The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-26

Provo, Utah. July "A, 19O9.-Nr. George
Havercamp. Provo City.-Dear Shiny
attention has been called to your letter in
tOday's Provo Herald. You are the first
person to give the real and true reason
for opposing the franchise, viz, that of
property rights In this regrettable con
trOVersy the true reason has been kept
out OF sight for the very good reason
that the people would not support cause
with only selfishness behind it. Other
reasons, seemingly more attractive, have
been assigned. not one of which had the
slightest merit, and only used to confuse
ana mlslead the people 1 quite agree
with you that the excitement incident
20 the matter is wholly unnecessary
Selfishness should be eliminated, as /
DeileVe 1t viii be, and the way opened
Tor the railroads to make these contem-
plated improvements. There IS no attack
being made on the property rights of
yourself or any one else. Get that notion
out OF your head and help Provo with
your influence and by your vote to have
this depot
Your speculation as to what will hap
pen in the future is entirely wrong. There
IS positively nothing in it.
You are also informed there was no
compact entered into between Mr.. Ban
croft and Mr.. Young. Nothing of the
kind was ever thought of After Mr.
Young became identified with the d. &
X. G. he was not interested in the Ore
gOn Short Line securing a better entrance
into Provo. He was never caught in the
act of strewing flowers along our path,
but was caught a good many times drop
ping q thorn here and there where it
would do the most damage. So I tell YOU
when you state that a contract was en-
tered into BY the gentlemen mentioned
above, and that the same is still in effect,
and which IS really the vital point in
this controversy, you was never more
mistaken in the world. There is absO-
lutely nothing in it.
The two main lines of the railroads oc-
cupy Sixth South street from Academy
avenue to Sixth West. It would be i'm
possible for them to erect union station
at any point between those streets men
TONED without occupying a part of the
street. If the franchise is defeated, it
means, If 1t means anything, that the
people Will not give up any part of the
streets for depot purposes. Then, since
the tracks are in the street and private
property cannot be reached without con-
cessions asked for. I do not understand
why you doubt the statement of the rail-
way officials when they say if the fran
chise is defeated it will be impossible to
build depot. 1t is not threat but the
plain truth.
It is strictly ND to the peonIe to say
whether present conditions shall con-
tinUe or whether Provo shall have a fine
passenger station, and you are one of
the men who should support the fran
GEORGE W. CRAIG.
Provo Utah, July "A, bod George
II. Brimhall, Provo, Utah--My Dear Doc
tori have been interested in reading
your thirteen reasons and the replies
thereto.
As there will be no other issue of the
Provo papers. / am sending this commu-
nicatiOn direct with the hope of being able
to clear up some of the question of which
you seem to be in doubt
Cd Why should we make our best street
freight delivery street2 Because the
railroads want US to do it."
The railroads have made no such re-
quest and are not interested as to what
class Of traffic shall or shall not use the
streets. That matter is regulated by the
city council When the citizens petitiOned