Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1890-03-21 | Page 8 | The Rapid Transit Co

TH RAPID TRANSIT CO Two Hundred Tons of Halls Ordered Work to be Pushed at Once The street railway franchises are fat takes The men who know of the gigantic syndicates that swallow up the legislative bodies of great cities to get at the streets hanker that way I this city D man can help himself i he has a pull on the powers that be In fact a man is thanked and applauded for accepting the worthless gft The men that are brim full of street railway enterprises arc looking into the future and can sec the franchises that now go free gratis looming loom-ing up Into the bright hundred thousand dollar beyond The franchises that were not worth operating In the past are as rapidly appreciating in value as electricity is distancing the bygone mule The Rapid Transit company is not going to let the Salt Lake company have it all Its own way but will poach in the franchise preserves on its own account account The Rapid Transit comnany have already ordered200 tons of 35lb rails and will rush the wires on West Temple Fourth and Seventh South and Seventh Weal They are also booked for the Hot springs over Capitol hill and back over Taint West The officers of the company arc L S Hills president J Cameron vice president urer and J T Little secretary and treas