The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-10
ORDINANCE NO. 1872,

ORDINANCE NO. 1872.
An ordinance granting permission
/ to Joseph o. Proctor, Jr his success
sors. iessees 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 granteel to lay down, con-
struct, acquire, equip, maintain and
i operate street railways, with single
or double tracks, of standard railway
gauge, four feet eight and onehalf
inches wide, together with turnouts,
7. 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,
J for the period of twenty-five years
from and after August /, 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 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 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 sub
i mitted to and approved by the city
] council. Freight cars shall be operat-
led 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 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 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
onerating of said electric street rail
way
Sec. 2. All the poles, apparatus and
appliances used by said grantee In
the construction and operation of Its
street railyaw shall be located under
the direction of the city engineer OF
other proper official of the City Of
Keokuk. Said city reserves the right
at any time to direct such changes tc
he made In the location of all cleo
trical apparatus, appliances, poles
etc. used or erected in the streets OF
,aid 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 anv street In which the road may
he built, where the city has brough
said street to grade. Where stree
has not been brought to grade. sait
grantee shall maintain and lay it,
tracks on the surface grade. and shall
properly ballast same with macadam
gravel cinders or other suitable ma
terial, provided that whenever the cit'
shall bring said street to the grad'
established by law, the grantee shall
at It's own expense, raise or lower tn
tracks SO as to conform to the estab
lished grade: provided also. that If tn
city shall at any time change an.
temporary or permanent grade OF an,
street along which said tracks shai
be laid. It shall be the duty of tn
grantee at its own expense, to max
the tracks conform to such changes
grade : -,
4 Sec. A. 1t shall be the duty OF tn
said grantee to keep a space OF fou