Show EXTENSION WORK VORK IS STOPPED RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY PAYS PAYSOFF PAYSOFF PAYSOFF OFF ITS MEN Right of Way the Obstacle That Pre Prevents Prevents Prevents vents Construction Work From Being Rushed to Completion I I I I I I Great hopes on the part of oC both Og aS Ogden aSden den and nn Huntsville and in fact tho the inhabitants of all Weber county were entertained In the prospective build building buildIng buildIng ing of or the thc extension of the ne Rapid Transit railway through Ogden Ogdon O can canyon you yon It lt has hen beon very cry plain to al alL that the completion of that little litHe lit hit bitof litof of road would mean much to ti the de do development of the country countr from both bolh ways The work of extending tho tim road has been pr as vigorously ai as pos possible possible sible during luring the lie winter months and andt It t has lias been the intention of QC the tho com coin company company pany to more vigorous push puah pu 11 the Building an as soon as tho the weather would permit Fifty mIl men have been at al work during tho the hat bad j and mid arrange arrangements arrangements ments were to tl double tho force as soon as as S tho the frost left il the ground so asto ag a to enable la k tho to todo todo todo do the grading work While the coin corna a y secured secured a 11 right of or over 01 tho ho entire In tin ills dis distance tance tanca of the roadbed adbel r between Ogden and lunts they fh had secured enough to in beginning building budding operations They Ther felt as assured assured assured that there ther would he be no trouble In n securing the tho right light of cir way w r through to o Huntsville whenever when ver er they tho were ready rca to build over ocr the promises of or parties artles who hind had not yet et given a right of way wn But in arranging for further work as the tho spring approaches the thol found that thal some of ni tho the parties artie own ownIng owning Ing ng property over ocr which the road would necessarily l havo hao to pass wanted ex cx exorbitant prices for COI the right of If way such prices as the company does doos not care to pay par hence the further con construction construction construction of the road has been called off oft Engineer Joseph West stated last evening that the workmen worl nien had haJ all been cen paid off of and nn tho work suspended er for tor tho the present and that the tho suspension slon sion of operations likely lIke would be for forin foran an in indefinite In length of time unless reasonable concession for the right of or way should be made ma by property own owners owners owners ers along the survey suno of f the road r If this road Is not built through the tho canyon canon this year rear It will he be a great greal loss loas losso to o the people The Tile farmers of or the upper valley aey will be deprived of trans tram transportation facilities much desired the sugar beet acreage in the upper val valey valhey al aley hey ey will be antI and when the tho visitors of the Grand Army of ot the come conic here hero this sum summer mel mer there will not be he adequate trans tram transportation facilities to carry carr them hem through tile the beautiful Ogden canyon to o the picturesque valley above The construction work worle of the tho road was vaz well velI wellin wollIn in hand when the lie blanket banket of curtail curtailment curtailment ment was thrown over It by b virtue of or orthe the vexed question of or right of way war |