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Show Motor Lino to Brighton and Kl Dorado. Salt Lake Herald. An important event occurred yesterday yester-day iu the inauguration of a motor line that has for its terminus El Dorado. The line passes through a territory at present inaccessible to any railroad, and will bring into the market a great deal of valuable property. Tho improvement im-provement is not only a gain to the owners of the addition direct, but indirectly indi-rectly it is a benefit to the entire city. Yesterday afternoon Messrs. Parsons and Pembroke, members fo the city council, together with a number of citi-zeus citi-zeus aud business mcu, and a Herald reporter, made a trip on the motor, at tho invitation of T. A. Davis, owner Of Tim Kykning Ti.mks, president of the motor lino company. In charge of the "llyer" wero Messrs. Wilkes aud Smith, the contractors. The combination motor aud passenger ear is similar to those in use on tho car lines of Ogdcn, where it was purchased. It is quite commodious and will seat as many uas- sengers as the large electric street cars. Considering that the road bed is new, it rides very smoothly, Hie track being well laid. Tho motor line connects with the electric street car line on Main street and Seventh South, runs west to Second AY est aud then south to Tenth street, on which street il continues its way towards Brighton, Garden cily and El Dorado. At pres.ml the track is oulv laid to Tenth South, and the crossing not being iu the ride is not of long duration, dur-ation, but by Wednesday they expect to ruu to the river at George . Q. Cannon's farm. The road is graded grad-ed to F.l Dorado and the ties distributed dis-tributed to Brighton, aud it will be but a short time until the motor will bo running to El Dorado, making trips each way hourly, leaving El Dorado Do-rado on the half hour and tho city on the hour mark. Another motor passenger car will be purchased, and the company will havo a heavier motor fov hauling freight. The motors are built for hauling" an extra coach, and should the travel justify jus-tify this, additional service will be made. Besides T. A. Davis, the company includes in-cludes J. G. Jacobs, the vice president; B. A. M. Froiseth, secretary; Charles A. Desky. F.d Senior, Mr. A.'j. Dotlon, and a great many other persons interested inter-ested in additions aud acreage along tha rn 1 1 1 p |