OCR Text |
Show A ROAD TO DEEP CREEK- J The Money U all I rnrldrrt -lh Telltloo to the Council. Mr. James Bacon filed with the city recorder today to be presented to the city council next Tuesday evening the following petition. To th Honorable Mayor and ts City Council Coun-cil of Salt Late tiKT; bwbk: Y ur petitioner petition-er respectfully states to your annirsMe tx J that while east recently h n-.'g.t atcd with purchasers o! bonds there to Like the rimis and furnish t'i money to bu:M aud, equ p a standard gt railroad from Sail Lake City, Utah, to De. pi'reek neartheti-it line Nevada, a distance 01 about nv miles, ;-o a to make it complete In ail re?pets Bid a tlrst cans road, which neitottott n was upon ccrtulu rouditlous to to compiled with by till city an 1 others. One of which conditions la to have t.ie free rtKht-nf-way over the t.tnv.no Suit Lake City a id free terminal facilities- It had boi n stated to y ur pet Hi n r by c.tt.ens of Salt L;.ke City that your honorable booy would cratit free right-of-way over thn streets and a W years lease of block W, pl.. A, of said city, known as the "Old Fort," or Pioneer block, for the nominal rntat of t to eacouiaee the bull. mm ot said raiiro.ul, nnd your petltli ner so represented tlw facts to the bond purchasers. Your p'tltioner therefore there-fore prays thit your honorai'lo b ty gr.u.t unto him a rlnht of way for the l ull.llu aud operating of n standard KU.Ke rullroad and proper switches on aud ov-r the following named streets, to wit: Conimenolni- at the easterly lttnlta of Salt Lake city, Utiih, on Tenth South, or Koper slnet which If th-street tha". lies Just south ami adjoining Lib r.y Park), thence went to mwhiiI Wci-t street, thence uort'i ;ouda ross Fourth South street at or near t!ie aouthea-t corner of said t'!-ck -W. tlience irm or near the nnrthwent corner of said block -o on Third South street to the w m city limits. Your petitioner peti-tioner also prav:, th.it you give him a leas, for Mil years (or the coiiider:itKin of l for block AH. plat A, Suit I .uke iiy simcy to be used for deHt and rillro-.id punoes- The foregoing franchise and leae to b granbsl upon the express ex-press condition that your petitioner ami bis associates shall eonwtm-t a standard gauge railroad from said bits In a w e-t-rly direction direc-tion to Deep Creek at or near the eait line of Nevada vl!!n eighteen months irum the granting of said Inuch'se and lease. Your petitioner (urtl e- stales that most of the conditions necessarv to assure fie will-pletlou will-pletlou of said railroad, in fact all of aiir Importance except thotie herein asked for, have since your istltluner's n turn been compiled with; and ti nt Immediately upon your honorable body graui ing this petition peti-tion vour p 'tltioner will win h.s friend" to send t lelr consulting engineer ami lo.o; over the enterprise, sud as soon as approve I active coiisttiK tmn of siitd railn ad lll he coin nicncfit, mid not later thau sixty days from the granllnir ol the prayer of this petition. And your petitioner will ever pray, ft Jamns if. Uacon. Mr. liacon states that tint money is provided to build and equip wilh the latest and best equipment, a lirsi -class road and that as toon as this 1(15 miles is comp'eled, they wodld build to Evnnston, Wyoming., ant to the coal fields east of here. That the company must have eoal for its own use anil for supplying the citizens along its lino and thai they had a contract by which they can control the Wyoming, Salt Lako and California railroad company's rights of wav, coal lields etc., whou his company wanted them. |