Show VOTE FAVORS FRANCHISE TO RUN FIFTY YEARS IN ALL Council Committee Takes Compromise Action on Utah Ut h Light and Railway Request Company Becomes Still More Humble as Citizens Arouse and Promises to Reduce Rates New Ordinance Will Vilt be Drafted by Assistant City Attorney t H 44 t H M H t t t t Mf t t MM t t f t it t 4 4 i ia a 4 UlEN BY THE TH COUNCIL 4 4 4 Here i 1 what a majority of the members of the IIi t council i n 1 T tas laws as and special ial water committee proposes plO to Utah LIcht x 4 4 Railway Hailway company 4 A consolidation of its several lighting and anti street railway ay ranch franchi f is 4 the consolidated franchise to begin Jan Jaum 1 and expire Jan 1 1 The council jI is to have bae the right to regulate street stet railway ranay fares fanti ai at aito atto a t I 4 to designate te where the 11 poles of or the street str t railway lines flues shall b sn st snits Pt 4 its wires wire in strung etc 4 Before railway tracks tra ks can ean be laid on streets not now occupied l by y tl ii tho 4 company permission un must be obtained d from the council and the o m of a majority of t the frontage on the streets must consent eDt con In writing 4 Rates nat for fur lighting must at all aU times time be rea 4 4 The rhe council to have halie the right to designate the ine streets neta eta to b be 1 4 by the wires and conduits duIts of the lighting system tem stein 4 4 BY THE COMPANY 4 What the Utah t tah Light Railway company offers to t the cit city in ill ii 4 return for a fifty years consolidated e Title to water w tet right along Big Cottonwood creek reek together with 1 b lua n 11 I 1 4 owned by he the company pan on un both sides of or the creek ice for wJ IrIa It cla lI i ihas Ihas 4 has a cash proposition of 1801 4 To ro continue giving Salt Lake i worth of light and ad power i 4 4 year during durl the year yea 4 4 To Fro continue paying 2 25 d per car ear on each of its cars carsTo ea 4 To cut rut the price of electric lighting from Ie O cent cents the price it is i 1 authorized by the lighting U franchises franchi es under which It is charge to 11 1 1 cents per kilowatt kilo watt to those e who do not DOt pay th li m i i 4 4 bills bUls promptly and to 1 i per kilowatt to 10 those tho who pay py within t tI 4 time In which 1 IP per cent reduction is allowed The shortest franchise under which the company Is operating has ha 4 years yeats to run and the longest franchise 42 years y ars to ran run so IO that the th j i 1 4 4 posed consolidated franchise will give an average extension of 10 18 tai t 4 4 of the various franchises s 4 II 3 3 4 e A T r a joint meeting of the council A Pt municipal laws and special water waler committee in jim the thc council chamber yesterday afternoon it was unanimous unanimously ly Jy decided dC to refuse to grant the peti petition petition tion of the th Utah Light lie Railway corn com company I pany IJ UI for a fitly lifty years extension extEn of its franchises It was aN then decided by a ote vote of If f four fur to two to lo grant gramit the corn com I pany request for a consolidation lUon of its it various lighting and street railway ra and to make the an arm otter offer ocr r to give ghe it a consolidated franchise for fifty lifty e to begin betin Jan JaIL 1 amid HM end Jan 1 Those who voted to tu make this offer I to the t Utah Light L hl Railway Hailway company are C Fernstrom F Yells and an Dean ne n Those who vot d I Iain against ain gaIu making makh the offer are Council men A J 1 1 Davis De vis and ami Hobday Mobility President Jn I J Prank Pra J Hewlett tt who ho is a member of I the pe ial Water ter w committee was w at atI I I meeting meet big illg but b t declined d d to h vote 0 Coun J RIek was ateo alFo there but a as ama h his h hii e eis is ii nut not a member of either committee he h hOuld could not vote ot When Whelm it was decided de tt to give he the corn com company pany pan a fifty years etUs consolidated fran franchise chise hise Assistant City Attorney W JT it Bramel was as instructed to draw dl u up un an ordinance erdina containing biting several features deemed 1 essential Ia I and not contained cent a limed d in inthe inthe the th draft dt of or an UI extension ordinance submitted by b the tb company Company Makes Promises At tl another of the th two l o commit I tees tee held d in the t ht he council chamber bamer t at atI I I night ni bl Judge Jud e I Lu Jt Grand Gran l Young You for th the I v mi any accepted the proposition J tion of Df the majority of or the committee Ommittee and a I omit that tb t th the company would ovid s v the city a deed dd l to the t Bl bUg Big r