Show THE WESTERN GETS IT Franchise Granted Last Night by the Provo City Council Provo March 15At a meeting of the city council this evening W D Alexander presented the report of the committee on railroads and telegraph relative to granting the franchise asked for by the Rio Grande Western railway rail-way All that is prayed for in the petition pe-tition of the company named is granted grant-ed with the exception of giving away a small triangular piece of land at the bottom of J street This piece is however turned over to the use of the Western on which they are given the right to lay tracks and make improvements im-provements All that was asked as to rights along First street for sidetracks side-tracks and as far as M street for land on which to erect a roundhouse and stock yards was granted A right of way is granted through the city along the middle of H street with a privilege of putting in sidetracks at the woollen mills and other manufacturing companies com-panies establishments along the millrace mill-race There was some discussion as to the time to be allowed the company in which to begin work and the amount to be accomplished which culminated with the following results The Rio Grande Western will be required re-quired to begin work on their buildings build-ings and tracks within six months and build 20 miles of road within two years Everything was done with perfect per-fect harmony there being no dissenting dissent-ing voice and the report was adopted unanimously A large number of citizens were present who watched with great interest in-terest the actions of the city fathers and they expressed entire satisfaction over the result All that will be required re-quired now in order to complete the work of the council in this matter will be the drafting of an ordinance granting the franchise in accordance with the report which the city attorney attor-ney was instructed to do with the assistance as-sistance of the committee on railroads and telegraph with President Farrer of the council added A right along First street for joint tracks was granted the Oregon Short Line in accordance with an agreement between the two companies but no action was taken in reference to any rights of the Oregon Short Line on H street |