Show A FRANCHISE TANGLE Promoters of Electric Railway Line Object to Demands of I Power Company Comp ny There is a strong tron probability that Mr r Matson and an Kichar i cher may mal not desire to accept accent a ePt the franchise for an electric road up Ogden canyon in the form which the commissioners are ready to pass it The board Is IB to as assemble assemble assemble this morning and will puss pass I such an ordinance as the applicants wish excepting that certain conces concessions concessions concessions are to be guaranteed to the Utah Light Power company and these concessions may prove fatal to the en enterprise enterprise An understanding had been reached between the Utah h Light Power local representatives and the applicants for the franchise but still further guarantees it is un understood will be insisted on by Gen General General General eral Manager Campbell of ot the Utah Light Power people and this may prove fatal to the plans of Matson and Kircher who are depend dependent ent largely larget on eastern capital for their financial backing of oC this enterprise The Utah Light Power company compan which controls the situation w wishes every eyed guarantee that the proposed road will not In any way interfere with the 1 j proposed dam and reservoir which this j company compan wishes to see established es in inthe inthe I I the lower part of Ogden canyon I I Unless this dam is built the electric road will fork tork at the creamery If the dam dani Is built there will be forty feet reet I of water where the creamery cr amery now stands and the road rood project will ore sent a set of engineering problems al altogether a together different The applicants say sa they are willing to go 0 ahead ah ea d with ith the th e construction of o the t th line jine whether the dam is built bune or of not but tHey to I I know whether the dam Is to be built bunt or not before they the begin The power people want the privilege of building g their dam and reservoir at any tube time now or in the future and the negotiations received a rude jolt when this decision of the manager be became became became came known k t Both Mr Ir Matson and Mr Kircher state that they alone a are responsible for the application for a franchise and that the Ogden Rapid Transit com corn comI I pany Is in no TV wa way ay concerned in the I I affair |