Show I SANDY TO GET LIGHTS AT LAST Salt Lake ake Company and Man Prom From Muray Ask sk for Frau Fran IMPROVEMENT UNDER WAY MAYOR AND COUNCIL HOLD SES SESSION SION AN AND D DISCUSS IT ITter After ter two years of attempt Sandy is isto isto to have electric lights in her streets and houses It is also possible that withIn a short time an extension of the city railway system will be made to Sandy At the present time there is up for consIderation by the city councIl of Sandy SandI two propositions for franchIses for lighting the cIty One comes from the Utah Light company compan and the other from Mr But Butler ler of Murray In informal session the councilmen and mayor met last night to discuss the two proposItions John Montgomery cry ery jr attended the meeting in the in interests interests of the Utah Light Railway company Mr Butler was not represented represented Definite action on the two franchises will be had at the regular meeting of the Sandy council Tuesday nIght It is more than probable say some of those on the Inside that the franchIse asked by the Utah Light Railway company will be granted and that Mr Butlers proposal will be turned down At a recent mass meeting of the citi citizens citizens zens of Sandy during which a commer commercIal commercial cIal club for the southern part of Salt Lake county was formed W P Reed of the railway depart zant nt of the Utah Light Railway company stated that it was the intention intention tion of the company to extend the lines of the company wIthin a short time to Sandy Acting on this hint the business men of Sandy bent all their efforts in an en endeavor endeavor deavor to have the extension made at once In compliance with hIs promise Mr Reed took the matter up with the companY company with the result that it has been definitely decided to make the ex cx extension tension at once Engineers are at work on the plans What the cost of the work will be has not as yet been deter determined determined mined Officers of the company stated yes yesterday yesterday that it was the intention to build somewhere in the southern part of the county a rela relay or step down station for the distribution of power to Bingham Junction Draper and Sandy The pole line running from Murray the present terminus to Sandy will be so constructed as to at af afford atford ford the construction at a later date of ofa ofa a railway lIne Cross arms sufficiently strong to carry a double set of feed wires together with the trolley wIfe and the light sires vires will be bunt built This will make the cost a great deal more than were vere the poles to be used for light wires only In the franchise asked by the Utah Light Railway company a schedule of rates tes is fixed For resIdence lights the ch change rge will be one cent per lamp hour This Is a trifle more than Salt Lake consumers are now paying The commercial current is to be determIned later In granting the franchise Sandy is called upon to make a contract for forat forat at least 75 lIghts for street lIghting purposes Each of these is to cost the city if the city furnishes its own replacing lamps If the company is called upon to furnish new lamps for those burned out the rate will be per lamp r |