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Show STREET CAR BAILS. The rail that is used by the street car company in Salt Lake will have to be replaced sooner or later with one that Is adapted to paved streets. The best rail anywhere iu use is a flat-topped rail, laid even, with the pavement, containing con-taining a groove about seven-eighths of an inch iu width and of the same depth This groove is too narrow to entrap the tire of any wheel, and tho rail otters no interference with tho passage of vehicles ve-hicles on or across it. This form of rail is generally used in Paris, Berlin, Ber-lin, Loudon and " iu nearly all American cities having paved streets, Tho only objection any company. com-pany. can reasonable offer to. tho adoption adop-tion of the flat grooved rail is a slightly iuereased first cost. In the end, how-over, how-over, it is more economical because of tho reduced cost of maintenance aud the greater case with which repairs can bo made. In all extensions of tho lines of tho old street car company as well ' as upon tho tracks of all now; roafls, on streets likely to be paved, no other rail than tho flat rail should bo permitted, Tho city couucil should at once regulate this matter, and also provide that when the streets upon which there aro now railroad tracks aro paved, tho old T rail shall be replaced with the flat ru'l. |