Show CONTRACT CO A CT FINAllY SIGNED SIGN ED Utah light Railway Company Will Furnish Power for Ogden Rapid Transit Lines After Atter negotiations that had been car ear earned carried vied ned on for many years the Utah Light Railway company yesterday agreed up upon upon upon on terms and signed a contract to fur furnish furnish furnick nish nick the power for the Ogden Rapid Transit lines for a period of ot seven years commencing with the first of the year The agreement was reached hero here yesterday after a conference be between between between tween General Manager lanager R S Campbell Chief Engineer O 0 A Honald Commer Commercial cial Engineer B W Mendenhall and Commercial Agent E W TV Wade of the Utah Light Railway company and David Eccles representing the Ogden Rapid Transit company v At different times during the last year or two these people have haYe met and were upon the point of agreeing to terms when some hitch would come up and result in the calling off of the negotiations Lately the question of rates was the whole point of contention but this was overcome yesterday when the light peo people people pIe virtually met the tho terms of the street railway company This agreement will mean the aban abandoning abandoning abandoning of the Washington avenue power powerhouse powerhouse powerhouse house For a long time this has been Inadequate to the demand for power to operate the lines of the transit company and when w en the canyon line was opened up I during the summer the demand was all alt the th greater necessitating the working of the plant beyond its capacity Break Breakdowns Breakdowns i downs and blockades resulting from front the thc lack of power have been numerous The intention of the company com pan to electrify the tho Ogden Northwestern system to the Og Ogden Ogden den Hot Springs in connection with the I construction of the new smelter made the necessity for additional power all the greater and und was primarily the cause for fot forthe forthe the reopening of the t e negotiations I While the power house of the Rapid Transit company will be abandoned in insofar insofar Insofar as the production of power is con concerned concerned corned It will be retained as a trans transforming transforming transforming forming station in which will win be e located the transformers to change the current from alternating to direct The establishing lishing li hinS of these transformers will occupy I some time so that the contract signed yesterday will probably not go into ef effect effect feet until the first of the year Representatives of the Ogden Rapid Transit company met with two of th county commissioners at the tho mouth of Ogden canyon canon yesterday and discussed plans for the transit people building through the canyon also as to what t concessions conc they might expect from the county in such an event It is understood that the transit peo pip pie will make application to the com corn commissioners commissioners missioners In about two weeks for a franchise covering the rights to construct constructs such s h a line In connection with the elec electrifying electrifying electrifying of the Ogden Northwestern line pans plans are under consideration for or the extension of that road through to Brig Bris Brigham Brigham ham City at an early date The con contract contract contract tract signed with the Utah Light Rail Railway RAilway Railway way company was as made with these two extensions in view |