Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-12
PROVO TO HAVE
UNION STATION
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City Council Grants Franchise to
Railroads to Erect Suit
able Building.
PEOPLE 70 VOTE ON QUESTION
Old Depot Structures Arc Dangerous
And Must be Icplaccd--old
Controversy is settled.

That Provo is 20 have 4 $4,000 union
informed parties from the Garden City
who have been trying to get u depot
worthy of the name for that city fos
the last saven years, Information
4 comes OF the granting of the franchise
for the building of the station of the
city council at Provo last night, by
a vote of to 3, which mems that
when the question of voting on the
matter OF authorizing the council 10
transfer the land selected for site of
the depot to the railroad companies
the work of constructing the new sta
ston viii be commenced
THE present passenger stations OF
both the Salt Lake Route and the Den.
yer & Rio Grande are Il disgrace to the
city, said II prominent Provoite this
morning, and the people hail With
delight the decision of the council In
granting the franchise for the con-
.strnction of the new depot. Both rail-
Soads will be interested III the station.
Ind the officials of both, as far as 1
can understand, are anxious to get into.
new quarters.
. CROSSINGS DANGEROUS.
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TO get to either station at present is
q dangerous undertaking. A young lady
recently died from injuries received
while accompanying a crowd OF stu
dents who crowded the tracks to meet
one of the incoming trains. They had
TO cross three freight tracks before
reaching the passenger. station, and in
the crowd, upon the approach of an
engine on one Of these tracks. the
young lady WAS struck by the engine.
and died from the effects of the Injury
shortly afterwa1d
The new depot will be built at the
foot of Third West street three blocks
west of the present location of the Den
yer & Rio Grande station. The city
will vacate the south half OF two entire
blocks for the station and yard, and
the railroad companies will put in a
street on the north side OF the buildings
wider than the one closed by the city
grant. The citizens Of Provo will vel
come with joy the decision of the peo-
pie on this matter which will be made
on July 81, the day the matter will De
put to a vote.
There are two general provisions
in the franchise ordinance. The first
provision grants the Denver & Rio
sGrande Western Railroad company
franchise and right of way for double
tracks along Sixth South street and
also crossing a numiber4ofsother streets
substantially on the route OF the pres
ent main line, also tho right to con-
struct the necessary side and switch
X tracks, and cross-oyers between the
Il second main line and the existing
i9trac Bs.9 S3e
The second proVision vacates Sixth
South street between Second West
and Fourth WeSt streets, including the
intersecting part of Third West street;
\ u small strip of ground lying south
of Sixth South street and between
the two present depot sites, and which
was formerly the cause of considerable
litigation between the two railroad
companies; also piece, 49.5 by 2S.75
feet, on the east side eff Academy
avenue. a resolution sets forth that
iii the judgment of the city council.
the present passenger and freight
depot OF the ID. & r.. G.. at Provo City
is inadequate for the wants and nee
essities of the people. and that the
immediate approaches and streets
thereto are dangerous to life and
property; and that the railroad COM
pany should be encouraged TO erect
and maintain a passenger depot and
freight depot with the necessary APP
proaches. accommodations, etc. For
these reasons, u franchise is granted
subject to a favorable vote of the quail
fled electors OF the city, to the rail
road company to build q passenger de-
pot at the intersection of Third West
and Sixth South streets, and a freight
depot on the east side of Academy ave
nue., at the intersection of Sixth South