| Show SALT lAKES MAGNifiCENT f SRI ± TRA1LWAYSYSTEi 4 Au Important Factor In the Ciys ProsperiyEighty f five Miles of Track I Few people sop to think what a factor the atreot car Is in modern civil Izaton Nothing has done more t beat down tile walls of filthy crowded cities nothing has done much to nothlnJ so help the people to escape to the pure air the sunshine and the cleaner moral atmo phere of the suburbs By means of the electriccar the poor areenabled t ride over the city at a nominal cost and see a much as doe the man with a coach and tour the parks the resorts and social gatherings are brought within with-in reach of the most humble bv this mean The Salt Lake street car lines with their eightYfve miles of track carry the people up into the foothills or the mountains where they have spread out before them d magnificent panorama of mountain city lake and vale They carry them to all the parks all the al depots and far out into the suburbs on all sides In Salt Lake the car stop at any point In the block or on either side of a street crossing tO take on or put off a passenger I is doubtful If ca thIs is done in any other city In Amej A Profitable Yea The two systems or this city trans cty acted a heavy business during tHe year just close All thing considered it was the most profitable year In their history The heavy receipts went far to make up for the losses in the panic years that folowed 1893 The summe bus1neas of 1899 was great Dn mny occasions the carrying capacit of bth systems was taxed t the utmost limit far into the nIght to handle the crowds I that swarmed to the resorts and never I were theIr facilities for hauling big i crowds so good The Fourth of July Brigham Young day the conference wee the homecoming of the volunteers volun-teers and the visIt of William J Bryan were the events of the year that furnished fur-nished the best tests of the carrying ca pacity tems of our Salt Bake street car ss I Sal Lake City Ba way The present prosperity of the Salt Lake City Street Railway company f Indicated in the sale of Us bonds sae The were sold many of them in the est some years ago to secure mon for equipment and improvement Some of them sold a low as 93 Now the are in strong demand at 1050 her Jr Salt Lake which is good proof flat the home people have confidence in the future fu-ture of this enterprise The comp in the year jut closed built a double track line on South Temple Tem-ple from E street east to Thirteenth East This line was equipped with eight of the largest and finest vestibule cars ever seen In this region four summer sum-mer cars and four winter ira Thee last can be transfore into 9ummer cars These are twentylne fet long have rattan seats and hotedb ele trIcity and are uptodate In every way The company Is giving a eight minute service on this line and although there was much opposition to the building of the road at frs the South Temple line is now the most popular and profitable profit-able in the city The only other eterlon of the sear by this company w a double track on Main 0treet Suth from Eighth South to the Sat Palace and half way from Main to State on Ninth South Another improvement recently put on is the latest patent in sow sweepers i This is a revolving brush similar to the bet street sweepers It Is put on a I motor car and run over the whole ss tem when needed By this mean the company hopes this vlnter to minimize the snoW that have been so exasperating and disastrous to business in other years Another important step by this com pany was to put it steam plant on Second East street in perfect runninG order and there steam is being kept up so that should the water power fail temporarily from any cause steam power can be used in the emeren I and the carsould runa though nothing noth-Ing had happened The Salt Lake company expended over 2500 in Jmprovemenu during the ear just closed 11 now has forty five mIles of roa in active operation and in gcIad condition Rapid Transit System The Rapid Transit was delaYed in Its project to construct a line from Murray Mur-ray south to Sandy because of the tremendous adco In the prices of building material notably steel rails But this proposition 1 still under eon slderatlon by the company and will be takenup early in the coming spring Miide from this the Rapid Tit made no extensions during the year The hues already down itave bee improved im-proved however and although n cars were put ortjniS99 a number of the old cars were newly mounted and the rolling stock was pretty generally overhauled This system has thIrtysx miltsof road fi goopalr and reports the busInem of 1899 the most stsfac tnr fnr tars N N West Side CoIY The Wes Side Rapid Tansit com ay reports w goodyers business wit no extensions or improvements or note made during the year A to the work mapped out for the yea now nothing will be given out except as to the Sand extension by the Rapid Transit The tendency sees rather to Improve the lions nthv down amid furnish quicker service rather than to throw out new branches The Lake Breeze branch of the Sal Lake system was cut ot beyond the Jordan river in midsummer because the limited patronage did not justify its continuance The large blocks of this city so favorable in many waya operate oper-ate against the street car b sner making it necessary to parallel that Is run lines on almost every street in order to accommodate the people But those problems are solvIng themselves selves The temper of the street car corporations is such that the citizens of the entire city rest confident that the street car facilities 01 Salt Lalte wi fall behind in no particular but will I keep fully abreast of the advance mania on every other maer l line j |
