Show I RIO GRANDE TO ASK DEPOT FRANCHISE OF COUNCIL t Official Announcement Is Made of Proposed Exy Ex Expenditure ii y f of to t Hand Handsome meP Passenger Station Is Promised Shoos Shoes Are to Be En Enlarged Ene Enlarged e j arged and Yardage Facilities Increased T THE next meeting of oC the city A AT council the Rio Bio Grand Western W Will ill apply for tor a franchise e permit permitting ting tini the building of ot a new passenger station additions to its shops OOS and an n Increase In its yardage facilities the whole to cost not less ieee than and probably over Official announcement of ot o UtI fact tact vas as ae made yesterday ye by General Gener l Su Superintendent J 1 H Young who toa h rep represented resented the Rio Grande in the neo negotiations with the Oregon Olson Short abort Line LI which led to a settlement of the depot and franchise e controversy The plans plane are fire in general as outlined in The Her Herald aid ald ld yesterday Ye According to Mr Young Toune the intention Intention tion is to erect er ct a magnificent passenger ger ncr station on Fourth West We t street streit be bet t w een Second and Fourth South streets At a coat cost of at least Perm Permission sion flon will ill be asked to close cloe Third South treet making the depot entrance face that street In part compensation a d street is hi to be opened between Third and Fourth West running from Second South to Fourth South streets for the accommodation co Bon of If traffic thus thai diverted To the Shops The Th present r nt shops are to be b enlarged t o nearly double the present size t at a acost emit cost of ot At present prent the em emoy oy of or the shops silo number BOO and ad the monthly payroll is The number of or is Ic to be rallied raised to MO toO with witha a proportionate increase in the payroll The Th old passenger station at Second South and Sixth West streets is I to be and the entire space between fifth and Sixth West streets from First to t Tenth South streets treet Is to to be b used for nr freight yard The re rearrange rea arrange a mem or of the freight terminal will vill cost ost st ijO S G New will coit ST Double n uhl are art to be putt put pU In on oti Fourth West Vest street from Ninth South to Fifth Firth North street Immense oal oat f trestles of oC tons tone capacity I are nrc r to In br be erected south of ot Sixth South street t along the track More lore and an t H is i to be purchased ware are P built turntables put pet in and other expenditures made which will III bring bri the total cost up to the Ole A figures reil previously stated I Great Sums Sum to be Spent 1 Granted that the Oregon Short Line San Ran Pedro Pedr Los ro Angeles Angelee ft Salt gait Lake Grande Western We all carry out their th lr present plans plane for Increasing depot and terminal facilities In hi Salt Lake not lea ed eu than titan n will be spent by these the e railroad companies comme in the city The Tile Improvement in eat eath h case cam mean additional with Mth large arge pay rolls roDs to pour money mODe ft steadily adil into the channels of trade it It If i expected that the Western Pa Pacific dOe and the Denver Northwestern Jb will soon Boon be bt heard hard from in this thie onne The Western Pacific will occupy the same Mme station as a the Rio Grande rande Western but it wUl will need Deed ad additional additional shop chop and yard facilities re requiring quiring heavy heay expenditures The plans f the th Moffat M off at road if I they are formu formulated are being kept quiet but no I doubt is I felt that this thie line will have I I in Salt Lake as a well as ac adequate j I II p i and freight ret terminals I I All f r this leaving the Coos COOl Bay Rose burg Salt Lake road out of the ques tion would mean the expenditure of at 1 rl least ast another in Salt Lake a fact which I Ia arousing the UIe reel real estate eale ate spec spee speculators In this Ut and other cities clUes Denver Dener Battle attle and Los ro Angeles real estate e tate spec t alaton are understood to be keeping tab tabon tabon I on these railroad moves and to be quietly picking up vp property 7 in Salt Lake Work to Begin Soon Work Wo t on the tIN new depot shoos hopa s and yards 7 will begin baum AS ne soon MOn as practicable le after the council grants PaUl the franchise asked ed saM said Ma M Young Toeing yesterday The plans for lorL the ue shops pIa are corn com They are ae