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Show THE CITY DADS 0, K. The Deep Greek Eailroad to be Bail Within Eighteen . . Minths. ALL HANDS HAPPY AND JOYPUL. The FianohiBe is Granted Despite a Pile ' -l if Petitions Against the ' V Enterprise.' ; ' . The council chamber was full of citizens last night who were interested in the Deep Creek railroad franchise. The rpfriilur lmsinnsa nf t.hn nitv Horlc drovements will attend to this. The Utah Central railroad put a new coat on an old franchise by asking permission per-mission for right of way on Fourth East to a junction with North, thence to a to. a junction with Ninth North. A protest signed by 200 citizens not favorable to the granting of the Deep Creek franchise was read. The signers claim that the impropriety of establish-a establish-a railroad belt between this city and Liberty park needs no lengthy argument. argu-ment. The park and Its vicinity is a favorite resort, and with railroads between be-tween the city and the park there is constant danger to life and limb. This was followed by another protest signed by twenty-five citizens who view with some apprehension the purpose of allowing a railroad to pass between the residence portion of the city and Liberty Lib-erty park. The Fort Douglas line that now runs on Eighth South street has ions hdd been Bled to the construction of sewers in district No. 2. The report of the city engineer that $92.28 was due Elias Morris for cement work on conduits was filed. The engineer en-gineer recommended that a system of screws be adopted to exclude sediment from the water works was adopted. The street committee to whom the petition of E. B. Wicks was referred, asking that a sidewalk be laid on both sides of Second South street, between First Ertst an Thud East, recommended the same be granted and nagging be used. This was adopted. The city engineer en-gineer submitted a plat of the Thorn subdivision and asked authority to approve ap-prove the same, which was granted. The report on the committee on finance fin-ance which recommended that $1)00,000 of the city bones be sold was adopted. The bonds to be advertised for thirty days and the city treasurer to have a statement of the city's financial condition con-dition printed. The same committee recommend the citv treasurer be au- of the default or misconduct ot said railway company, or which mav aocrue by reanou oi any accident or injury which may occur In or by reason of the construction or operation of said railroad; and to lnde nntfy and repay said citv fur any loss, eoet or expense, or iliimi:e of any kind which may I sunt:ilucd by ieaan o' any such default, misconduct, acclilcnt or danger, and It any Judgement for rtatnnga for any loss, default, misconduct, accident or Injury In-jury shall lie recovered a;iilnt said citv, the recovery thereof and the judgement thcrelor shall be Uual as between said city and snld grantees, their successors and assign, and conclusive an to the liability ot the latter to the former. Tenth. The construction of Md railway to commence within ninety days from tho pai--s.tgenf this ordinance, and said railway shall be completed and the same equipped In ttrnt -elans maimer, and cars running thereon from the city limits wet to the Deep Creek mining district within eighteen mouths alt t the pas-&H"e pas-&H"e of thts ordinance. That whenever the City council shaH and It neces ary or desli able to grant to any other steam railroad o nnpnuy a franchise over any ot the streets herein grunted the grantees herein shall allow runntnT arrangements over grantee's tracks, other companies paying their proportion of construction and maintaining salt! track. ' Kec. . That t lis franchise Is granted for the full term of twenty years from and alter th was transacted before the subject in question bobbed to the suaface. For almost two hours men interested in the Deep Creek scheme sat in different parts of the room and were unconcerned about what they heard until the bill re-. re-. specting the enterprise was read. Prior -.to this, however, the kickers had filed their protests, and it is probable that they awake this morning each with a bad taste in his moutb. The ordinance granting a franchise to James H. Bacon was read and . amended and reread until it had the appearance ap-pearance of a piece of crazy , patch work. But it held water, all the same, and on its passage it received 9 yeas and 0 nays, : and then the room was 1 filled with applause and the large ma- 4oTi fir r9 rtif ltyana snnvtarl emiliia - greauy depredated the value of realty abutting thereon, and is a serious barrier bar-rier to ladies and children driving their own conveyances to the park. It is a question of but a few years when all the railroads must run to a union depot, which will of necessity be located at some point between Third West street and the Jordan river. ' The petitioners deemed it unwise to grant without consideration con-sideration the old fort block which they believe to be worth half a million dollars. dol-lars. Then the Rio Grande Western had a say and filed the following: Sam Lake Crrr, Utah, Oct, 17, 1890.