Cottonwood G canyon right ri ht and a large la tract trae I I I of f land a Ions ton H Hi ST CoU creek I would its it lighting Un charge ha to te toj toI teI I j 11 ii cents per kilowatt or 10 cents net nel er kilowatt to 0 those who ho hopay pay their li lightIng bills bUis promptly and aM would wo ld continue giving the city rity light and power worth wOIth petS pet year and an ana paying a t 2 2 per ear car license Oft on all aU its it street cars eaiS alS At the Ih afternoon session ion of the corn com committee A City Attorney Attorn Bramel was present with a great deel dl of mem mern memoranda oranda tida showing provisions t the of street treet railway and lighting ordinances previously cushy o y granted by hy the council to the th predecessors of the th Utah Limit l t Rail Railway RailI ul I way wa company He lie had figured out that the tM shortest of these franchises fra h bad badI x and amid the longest I years ears to run Discussion in Committee J Assistant City Recorder Hartley started st reading the draft of the exten extension sion ordinance submitted by hy the com ourn company pany puny and amid when hen he lie gut get to t section 3 3 in which it was provided that the com coin company pany J ny should be given an extension of I fifty tiny years ea from Jan 1 1 1304 1 Council Councilman I man Fernstrom remarked that that was waa the meat of the whole boIe thing tb Councilman A J Davis a aid id ld Yes Tea right and I move m e that we e reject that section That would be rejecting rde ti the whole ordinance said Councilman Fern f st just ju t what J I want to do tk re me replied plied Councilman Davis I r am eta not DOt In favor fa or of or extending the fran franchises chi tS ten teu minutes Then ensued a long Ion discussion in which the various members rs of the joint committee except Councilman Wells Veils participated Councilman Fernstrom insisting that the meeting ought to I take some soune action looking toward inward giving the company compan an extension While the I discussion was as in progress Councilman Wells Veils came in and the situation was explained to ta mm lim Councilman Fernstrom said toe be had information to the effect that the com corn company company pany patty would accept a consolidated fran franchise chise chis for fifty years and would give the city the Big Cottonwood canyon water right and reduce the cost of electric l to 11 Ii cents per kilowatt which would make the price 10 cents net to those who paid their t bills before the th of each month He gave It as his opinion that the offer o er of the com corn company company pany was a fair one and should be ac se accepted accepted Minor Provisions Made After r further furth r discussion it was wasa agreed a eed that the city should boWd have the tight right ri ht to regulate street railway fares fa that th the council and the property own owners owners ers era should have ve the right to grant or ordeny ordeny deny d ny the privilege PI to build and operate of railway tracks on streets str ts or parts of streets not now how Il occupied by tracks that th the council should have havethe havethe the rigin rigil t t to to designate where wIlen po If i s should be set t aid ud wit and conduits constructed d and amid that there thIC should be bf no tie provision hi the tIle rop j ed d F to prevent the par paralleling aran of if r of or f th the cv n and amid all also alo that the th dl for lighting should bv Ix tea ica a It it u t a T nines i i ui UP III in in II Wells 11 when th se triaL mal had been agreed to b by t 1 members of the committee commit tee Councilman A J Davis offered thou Hon that in consideration of th time thing thing ing tag of or the Big Cot Cottonwood ton wood I ater water right and reduction in jim li Ii i charge and the th continuance t of Jf if ib t ml h of light l bt and power to tl LI l I h Ii htoy toy lay rb the Utah Light LI ht Ie pany the committee ommittee offer off r it a ada I da dation tion of its I franchises and m franchise hi beginning Jan Jail 1 l I lending ending Jan 1 1953 l Hobday Substitute Is Lost Councilman Hobday offered i 1 substitute that all an the r fr be bt ht t up to fort for t years eans the time the longest till out 1 I 1 run nan The motion mod nm made dt was adopted by the vote e I 1 after the Jd had rie riet ri t i 1 com 1 Pi for fo a fifty illy I y extension Before adjourning the i meeting City Attorney W II il H lIr was instructed tu to draw u Ii H nance rance giving the company a ti fifty ft Y le l lease xe of life lif and embodying the th i ll a enumerated and such others othEr oth rs might deem necessary to t interests inter |