The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-28

TWO ROUTES ARE
BEING CONSIDERED
Project VIII Give Transpor.
tation From Any Part
of Salt Lake to
Brigham City.

for two proposed routes, and the Utah
Light & Railway company will spend at
least Sl,500,000 to connect Salt Lake
and Ogden with an interurbau line, to
be an extension of the present line run
ming TO Centcrville. Only five miles of
the line will be finished this year-the
extension from Centervilc TO Farming
ton-but in next years budget money
for the entire road will be included and
Salt Lake and Ogden viii be connected
with another intcrurbar line during
1915, making four railroads between
the two cities.
This announcement was made yester-
day by Fred ii. Kniclaerbocker, assist
ant to the vice president and general
manager Of the Oregon Short Line
| (Which OWNS the Utah Light & Rail
way company, and secretary Of the
Utah Light 6 Railway company. Mr..
knickerbocker says that the matter of
extending the line through TO Ogden
after the Pennington extension was
completed has been under consideration
for several months. Until few days
ago, however, nothing definite was
known, even about the extension to
Pennington, because of fear that the
Pennington city council might not grant
the franchise wanted Now, however,
it is understood that the council will
grant the franchise, a copy Of which
| Will be presented to that body for con-
sideration within a brief time.
Favored Route.
Two routes to Ogden are designated
In the tentative plans which have been
drawn up by l.. l.. Dagron, chief en-
gineer of the Utah Light & Railway
company. The one which the railroad
officials feel will be the favored one
! almost parallels the Bamberger line on
the cast side, crossing it at Farming
| ton, but recrossing again at kaysville
and proceeding directly North into Og-
den. This route would pass through
the town of Riverdale, south of Ogden,
as we'll as all the towns reached by the
Bamberger line, and it is claimed it
Bamberger limo In being higher up on
the bench all the way and as result
| would take the business to the east
| away from the Salt Lake & Ogden.
The line paralleling the Bamberger
would be about thirty-six miles long.
approximately the same distance as that
covered by the Bamberger, the Oregon
Short Line and the Denver & Rio
irande. The other proposed line will
hn ,roh h l>,, 4
will reach the towns of Syracuse,
Hooper and Roy, none of which have
railroad at present, being located
nearer the lake,
Another Line.
In the event that it is decided to
construct the longer route, the road
viii be run north out Of Pennington,
through Kaysville and Layton, then
will cross the Bamberger, the Short Line
and the Rio Grande in q general west
Hooper and Roy and into Ogden from
the southwest. During the last month
many petitions have been received at
the Utah Light & Railway general Of
fices from prominent citizens Of Hooper
and Roy. asking that their towns be
pierced in the event there was a deci-
sion to build through to Ogden
Iolu oIdlcHsuiS ulduc ON OIllC)aIS
the traction company, it appears that
the chances of Syracuse, Hooper and
Roy securing the right of way nre
slight, owing to the lack OF recent de.
velopment in that section. They say
that they have paid particular atten-
tion to that vicinity and conclude that
there is not enough activity there to war
rant the added cost in building a longer
line, while the territory on the bench to
the cast of where the other line would
go is considered to be growing rapidly.
1t is thought that the construction
Of an electric Interurban by the Utah
Light to Ogden, paralleling the Salt
Lake & Ogden. will mean fight be.
tween the street railway company and
the Bamberger interests, and that the
effect will be a lowering of the rate
between Salt Lake and Ogden. The
present fare to Ogden, either by the
Bamberger OF the Oregon Short Line, is |
about 81 for single way, The fare
for the thirteen miles from Salt Lake
to Ccnterville, on the Utah Light &
Railway company, is only little more
than ~ cents mile. and it is stated
this rate will not be increased for the
added trip to Huntington. While the
rate may be increased another quarter
Of cent on the mile for the entire
trip to Ogden, it is thought that it |
will not be more than ] ~ cents mile, |