-TO the Honorable Mayor and Council, Salt Lake City GFNFLEMtlf. The Rio Grande Weftarn Radway company respectfully represent to your honorable body that prior to constructing their railway to Salt Lake City, It purchafed, in addition to other lands, blocks numbered 38 and 37, bounded by Fifth ard Sixth West and Second and Fourth South street In Salt Lake City, on which it has since located its station. thorized to appoint a deputy nl a salary of $100 per month, and that the office of collector of licenses be abolished, which was adopted. The following ordinance granting a franchise to James XI. Bacon for the Deep Creek railroad was read and adopted: - , An ordinance granting a right of way through certain streets of Salt Lake City for a railroad, rail-road, to James H. Bacon, his successors a:id assigns. Section 1. He It ordained hy tho Citv Council of Bait Lake City, that Jemes H. iiaccn. his successors and assigns, ha ve the ant hority and consent of the City Council, and the permission permis-sion Ib hereby gruntsd, to ocn-struct and operate a single track, standard gauge railroad-, together to-gether with all the necessary switch s for the accommodation of Sild road, ti propel thereof cars by steam power, on the following streets of said city: Commencing at the eastern city limits on Tenth or Roper street ; thence running west to the city canal; thence northwest aim? the ea.it bank of said canal to Eighth South street : thence wett along said Eighth South str.wt to . tw. ..I... 1ln,t. ...A t ...A'. . 1. .- . - . I passage of this ordinance. 8 ic X That If the grantees, the'r aucressora and assigns, shall fall to keep ai d perform all t!ie stipulations of this ordinance, or snail fall or letuse to comply with all the rulos, resula-tl resula-tl n a d ordinances of Salt Lake city relating tornllMivds. and th running of the same within with-in the city limits, wh eh are n w enacted or whlcq shall hereinaiter be ensrthl, then the oily council, after sixty (Sill days nolle, and on failure on the part of sM grantees to provide pro-vide a reim dy or make ait'sfactory arrnn cement ce-ment therefor, mav. by a mijorlty vote, declare the privileges hrrdn grunted lorfelt.d unJ proceed to take possession of sa'd rod and control the same as If this ordinance had not been passed. Bee. 4. If this grant, with the terms a-td conditions herein appepdel, bo not tewpted In writing by the grantors within sixty nays alter the passage of this ordinance, the same shall be void and of no effect. Mr. Bacon thanked the council for their kindness and said that he would endeavor to carry' out the enterprise soon as possible. The ordinance for dividing Salt Luke City into municipal jVards was doforred ior out) wee. .... Councilman Parsons offered tho following fol-lowing resolution, which was adopted: Be it resolved, That ah much of the work of excavating and back Piling for sewers In district dis-trict No. Das In the oplnlo:i of the city engineer engi-neer can be profitably dune at this season, lie done by contract under the supervision oi ths board ot public works. The city recorder jtjrns authorized to publish notice of Intention to lav side-walks-tin both shfiJjf , Second South street and (lagging be used. An appropriation of $6000 was granted C. B. Jack for ft lot on Second West street as a site for engine house No. a. Mr. Bacon's acceptance of the franchise fran-chise granted him was tiled. The following appropriations were made: Kilns Morris I MM Sierra Nevada Lumber company Ul 10 H. Ulnwoodey f , (. in TiillldgeAOo .'. iw.rt) Mount AGrlffln S'll.O) C. H. Jack for V. J. Hubbard, oiOJ.UO Adjourned for oneweek. tne city limits on the west, w.t i the right of way for a spur from the Intel sxitlon of Eighth South and Thlid West north to Third South street on the following conditions, to-wit : Provided, Pro-vided, that whenever any of the streets along the said roadway shall be paved, then s ild grantees, their successors and assigns shall pave their tracks with the same material with whl( h said street Is paved. Flint. That all tracks laid by Slid grantees shall be In the center nf the streets, unless otherwise dlreoted by the city council, and In such manner as may be spproved by the city council. , , Second. That all of said railway tracks shall be laid upon, and conform to the established estab-lished grade of the reveral streets upon which they run, and If said grade Is sfterward changed by order of the city council, said grantees shall at thalr own expense change the track to confOTO to the nmo, and shall keep the road ballasted with gravel to within one and one-half lncb of the top of th rails. Third. That said grantees shall gravel and maintain In good condition at the established grade, the streets along whl h the truck runs for a distance of twenty Kit on each side of the outer rails, subject to the approval of the supervisor of streets. Said Improvement to be made as follows! One-half within one year, ard the other half within eighteen months after the commencement of t le building of said road. - Fourth. Said grantees shall put in and maintain main-tain plank crossings between t'le rails and one foot on th outside of the outer rails on all of the principal thorough fares througii which Raid railroad may run; and on all otn.