The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-01
Ordinance No.

TO Joseph 0. Proctor, Jr., his success
sors, lessees and assigns to operate a
street railway and power company In
the City Of Keokuk.
Be it ordained by the city council
OF the City of Keokuk:
Sec. 1. That the right, privilege
and franchise are hereby granted un-
to Joseph O, Proctor, Jr., his success
sors, lessees and assigns, Hereinafter
called the grantee) to lay down, con-
struct, acquire, equip, maintain and
operate street railways, with single
or double tracks, of standard railway
gauge, four feet, eight and one.half
inches wide, together with turnouts,
cross overs, side tracks and 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,
passenger. freight, baggage, express
and mail 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 or 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 now 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 SUBJ
miNed to and approval 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 D. m. and six
O'Clock a. M, provided, however that
the grantee may operate cars contain
ing material for the construction and
operation or 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 it 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 maS.l 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 lor 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 railway 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 eiec-
trical apparatus, appliances, poles,
ETC., used or erected in the streets of
said city as shall be reasonably nee
essary and proper.
Sec. 3, The tracks shall be laid so
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 a street
has not been brought to grade. said
grantee shall maintain and lay it's
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
at his 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
street along which said tracks shall
be laid, it shall be the duty of the
grantee at its own expense, to make
the tracks conform to such changed
grade.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the
said grantee to keep space of four
% feet on both sides of. the center
of any track laid on 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 it shall be the duty of the
grantee to pay for the paving or inn
provements of space of four (4)
feet on each side of the center of
any track laid on such street.
When the tracks cross any cutters
at the intersection of the street it
shall be the duty of the grantee to
bridge the gutter at the crossing and