Salt Lake Herald | 1890-12-10 | Page 5 | Car Line to Fort Douglas

Car line ti Fort Douglas During the past two weeks the Salt Lake street car company has been quietly at work building a car line from their present eastern terminus to Fort Douglas The work has been pushed so rapidly that the grading has been nearly completed and the track has been laid with the exception of four blocks which will connect the road i with the line now in operation The new track is two miles long and when completed cars will run from the Rio Grande Western depot crossing Main street on Second South and continuing eastward to the Salt I Lake brewery thenco to Mount Olivet cemetery from which the line goes on a direct route to the fort the terminus being between the quartermasters office and the church Wire and other line material are on the road and the company expects to have cars running to the fort by Christmas Mr Reed when asked yesterday whether this would complete the building of now lines this fall replied that ho was unable to state The had decided company decded some weeks ego to stop building for the season but circumstances had forced them to continue con-tinue and he knew not where it would end