-r streets Intersecting tho line of the road plunk crossings cross-ings shall be put In and m tint lined forly-elght feet long in the center and eight feet long in a line with each aidewalk thereof, the whole w.dth inside, and one foot on the outside of the rails on each side of the track, ani the top surface sur-face of S ild pi inks shall be on a level with the top of the rails. Fifth. That said track shall be laid and the road operated so as to cause no impediment to the common and ordinary use of said streets upon which It la laid. And std grantees shall comply with the directions of sild city In the construction of the line a-id the operation of the same within the limits of said city. Sixth. The rate of speed at which trains, engines, en-gines, or cars shall be run through said city, shall not exceed eight miles per hour. And no train or car shall be run on said railway without with-out a locomotive engine attached thereto. Seventh. Good and suffle'ent boxes to convey water shall belaid and maintained In good condition con-dition at the expense of aald grantees, at all water ditches crossed by said ra'lway, so as to admit ot the free passage of water. Eighth. If engines, ti alus or cars are run at night a red light shall bo kept In aeonrplcnous place thereon, and a whits light shall be placed noun the front of such engine, car or train. Ninth. Said city of Salt Lake shall In no way be liable or resposs b'.e for any accident or damage that may occur oa said road by reason of the default or mlaconluct of said railway company or Its employees. And tho said grantees, their successors and assigns, covenant cove-nant and agree to save the said city harmless from and against any liability, loss, cost or expense or damag of any nature -arising out jva mj vi wiMiivuv j(uiiiuu niuitoof ' The councilmen present were Armstrong, Arm-strong, Anderson, Cohn, Hall, Heath, Karrick, Spafford, Parsons and Wosten-holme, Wosten-holme, and including Mayor Scott they all deserved to be kissed by the prettiest pretti-est girl in Salt Lake. The following business was done by the council, and the majority of the f petitions jyere unloaded on the i -committees I ,' ' : ;f V t'i Arthur Treween et al. asks for a bridge across City creek at Seventh , West and North Temple. ' A. M. Wilson longs to be a policeman. police-man. - , F. W. Madsen et al. wants a crossing on First South, opposite Commercial street. James Bregan wants to erect a fruit stand at Cunnington's corner. P. Christiansen prays for a free license li-cense to peddle fish. The Salt Lake City railroad has filed Kn acceptance of the franchise which Was granted the 29d of last September. John Johnson wants to lease the east half of northeast quarter of section 15, township 1, range 1 east, for $500 worth of work per year. - On account of being a widow Harriet Fernster wants a merchant's license for One year. The Orphans Home and Day Nursery association wants the council to petition peti-tion the Utah..: Commission to allow them the use of two wings. of the Industrial Indus-trial Home, the association to pay rent. Councilman Cohn's resolution directed the recorder to address a letter to fbe board of control of the home, requesting request-ing it to grant the desire of the petitioners. peti-tioners. : ..,-, , I A petition from the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone - company states, the overhead trolly system used by the - street railway system is dangerous and interferes with the (telephone wires, and asks that the railroad people use . guarded wires,. The committee onim- engtne hoimes, and made the necessary Improvements Im-provements to accommodate the business of Ihs city In connection with their rallwav, It ha also made plans ot railway tracks, as shown on the accompanying map, and has constructed con-structed and laid fifteen railway tracks and sidings, and will require ten more, in all twenty-five tracks on said blocks, extending across Third South street, and that to do the necessary station work, locomotives, trains and cars are constantly pisslrg across Third Bouth street during the day and portions of the night, and that a railway passing on Third Smith Btreet between said blocks, at grade, would be exosedlngiy dangerous In operating, and unjust to th's company; it therefore respectfully res-pectfully but earnestly protests against the government of Salt Lake City granting to any railway company the right to construct and operate a railway and crnsi Its tracks at grade on Third South street In Salt Lake City. Yours respectfully. A. E. Wf LBV, Superintendent. Lawyer R. Harkness, attorney for the Rio Grande Western filed a petition in addition to the statement of the superintendent. super-intendent. By the refusal of a right of way northerly from Second South on Fifth West the company has gone to a big expense in moving and changing lis tracks and station buildings to accomodate accom-odate a standard gauge and in grading up the ground. The company asks that its property rights in its railway yard be reasonably protected and that franchises fran-chises crossing its yard at grade should not be granted unless a matter of absolute abso-lute necessity. Mayor Scott said the Jordan and Salt Lake City canal, where it ran through the city, is in a foul and filthy condition, condi-tion, i He suggested the committee on canal obtain estimates as to cost of a pipe or brick conduit for carrying the water. Recorder Hyams reported the lists and plats pertaining to local assessments, assess-ments, for water main extensions on the following streets bad remained on file in his office for ten days: From the centre of Third and Fourth South, on Twelfth East, to Fourth South, thence west one and one-half blocks. From the centre of Fourth and Fifth South, on Eighth East, south to the centre cen-tre of Seventh and Eighth South. . On First South, between West Temple Tem-ple and First West streets. On Sixth East street, between First and Second South. The assessments were confirmed The recorder reported that no object- |