Show The Best Plan Since the petition of the railway company com-pany asking that thr City Council take some steps looking to the closing of Fourth and Sixth Streets west of Wall several plans to effect the desired object have been proposed The railway companies I com-panies propose to build tracks for the accommodation of their business that Will reach for about a mile and one third north and south on the western part of the city andthis will pretty effectively block all travel between Tenth and First Streets the latter included in-cluded In other words there will be so many tracks crossing First Street and all others between that and Tenth Street that it will be dangerous and practicably impossible to use those streets for purposes of ordinary traffic The railways want Fourth Street and Sixth Street closed and it has been suggested sug-gested that their request be acceded to and the travel that now comes into Ogden from the west be thrown north to or slightly beyond First Street This plan includes the moving of the present pres-ent Weber bridge to a point further down the river and the bringiug of the travel from the west into the city from the north Still another project proposes to have the bridge where it is and making roads north to First and south to Eighth Streets and permitting the incoming in-coming travel to accommodate itself as to the route taken Another plan iso is-o build an archway over the tracks and not close Fourth Street In deciding upon this question which is certainly one of great importance abroad a-broad view should be taken The first plan mentioned would unsettle the pre sent condition of things to a great extent tent as would also the second while the last would involve the expenditure of a considerable amount of money by some one Some incline to the belief that the railways can get along with much less track room than they have mapped out but they should not be hampered in their operations by a want of room especially as Ogden expects To become a city of considerable importance import-ance It is hardly likely that the business busi-ness of the railways will require as many tracks as they seem to contemplate contem-plate for some tim ilto come but it would hardly be the proper thing to deprive them of room that they will imperatively need when the business ggins to develop The adoption of the second pIau would require the shorten big of the system of switches bynearly half a mile which the companies would very probably object to The adoption of either of the two firstnamed plans would very materially unsettle the pre sent business and would drive the trade of the town farther north if indeed it did not keep it entirely out of the city If it is made difficult to get into the city from theSwest as a verynatural result business here will be deprived of the trade that now comes from that direction and enterprises will spring up outside of the city to accommodate it a result which is notat ail to be desired As we said before a comprehensive view of all the interests involved should be taken and the final action be had on such grounds as will work the greatest good to the greatest number and brit the best results to the whole cityFrom From a cursory view of the situation we should decidedly favor the building of an archway over the tracks on Fourth Street still as the question has not been very elaborately canvassed some other plan may be superior Whatever is done the city and citizens want the depot here and should use every legitimate endeavor to secure it |