The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-17
ORDINANCE NO. $50.

street railway and power company ii
the City Of keosuk-
Be il ordained By the city council
I, of the City OF Keokuk.
Sec. i. That the right privilege
and franchise are hereby granted IN
TO Joseph o. Proctor. Jr-. his success
sors, lessees and assigns, Hereinafter
called the granted TO lay down, con
struct. acquire. equip. maintain and
operate street railways. with single
or aoahie tracks. OF standard railway
gauge, four feet eight and one-hait
inches wide, together with turnouts,
cross overs, side tracks snd switches
on all the streets. alleys and public
places, except as hereinafter pro-
vided. within the present and any
future limits OF the City of Keokuk.
for the period Of twenty-five years
from and after August 1, 1911, for the
/ purpose OF conveying and transporting
! thereon by means Of electric power,
or any other power except steam.
I passenger, freight. baggage, express
and mall cars or any of them, to be
used in the carriage OF passengers.
property and United States mail.
whether such cars belong to the gran
tee TO be delivered TO the grantee By
or for any connecting carrier TO be
transported within the limits OF the
City OF Keokuk. No tracks shall be
laid upon Grand Avenue Except
those low operated by the Keokuk
Electric Railway and Power company
or upon Belknap Boulevard. Orleans
street, or any street hereinafter laid
out which the city council shall es-
pecially exempt at the time Of laying
out, except for the purpose OF cross
ing the above streets and before any
track shall be laid In any public
park the plans for location and con-
struction OF the same shall be sub
mitted TO and approved by the city
council. Freight cars shall be operat-
ed over any of the grantees tracks
laid upon improved streets only be-
tween the hours Of ten p. m and six
O'Clock a. M, provided. however. that
the grantee may operate cars contain
ing material for the construction and
operation Of the street railway sys-
tenn aforesaid at other hours, subject
to regulation by the city council, and
the city council may by ordinance
provide for the temporary operation
of freight cars at other hours under
such conditions as 1t may prescribe
To enable the grantee to deliver or
receive freight cars to or from any
factory, warehouse or other industry
located adjoining the tracks of the
grantee. said grantee shall have the
right to construct, maintain and oper-
ate switch from the main track to
or into or alongside such factory,
warehouse or other industry. There
is further granted to said grantee the
right to erect and maintain poles in
the streets, alleys and public places
OF the City of Keokuk, and to string
and maintain wires thereupon for the
operating of said electric street rail-
way.
Sec. 2. All the poles, apparatus and
appliances used by said grantee in
the construction and operation Of It's
street railyaw shall be located under
the direction Of the city engineer or
other proper official of the City of
keokuk. Said city reserves the right
at any time to direct such changes to
be made in the location of all cleo
trical apparatus, appliances, poles,
etc. used or erected In the streets of
said city as shall be reasonably ne
cessary and proper
Sec. 3. The tracks shall be laid Sc
as to conform to the established grade
on any street in which the road may
be built, where the city has brought
said street to grade. Where street
! has not been brought to grade, said
| grantee shall maintain and lay its
tracks on the surface grade, and shall
/ properly ballast same with macadam.
gravel, cinders or other suitable ma
terial, provided that whenever the city
shall bring said street to the grade
established by law, the grantee shall
at Its own expense, raise or lower the
tracks SO as to conform to the estab-
lished grade; provided also, that If the
city shall at any time change any
temporary or permanent grade of any
i street along which said tracks shall
be laid, 1t shall be the duty OF the
grantee at its own expense, to make
the tracks conform to such changed
Il grade.
Sec. T. 1t shall be the duty of the
said grantee to keep a space OF four
\ (4 feet on both rides of the center
Of any track laid on a paved or mac
adamized street. in as good condition
as the balance of the roadway is main
tanned by the city. Whenever any
street upon which the tracks of the
grantee are laid is paved or improved
by the city 1t shall be the duty OF the
grantee to pay for the paving or i'm
provements Of space Of four az
feet on each side OF the center of
any track laid on such street.
When ths tracks cross any cutters
at the intersection OF the streets 1t
shall be the duty of the grantee to
bridge the gutter at the crossing and
keep the same in repair.