Show WOWT BUILD TO OGDEN I I I Valley Electric Road Forfeits its Franchise jI j I i I DIDNT BEGIN WORK ON TIME I Project Pell Through on Account of j j f Failure to Acquire the Bamberger LineTwo Roads Paralleling Each j j I Other So Near Together Wouldnt I F I Pay Fniluro to Begin Work by August 4th Acts as a Forfeiture of the Franchise Granted by tho J City Council I II i I L i i I The proposed Suit Lake Valley Electric Elec-tric railroad between Salt Lake and Ogden will not be built at least not at present Engineer Gibbs says the company was desirous of making an arrangement to buy the Salt Lake Ogden road which runs to the Lngodn but failed to induce Simon Bamberger I and the other owners of the Lagoon I road to part with the property Tho prospect of the proposed electric road I II being a paying investment with the Lagoon road paralleling it and making practically the same stops for half the I distance was not thought such as to warrant capitalists In putting their I money Into It and the project has been I abandoned for the present If the road is 1 built In the future It will have to be under another franchise for the portion of it within the city limits The franchise fran-chise granted the company by the City Council to lay a track and operate its cars on First West street from Third South street north to the city limits required work to be begun by August 4th and to be prosecuted continuously to completion within a year The failure fail-ure to begin work on or before August 4th acts as a forfeiture of the franchise fran-chise The project Is therefore all off for the present WASHOUTS IN MONTANA Cloudburst Damages the North rn Pacific Helena Mont Aug 12The present delay along the Yellowstone river between be-tween Glendive and Billings on the Northern Pacific railway Is the worst known In this section Two steel bridges were wrecked and about twelve fills washed out by a sudden rise of water caused by cloudbursts Five westbound passenger trains are waiting for the breaks to be repaired The coast limited of Friday eastbound transferred passengers with a westbound west-bound special today Railroad men are of the opinIon that It will take until about Wednesday to get the track In shape for the through traffic UNION DEPOT FOB BUTTE President Hill of the Great Northern Discusses Project TRIBUNE SPECIAL Butte Mont Aug 12 James Hill president of the Great Northern was in the city today and received a committee com-mittee from the Butte Business tens association to discuss a union depot project Mr Hill agreed that the city needed one and promised to use his best efforts to have the dfferent roads join In building one He said there was no State In the West In which he had greater confidence than In Montana but urged the business men of the State lo labor with Congress for the passage of the national Irrigation law I He said H H Rogers of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated company had already urged tho union depot matter upon his notice and had furnished him with facts relative astonished to railroad him business at Butte that |