to be thoroughly mod modern modera era ern hi b every respect electrIcity U Is to be the and nd Dd each ch machine e is IsI to have haye a motor of Its own are to be provided for tor the building of I freight cars can and aDd to do 40 practically all the regular rental work of ot railroad d shops Mope The Th plans Ians for fOt the tho depot are an not sa t tI far f along but none other than Mr itt Gould Is the tile authority for tor the t statement that I when ft K Is built It win VIR be a credit to Salt Lab Lak The freight yards yar will wll wil be remodeled remodeled clod and aDd the capacity more than doubled The Industrial tracks and aad the warehouses I will be on OD Fifth West street treet the passenger I ger business bul being belag done on Fourth West Veat street The coal trestles treaties will be put in not I because of any aDy direct t profit to the th rail railroad railroad railroad road company but to give ve a better seiw rv service I ice to coal consumers During Durin th t tho e sum MIm summer MImI mar mer the Ule coal will be hauled to Salt Jt Lake Lak and lid stored berg ber bere relieving the usual win winter winter I ter tax In the coal cost traffic Toward Future The me Rio Orande Is hi looking toward the tha future and Dd is preparing to take care of a greatly atly business buha consequent upon the Ute expected growth or of the city the development of the surrounding country and the Increase in through traffic A cording to the present plans plana the thi pee pas passenger train trains of oi the Rio Blo Grande GraDel ate are to toI I cone COme in over the tile present prent line Une from the I south BOuth until the tile city limits are reached Thence a right of way ay ia is to be purchased I or Os Condemned diagonally aeries Fountain Place subdivision to Ninth South aw a ned Fourth West streets The I line will continue north on Fourth West street to the th pa tr at Third South street The double track will m con oon continue north on Fourth West t street to Fifth North These a spur will Win cross cr the Oregon Short Line Une tracks tra ka continuing o to the north and over ovar the e t IAn Lin Line tracks wit Ith the present nt North irth Salt Bait T Lake ake Quarry spur pur of the tb Rio Grande Grandt The Theat T Tm Th at m mir in will northwesterly su keep k Ins ing w wt west t of oC th U Short Line Li tracks cad lad ladonn d connecting onn with tile tue reent we sent main line lne hear near Seventh street As a part of or the e plan lan for tor the thc Increase of or KM tIM t No he M h company will ask that the t city vacate tho wet t half balf of Fifth nb West street between Sec See Second ond on nij end nd Ninth tnt ft nth Ib at Ift t jn antl l the th It st hal haK i Wast street t between Sixth South oath streets Roads Are in Harmony Th ThC franchise to be a asked ked by the tb Rio Grande Orande in ta no rio way w conflicts with that al already ready requested eQuated by the Oregon Oreon Short Une An Au nt t has b been reached r hed T by y which th the r two while acting independently Independently fI are iu hi haj eny y This is a result of It negotiation W have be been on ll far fer 61 S J 1 H To ti tiet et T and w H R ft the Snort Short Line lAne The th a spur running to f the i lime Qu to lt North Salt kIt lAke Lake Lak I which crosses tie the Short Line Une traca at Ninth North street This would Inter I fare far greatly Uy with the tIN proposed n nw new w yards yam and shops shop eh of th te Short Line As a part of the agreement the Rio Grande abandons abandon this crossing er obtaining access to the spur by a crossing at Fifth North street and the use of or the Short Line spur running conning from this point as a previously explained In return turn for this the Oregon Short Line Une has ba agreed to relinquish to the Rio Grande Grand iti It it franchise rights for a track on the east flast side de of or Fourth West street thus thUd giving the th latter road untrammeled sees access to its 1111 depot site alte Arrangements have also been made for joint to tot tot tb t plant of the American Smelting A Ii Re He fining company at Murray Friend Friendly y lyn negotiations c r having vI proceeded successfully thus far there h are some som who believe they may go still stUl further and andall alt all the roads may Join in the erection of ofa Ofa ofa a union station handsomer and more ex ax expensive pensive than any so tar far planned |