Show KraichUcs Asked For I At the meeting of the city council on February 2 Sl certain parties were refuse a frachiso for a street railway over certain streets and avenues including Wall ave nno The street committee expressed what at that time appeared to be thesensoof the council tl ntDo franchises for a street railway rail-way be granted to any one to lay street i railway tracks 01 Wait avenue At the councils lust Illedtia on the 2Sth of February the com nit eo on laws presented pre-sented an ordinnso Min lcrn lit lly 10 a resolution granting certain rights and prh ileges 1st die Ogden City lttuwatrompany extruding their rights 10 Tw utyseeend street to bloCk thtmcc on Liuoin to rentfoiJrth thence down < Twenty fOU1l1l one uloI tv SVtll avenue thence along ttill avtnuo 10 the present western terminus at the lootof Twenty fifth street opposite th < union passenger sutioa This ordinance was mid and i as ed < to a second reading and will l com up ou its Ihuil l passage pass-age next Friday night i It was suited that tho street railway eo up tnv naked for the graat of tin streets i loIr on this paoiojlrtrlm l ttli m order that I they might complete thc teircultbu no member of the cuullell showed any hecessity for it for the reason thin uentscxitis s The present pres-ent franchise of tile Oaieu Street nailwI company permits them to lay a double track ind if they desire to CIDnrICO the section of tho city south of Twenty second street to Twentyfifth and west Lincoln tluiy hale only to lay amtser track ou Twenty fifth street from the fret of that street to Lincoln a cnui The eats start irfiioout oil that track would go front the terminus to Lincoln along Lincoln to Tucnty second and up ftivnty second to Washington there connecting ivitu the mainline or crossing it go up Twenty second street to the bench and thence to a connection with the line on lelJt kiln street atuny point that the company might desire Wall avenue is not needed to complete com-plete acircuij as anyone can understand who will examine into tbomatter Alderman Preshaw and probably son other members of the council were somewhat some-what astonished at the introduction of their ordinance in View ot the action taken at the former meeting only a week before He asked how the Pacific Short Lino or other railroads desiring to come Into tho citv from tho east could oct in untie a rta ± 1 used Wall street No one was in a position I I to answer the question satisfactorily The Pacific Short Line will come in through Weber canon aud it will not want to stop at tho south end of the city It will want to come through to terminal grounds in the northwest part of the city and connection with the Central Paciiic This can only be done by tho use of Wall avenue or some other avenue cast of that for tho Union Pacific owns and controls con-trols all the land south and west of Wall which is covered by the tracks of that company Tho company would not be likely to permit any rival railroad to come into the city over its tracks and throuch its yard A part of the agreement of the Pacific Short Lino with Ogden city is that any other railroad may use its tracks to get into this city If Wall aveuuois saved for that company in a few years it will housed ho-used by other companies who are intending to build to Ogden Wall avenue ought not to be disposed of to the street railway company or any other railroad company until the necessity for its ue in getting into and passing through the city is shown |