Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-11-02 | Page 8 | Life of Franchises

LIFE OF FRANCHISES- Publicity Bureau Believes That Twenty-five Twenty-five Years la Lono Enough. SpfcJal to Tlit Trlhune. OCrDLCN. Nov. 1. Following the reading read-ing of a letter In which a person atylln." himself "Guy Ncodham" declared apalnft llfly-yoaf franchises for corpor.itlons In Ogden city, tho board of diroi'tors of th ORdcn publicity bureau last nlKht adopted adopt-ed a re:io!utloii concurrlnjr hi the nonti-mcnt nonti-mcnt of the writer. Manager O. J. .Stll-wcll .Stll-wcll Etates that the bureau director were unanimous In the opinion that twenty-llvo yearn should be the life of any frauehlFf! . J granted by u municipal povcmmeni. na iiht- city offlclalB Iihvo no right to obll-gate obll-gate future venerations. In the letter read by Manager Stllwell the writer declared that the L'tah Iipht) Railway company was charclnK too) much for pas and electricity and that (ho Ogden Uapld Transit company was I leaving the atrcets iti bad condlllon af- 1 ter having free use of (hem for lt.s tracks. The letter and the subsequent action of thc bureau directors resulted from the-application the-application of the Utah LIrIU .t Railway company for an extension on Its present franchise.