege OF hauling freight over this
line for six months II no serious OF
lection arises then the majority OF the
council are in favor of granting n
franchise. 1t appeared that 10 MEM
bers OF the council were in favor OF
such a resolution and Councilman W.
Mont Ferry. L. E. Hall and L. D..
Martin with City Atty. II. ]. Dnniny
were appointed as a special committee
TO consider the matter and report TO
the council next Monday night.
During the consideration Of the mat
ter number of protests were read be-
fore the council by a. Fred Wey,
Thomas Weir. NJ. H. Walker. Charles
Reid, Ezra Thompson ana ]. Frank
Judge. Judge L. z. Colburn. George
Y. Wallace, Mrs. Wallace and A NJ
Wrench were present and spoke In
favor Of the franchise. They called :he
councilmen's attention to the damage
that was done to the streets by the
heavy loaded wagons and said 1t was
in violation of the humane ordinances
to allow horses to pull wagons heavily
loaded over frozen streets.
OBJECTIONS EXPLAINED.
As none of the protestants were pres
ent Councilman Ferry explained some
of the objections that these mon had.
He declared that they contended that
81 would give the street railway o1m-
pany a monopoly on tho freight hauling
TO Fort Douglas. and that the COM
pany might discriminate against the
Rio Grando Western In handling
freight D. s. Spencer was present and
assured the counclimen that there
would be no discrimination against
anybody, He said that the street car
company would rather have a franchise
drawn so that the United States would
know what to expect from the company
and something on which to base O con-
tract with the company.
MATTER GOES OVER.
The Joint committees considered
briefly the petition Of the Salt Lake 8
Los Angeles Railroad company for a
franchise to lay trucks for an electric
line over certain streets to Main and
South Temple streets. Manager j, E,
l-anBiOrd ana President JO5epn Nelson
Of the Saltair Beach company were
present and stated that they were un-
able to get a proposition from tho
Utah Light and Railroad company for
the use OF Its tracks which was not
prohlbitlve in cost. They said that
they did not believe that they would
have any trouble In getting the prop
crty owners to allow them to place q
third track on North Temple street.
hc ri af
IN the matter which went over for an
ether week
EXTENSION TO BE BUILT.
The council adopted the committees
report recommending that the protests
be filed which were made against the
construction OF sewer extension No. 220
because there wero not enough to 1e-
feat 1t. Tho work on the extension Will
begin at once