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Show ANOTHER ELECTRIC PROJECT PLANNED ..r.tl: .'' . . ' "ntT ' ,i r- The Deseret Newa Bays:-' . The builder of the first interurban electric, road la: Utah wil ; build' the second, according to the proceedings of a meeting hed at Provo yesterday In the Interest, of the project. Simon Bamberger, president or the-Salt-Lake & Ogden' raHw&yV'Vaich thts' summer electrified Jts . line - between this city and -Ogden, accompanied by H. A. Strauss, his electrical 1 construction expert from Chicago, taet,wlth a number num-ber of influential Utah. . county "men after a trip over the"1 proposed route for the electric line between' Salt Lake and Payon. The parties who made the trip ' found the proposed route feasible, and after hearing the report 'if 'wq";:declded to organize what will be.; Vnown as the Utah & Salt Lake Electric Railway, company. The capitalization will be $1,400,000, In shares of ..$100 each. The promoters promo-ters will mecf-ln Provo July 14 to Incorporate In-corporate and elect officers. The proposed line will be about 70 miles "Jong, and. "will pass through Sandy, Murray; Draper, Lehl, Amerl- can Fork, Pleasant Groe, Provo, Sprlngville, Spanish Fork and into Payson. Those who attended yesterday's yester-day's meeting were: Simon Bamberger, Bamber-ger, Stephen L. Chipraan, James H. Clark, Abel John Evans, John DeGray Dixon, Charles Hanks, D. R. Beebe, John H. Wooton,' J. S. McBeth, W. s! Chipman, W. L. Hayes, Albert E. Cooper, George W. Craig, W. T. Reynolds Rey-nolds and Oeorge C. Whltemore, and August Vogeler of Salt Iake. Senator Simon Bamberger said thla morning that It -looked like the proposition propo-sition would be. a success. "The people peo-ple of Utah county are enthusiastic over the project," said Senator Bamberger, Bam-berger, "and they are making every effort to bring it to fruition. An electric road between Salt Lake and Payson would be of great benefit to the rapidly growing section through which it would pass, besides to the people. oC Salt "Lake City." It looks like the road would be. 'a go.' ''. |