Show AWARD fRANCHISE TO lE GRAND YOUNG County Commissioners Give Formal Permission for Pro Proposed Proposed ro posed Electric Line Lioe jue Lt 1 rand irand Young yesterday received a franchise from the board ot of county commissioners for his proposed electric railroad to connect the Emigration canyon road with Holliday The line lino will start at the Emigration canyon line at first East street run south to Thirteenth South east to Twenty eighth East street and thence south to Holliday This will connect Emigration Emigration Emigration tion and Big Cottonwood canyons canyon and the line will be the first interurban line In Salt Lake county Franchises have come up for other railways such as E O 0 Howard and Jesse Knight but both interests have done nothing on the matter for several weeks S The franchise provides that It must be accepted within thirty days that work must begin within one year and andS I that the line must be completed within S two years Otherwise the franchise will become void The county will get 10 a year for each passenger car and 5 for each freight car operated over the line Une One of the purposes of the line Une ac no according accordIng cording to Mr Young is to carry arry stone from the Emigration canyon quarries to the Rio Grande railroad as a it comes out of Parleys canyon In the past the stone has been brought from the quarries quarries I ries ties to the yards of the company on Fifth South and Thirteenth East streets where it has been loaded onto wagons and carried to the railroad yards Under the new arrangement it is proposed to ship much more stone from the th quarries and most of the cars on the new line will be to carry the rock to the railroad tracks Switches will be constructed by both companies at the Junction for the rocks There are a number of residences springing up along the east bench right at the base of the Wasatch mountains and it is said paId these will be depended upon for the tha passenger traffic as well as citizens of Holliday Wishing to come to Salt Lake It is declared that the building of the railroad will wiIl induce many people to build homes along the new line though for the present the chief purpose will be the advantages In the handling of rock from the tion canyon quarries |